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Happy Re-Adoption Day Maya!

May 21st, 2007 will forever be known as Maya's Re-adoption day! She is officially Maya and we are recognized legally as her parents in the eyes of the USA. Now we just wait for that golden birth certificate and we are done! No more paper work!!!! YAHOOO!!!!

The whole re-adoption process was pretty easy, we sat in front of a judge for about seven minutes while he reviewed all of our post adoption paperwork and then he signed off. The judge seemed more interested in our digital camera than he was anything else, but I am so glad we are done and that the boys were with us so that they could be a part of it. My favorite part was when the judge (who was quite taken back by the number of children we have) asked the boys if they liked having her around and they all told him how much they love her and how fun she can be. I guess all in all it seemed a bit anti-climatic for me I think that with all adoptive families have been through to bring these special kids into their lives there should be banners and balloons and confetti and cake...instead it was kind of like "oh, that's it? We did all that paperwork and worried for this?" After it was over we rushed right back to our crazy lives getting the boys back to school, preparing for a family trip to the beach this weekend, and homework...it was not until much later that night when I saw Maya all snuggled up with her daddy and he said to me "Come give YOUR daughter a kiss goodnight" that I realized what had happened for what it was, she is ours legally in every way now and that is huge! We are done with every single piece of paper that has to do with adoption or re-adoption and that is huge! I guess I didn't need the balloons and banners after all, but hey... a cake would have been nice!!!