Readoption Day! It's official :)

IT"S OFFICIAL!!!! In every way legal way possible this adorable 8 month old girl is our daughter!!!

This picture was cute too so I couldn't choose :)

And here we are officially and legally a family of 3. We have been for awhile but needed a signature and a seal to prove it I guess.

Our hearing was at 8:45am and we got there early. The hearing was over by 8:50. We started early. We put 2 hours worth of change in the parking meter having no idea how this would work and how long we would be there. It was so easy, the whole thing. We even legally changed her name and ordered 3 copies of her new birth certificate.

To celebrate here on this blog I will share with you her new official name: Annakiya (on ah key a) Yewibdar (yea' ob dar) Eileen. We call her Kiya for short. As for the blog, I will now call her Kiya. It was getting way too hard to remember to call her Peanut and well since she isn't such a Peanut anymore.

Annakiya is the name we chose for her. It is Nigerian and means 'sweet face'. Yewibdar is the name given to her by her birth mother and it means 'most beautiful one' and Eileen is also my middle name as well as my mother's middle name.

The judge was super nice and even gave Kiya a stuffed elephant dressed as a ballerina. I know this whole thing was really just a formality and one more step in the process but we couldn't be prouder today to call Kiya our daughter. Now on to getting her a Certificate of Citizenship and a Social Security number.

Stay tuned for more pics of my 8 month old little beauty.

Still waiting....

We are still waiting on the news. We should hopefully hear something tomorrow or at least this week. Hopefully...don't people know I HATE waiting. Oh well....

Peanut is such an amazing baby. She now sits up by herself and she is making new sounds every day. She also stands when assisted and this for the baby that was bearing little weight on her legs just 2 months ago. She has outgrown the 3-6 month clothing and is comfortably wearing 6-9 month stuff.

She is becoming a little picky in the food department in that her bottles need be warm and the right warm and she is not a fan of peaches or it appears apricots.

She still LOVES her sleep and sleeps 10-12 hours a night. Her random night time crying has phased out and when she does do it it is for less than 1 minute and she is back to sleep. She is still taking 3 naps a day though we are trying to phase out the 30 minute or less mid morning nap as half the time she rarely sleeps so it doesn't appear necessary.

We are 15 days away from our readoption hearing and 16 days away from officially beginning the paper chase for our son. I am working on a nickname that goes with Peanut for him.

Birthday, paperwork and Birth to 3

Today is my birthday. I am officially 33 years young and finally realizing my dreams of motherhood. I couldn't ask for a greater gift than my beautiful daughter.

I started the morning meeting with our social worker as we have more paperwork to do. We have to readopt Peanut in Wisconsin so our social worker dropped that off today. After a follow up phone call with her, I have it all filled out and just have to take it to the county court house. We are hoping to get a court date in the next 4-8 weeks. Once we are done with that we can apply for a certificate of citizenship and social security number for Peanut. And we can start the paper chase for her little brother. We would like to be back on the wait list sometime this fall since the wait for referral has gotten a lot longer we want to get a jump on it. Maybe by the time Peanut is 3 we will have her little brother home too.

After our meeting, I called the Birth to 3 program to set up an assessment for Peanut. We are a little concerned about how little weight she bears on her legs but she is getting better every day. We figured it doesn't hurt to call and see what they have to say or even offer in terms of one time or continual support. She may not qualify for additional resources but we won't know unless we have her evaluated. I am waiting for them to call me back to set up the appointment. It is great that they will come out to our house even.

You may wonder how so much has been done today, well PEANUT IS NAPPING!!! I can hardly believe it. She was up at 8am took half a bottle and was asleep again a little after 9am and has stayed asleep on her back in her crib. Could this be a sign of a regular nap time??? I sure hope so. Her naps are so all over the place right now. She is teething which isn't helping but maybe just maybe this is progress.