Well, one of them is anyway! Yesterday we received Elijah’s Certificate of Citizenship in the mail! We’ve been waiting a long time on this!! Hoping Jonah’s comes today or soon. It’s amazing how expensive one piece of paper can be!! Once we have these, we have officially completed everything for the boys’ adoption, except for their yearly post-placement reports we have to send to Ethiopia until they are 18. Enjoy the pictures of Elijah with his COC and hoping I’ll be able to put Jonah’s up soon too!
Also, I found this quote on an email I got with a list of boys who are deaf and waiting to be adopted from China. I thought this was quite fitting for our house of boys and wanted to share it with you!
“God made little boys; it seems, to answer every parent’s dreams,
For expectations are begun when God sends down a little son…
A son to teach the golden rule, to watch as he goes off to school,
To marvel at his happy face every time he wins a race…
Playing tricks and funny pranks, learning to say “please and thanks,”
…Yes, God brings parents endless pleasure when God sends little boys to treasure.”
-Author Unknown
Brooke, we just got Yordana’s CoC last week too! Isn’t it nice to have that paperwork behind us? We still want to get her a passport though, for easy ID and in case we travel up to Toronto sometime (we’re just a few hours from there). I’ve also been trying to track down a way to have her participate in a citizenship ceremony, but it was harder than I though – the USCIS doesn’t really do that for little kids, I guess, but our local county clerk’s office has been helpful in setting that up.
I love seeing your little guys and how happy they seem — I remember taking photos of them at the Thomas Center and telling them you’d be coming soon!