Adoption Update

Sorry it has been so long since I have contacted anyone! Thank you to everyone that has had a hand in taking care of my kids!!!!!! We haven't been able to have computer access till about a half hour ago.

On Tuesday we closed the Morocco side of the adoption "Kafala". So the kids are legally ours here!!! We have had custody of Yasine (aka- Jordan) since that day! He has been so much fun! The kids there never leave the orphanage unless they are going to the doctor. So Yasine had only left the orphanage once in his 2 year life!!! Everything is new to him. The wind blowing in the windows as you drive, and the wind blowing the bag in the car- he was acting like the bag was alive!! He is fine with everything and isn't even on sensory overload like you would expect! He loves it and has only had a few tantrums since we got him. That is where communication would come in really handy. He is picking up on it really fast though. He already answers to Jordan and a few other commands. Dallas has loved having him around!

Nofel (aka- Cohen) couldn't come with us on Tuesday because according to their culture, he had to be circumcized first and then they carry them around for 2-3 days straight and take care of them in certain ways, so he had to stay and we will go get him as soon as the passport are ready.

Richie leaves in the morning to come home. I'm scared to be here on my own, but hopefully we will make it all work out. All that is left is to pick up the passports, birth certificates, and Nofel, on hopefully Monday or Tuesday and then as soon as possible get into the Consulate office and have there blood work done through a dr there, as soon as we can do that, it's only a few days after that till we get their visas and as soon as Delta can get us home - we are there!!!! You just have to schedule an appointment at the consulate and we don't know how far out they are. So we'll let you know as soon as we know.

I am going to try to post some pictures, but we haven't had much luck with being able to do that so we'll see. If there are new ones on here, you'll know it was a success. if not- I will try to send an email to a few of you with pictures if that will even work and you can spead them and send them around to everyone.

Thanks again! We appreciate everything that everyone is doing!! It sounds like everything is going good! I hope that is really the case! We will now have email until we leave, but can only call on select times. Take care and we'll talk to you soon!! Cindy