It’s over. He’s ours!
Thursday July 4, 2024 -Anapoima, Colombia-
We had to set an alarm last night before going to bed. This is madness! We got up, had some toast and headed into La Mesa for our court date. We got there with a bit of time to kill so we went to the church for a prayer. Peanut was business casual which means he had to wear shoes. Ok, he didn’t have to but we insisted. I was rolling him around in the stroller and the shoes kept coming off. Eventually, I looked down and he only had one and I had to backtrack to find the other one. I finally gave up.
Before leaving home for our big court date!
Stop by church first
Already working the removal of the shoe
Busted!
Waiting in the courthouse with our lawyer.
The court messed up our name again. The Jr. in my name really causes a problem here. So Andre’s name on his birth certificate and adoption paperwork is; Andre Joseph Chase Jr-Soto. We had the exact same problem with Santi and made the lawyer get it changed. They offered us to stay in La Mesa for 22 more days to get it corrected. As nice as that sounds, I’m ready to move on. We were told there is another way that we will be working.
All done folks. Adoption is complete!
The more official photo at the finish line. Note the complete lack of shoes by our 8-month old. Sneaky!
There were three other families in line with us. We talked to one couple with two biological boys and they were adopting an 8 year old girl from Barranquilla. I won’t complain how long our process was anymore. They were in the process for 5 years and knew about their daughter for two of those years. But there kept being problems with paperwork and COVID also set them back. That couple was from Seattle. Apparently they were talking to another family also from Minnesota but I don’t know that we saw them.right
The afternoon was nice. We needed to hang around La Mesa for some paperwork running around & some random repeated signatures. After about an hour of that we bolted. We had lunch at La Veleño which was on the mountain side between La Mesa & Anapoima. Little dude was crashing pretty quick but a bottle took care of his growing crankiness.
The rest of the afternoon was spent prepping to leave tomorrow morning. Since the car as packed too tight coming here, we opted to ship our biggest heaviest bags to bogota. At $8 each, I might have to do this more often rather than dealing with bags and airport travel.
One last stop in town for some supplies. We needed to replace some of the stuff we used from here. Brought some chicken home for dinner. But, needed to wait for 25 minutes for the food so we went to the church down the block. What do you know! Eucharistic Adoration! We waited for our dinner AND got to spend time with our Lord. Pretty sure my priorities typing this was out of whack but you all know is and our priorities!
Then to top off the night, a thunderstorm put on our own 4th of July celebration!
