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This blog began as we documented our adoption of our third child, Caleb. It is now an eclectic journal of our often amusing lifestyle with 4 young children.

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9/24/08

Re-Adoption Day! Hip Hip Hooray!!!

Yesterday was readoption day. The day where we appeared to in court to have the adoption finalized, have Caleb's name changed to Caleb, and things like that. It's a huge milestone in the adoption because it really signifies the beginning of the end of the paperwork. We now will get a Wisconsin Birth Certificate for Caleb, naming us as the parents. We then can finally get him his Social Security Card, allowing us to open up his bank account, start his college savings account, and of course, have another tax deduction (insert humor, we obviously didn't adopt for the tax deduction!). What the kids think the most important part is that Caleb is now officially, completely part of our family. He is OURS and we are HIS. FINALLY, a family of 6. Here are some pictures. (Caution - have you ever tried getting your picture taken with 4 kids? What a nightmare. I think each kid is looking at the camera in one of the pictures, certainly not all of them!!!!!):

With the judge. His granddaughter, coincidentally, is adopted from Guatemala, and he shared pictures of her after we were done.


Also with the judge. Note that the eldest two kids are starting to get a little goofy!

A family of 6. Who'd of thought we'd ever be this lucky!
We were fortunate enough to have our parents (and one grandparent) come for the readoption. In this picture are Kris' dad and grandma.
In this picture are Keith's mom and dad.
Have a great day, everyone!!!!!

7 comments:

veggiemom said...

Congrats!!! What a happy adoption milestone!
Kerri, Medina, and Ruby

Sue said...

Congrats!!!!!!

Jen said...

Congrats! You must all feel like a million bucks...no more paperwork! Your family looks wonderful! Congrats to you all!
Love,
Jeremy, Jen & the trips

Anonymous said...

yay. A great day for your whole family. Happy Family! Sayaxche friend, Ellen (we've done the paperwork, now to just file it).

Ana said...

Congratulations!!! I totally relate with the feeling of completion with the re-adoption!

Hannah said...

Congratulations!! We need to get ours done too!!

What a happy day for all of you (& us for getting to see it!!)

Your Sayaxche friend,
Hannah

Kim said...

Happy Re-adoption Day!


Caleb, 9 1/2 months

Caleb, 9 1/2 months
Here is a great picture of Caleb we took during our visit trip.

Caleb, 4 1/2 months old

Caleb, 4 1/2 months old
This is our favorite picture from the group we received with our referral.