It's Official.

Today, we made the adoption official.  We went to the same government building that we did yesterday to sign the final papers and receive the official adoption certificate.  Emotions were much more relaxed than they were 24 hours before, but the event was just as important.  Q is now officially ours!!  We thank God for the blessing of Q in our lives.

The start of the first full day as an official family.  What would it bring?  Would it be as good as yesterday or would reality set in and Q regress because this was something more than just an outing?  Would see be a mommy's-girl, a daddy's-girl, or accept or reject us both?  Well she is definitely mommy's girl at this point and makes daddy work for every bit of attention (don't worry, it's what was expected);-)  She woke up at 7:30 this morning, sat up, looked around and stared at us for a few minutes.  After she was fully awake, we skyped home for the boys to see Q again. :-)  Then it was off to
breakfast.  She loves food.  She's been willing to try new things but will shake her
head no and squinches up her cute, little nose when she doesn't want or like
something. :-)

We returned to the hotel at noon having all of the official stuff done.  After lunch we needed to go shopping for some shoes and clothes that fit Q.  She fits in the 12 mo. size, but with the exception of two oufits, we brought 18 - 24 mo. clothes and the shoes we had were too big.  Rita, our social worker, went with us and we were successful in find some pants and shoes to fit.  Still need socks as we forgot to pack some for her.

Tomorrow Q turns 2, so we also ordered a cake while we were out.  We will have a small party tomorrow with the other families in our group.  What an ordeal to order a cake!  The bakery is concerned the cake will not be pretty enough.  Who cares, she's only 2!  I'm sure it will be great.

Nothing scheduled for tomorrow other than the party.  Thursday we will go the orphanage that Q was assigned to and her "finding place".  That will be very interesting to say the least.

Check out some of the photos from today.

The official certificate.

Q wearing mommy's shoes.

Q playing hide & seek.