GOTCHA DAY!

I decided to make today our "Gotcha Day".  For those not familiar with what this is, this is a day in the adoption process that you select as your special day when the child becomes officially part of your forever family.  Some people choose their court date, some the orphanage pickup day, some the embassy interview day. I chose Embassy day, which is today!

We went to the embassy and there were about 15 other families there waiting for their interviews as well.  We were meeting each other and chatting about our adoption process stories.  The children being adopted ranged from 10 yrs old to 9 months old.  The parents were from all over the country: San Diego, Philadelphia, Chicago, Kansas City to name a few.  Christian sat there for about 15 minutes before he started getting antsy.  He was getting vocal then wanted to get down off the chair and it progressed from there. So I broke out the puff snacks to bribe him to stay quiet like all the other children were.  An 18 mo. old girl beside us spied the puff snacks and wanted them. The Mom was like, "oh no", and had to get her own puff snacks out.....oops!  At this point, it's every parent for themselves :)  Just kidding.

So now I have a huge packet of the office adoption papers, his passport and we are off tomorrow to the airport to head back to the U.S.!!!
~Amy