Makenna's Adoption Finalized - YIPPEE!!!

The final piece of Makenna's adoption is officially complete.  Yippee!  For those who do not understand what this means or do not understand adoption in general, it means the state we live in recognizes our adoption. 

Why do we have to do re-finalize and go to court?  Well here are 3 reasons:

1. It erases any procedural flaws or irregularities in the foreign adoption
2. It enables us to get a birth certificate for Makenna from our state
3. It places our Ethiopian born girls on equal footing with any biologically children we have (which we don't) or any children we have adopted in the USA (which we don't have).

To celebrate our family being a foursome, Dave and I took the day off and kept the girls home from daycare.  We had hoped to do something fun in the morning but it quickly vanished.  Amazing how quick a morning can go when you are busy with breakfast, getting dressed, etc.  Dave did make pancakes and eggs for breakfast and we had one of Makenna's favorites meals, Erberts and Gerberts. 

Court was at 1:30 CST and took all of 10 minutes.  The judge was our down the street neighbor and was very sweet to us and to our girls.  Maya and Makenna did the best they could under the circumstance - no nap which they are doing as I type.  Once nap is over, we plan to spend some quality time as a family outside!

On that note - congratulations to us!  YIPPEE!