Gotcha Day, Embassy Day

What a great morning. We started at 830am when we walked over to the care center and picked up our kids. We’d become accustomed to taking them to the play room and hanging out. Holt’s only directions were to pick up kids. So we stuck around a few minutes, chatted with the nurses, met Sister Martha, and eventually left with our precious children. We chose to bring Asfaw home in the clothes he was wearing so that he would have something to call his own. We brought him back to the hotel and he was finally ours!!! Before we even made it up to our hotel room, Asfaw-Judah had pooped through his diaper and all 3 layers of clothes. This is going to be fun. Poor kiddo.

Ryan stayed with Asfaw for naptime while I ran to the grocery store to buy him some diapers that actually fit (Holt said he was 35 lbs, he’s more like 25) and stopped at the bead shop which is just across the bridge/highway. We had an early lunch, dressed him in a button up shirt and headed to the embassy. We were there for about 3 hours total unlike some other families who had morning appointments that had still not be attended to. Our little Asfaw-Judah did great. He’s such a ham! We were called individually to head upstairs to our appointment. It was similar to walking up to a bank teller with a glass divider. The nice lady asked us a few questions related to Asfaw’s history, asked us to sign some paperwork, handed us his new birth certificate and sent us on our merry way. It was interesting driving down the street with a child in my lap in the front seat of Tsegaw’s van. I loved it… well all of it except the smog.

We got back to the hotel and played upstairs a few minutes with our giggly son before taking him downstairs for supper. I don’t think he ate much but he downed about 20 ounces of peach tea. He’s a drinker and he loves his liquids. Since the power was off and it was overcast, it made for an early night. Judah, when put in his crib, cried for about 5 minutes then sat up and watched us for another few minutes before he lay down and went right to sleep. Hallelujah and thank you Lord for his transition so far!