"He is yours"

"He is yours," is what the judge said to us on Wednesday, December 8th, 2010. I guess it is official, we are a family of five. We will have to go back in a few weeks to pick him up. It was super hard to have to leave him there. We are hoping that the wait won't be too long. The US Embassy in Ethiopia has started doing some investigations of some of the adoptions. They are trying to make sure that all of the adoptions are being done ethically, so it is a good thing. I just hope it doesn't hold up the process for us. Now that we have met our little guy, the waiting is even harder.