We Understand

Thanks for all the words of encouragement. We do understand that this will be a long process of earning Ethan's trust and respect as parents. We just wanted everyone to know that we know its not all peaches and cream!

Everyone asks why the ten days. It is a replacement for the previous 30-day waiting that was frequently waived by judges who were paid a sufficient amount of US$$$$$. Now, there is no choice, it is 10 days with no opportunity to waive the time. The time period is to allow for anyone to appeal the court's decision granting us the adoption. The curious thing is that the decree from the court is not published anywhere, we wonder how anyone could even find out that there was an adoption of an orphan child let alone who specifically it is. Anyway, we cannot take Ethan until the judge actually puts that piece of paper in our hand.

We did get permission to take Ehtan on a walk outside of the orphanage today. He was scared but Natasha told him that if he held his Daddy's hand that everything would be OK, his Daddy would keep him safe. After that, he didn't want to hold Steph's hand, just mine :)

OK, gotta go its after 4:00 and Ethan is waiting on us.