Registration Day

Today the adoption became official!!  They wait 24 hours after you receive your child before making it official so that parents have time to spend with their child to make sure they want to keep him/her.  Yeh right!  Not even a question for us (and I'm sure most adoptive parents).

So, we went back to the registration office to receive our official documentation.  This was the same office we were at the day before...the same office where our children's lives changed forever...the same office where these scared little babies were just dropped off into arms.  No thought is put into how this might affect the child and even re-traumatize them.  I know some of them thought they were being dropped off again to someone else.  A couple of them started crying when we entered the building...heartbreaking : (  We made a special effort to go to a different area of the big room than Piper had been in before...the play area!  Thank God she did great and even spent some time bonding (playing and laughing) with daddy:

The presentation of our legal document:

She's ours : )))))))