Not Quite Final...Yet

My big helping girl--she loves to put the silverware away And she does a great job too

All done

Having hot chocolate after playing in the snow

I love my new walker. I can get all around the kitchen. It is fun being able to get everywhere.

Yummy pizza for the first time. Savannah took this picture. You can tell Minnie Mouse is dining with us too.

I LOVE pizza

Savannah's new favorite thing to do. Watch Dora on the computer

Well, we went to court yesterday to finalize Seth's adoption--something that should have taken a half an hour took three hours with no finalization. The judge was very nice, helpful, and compassionate, but since this is so foreign to them and they are not familiar with Japanese adoptins and CT is one of 6 states that is an agency state and doesn't have any provisions for private adoptions, they are stuck as to how to approve it within the laws. We are stuck in a technicality and gray area, so the judge has to get special permission to treat this a unique case and get it signed off on by a chief justice. She said it sounds worse than it is and there isn't going to be a problem, but she needs 30 days to get it worked out and bring it in front of the Adoption Review Board. They called today to let us know they are working on it and just waiting for some return phone calls but they are very close to getting it set and we shouldn't worry. Even the judge said it is just the piece of paper she can't give us right now, but it doesn't change that we are Seth's parents and he is our son. It is just not official in CT yet and he cannot yet get citizenship, a US birth certificate, a passport, etc. So, it is just stressful, frustrating, and upsetting, but it is going to get finalized, just a month or so later than planned. So, now we have to rethink our vacation plans for March. I think we are going to head South now to Miami and the US Virgin Islands.