They are ours!

Imagine our joy when we received our papers today!!! The papers that said the children were officially ours! And in effect saying we never have to drop them off at the orphanage again.

The schedule I gave you yesterday did not actually happen, but I'll give you a brief run down of how it all went.
6:20 on the bus, headed to the orphanage
6:40 get to the orphanage, pick up kids
6:55 get to Ministry and get searched thoroughly (think airport security)
7:10 sit in office taking up as much room as possible (these papers are totally ready since they have had them since Thursday. All we need is for the Minister to actually sign her name eleven times)
8:10 sitting
9:05 six very important looking people enter Minister's super secret office. They look ready for a very long meeting.
9:10 still sitting, break out the snacks. Some awesome parents brought Play Doh and shared it! Thanks, Calhouns!
9:30 I panic slightly at how long this meeting will last. I ask the secretary. She says it is a "short" meeting. Uh-oh.
10:10 still sitting
10:36 the Minister walks out of her office with her purse. I start to panic. I ask the secretary if she is leaving. She says yes, but that she signed. What?! She signed!

Then the mad-dashing-like-crazy-people began to happen, and I couldn't recall it all even if I tried. Just know that it involved literal running from one office to another, complete with babes in ergos and arms, important documents stuffed here and there.

Only God.

We were told no a hundred times, but Christ is our Yes! He said Yes today, and I have a beautiful, fat baby boy on one side of me, and a beautiful little girl on the twin bed next to us.

There are no words! Only joy and gratitude.

Goodbyes tomorrow. The day got very long and we couldn't make one more stop. We didn't want to rush it. So, tomorrow.

Thank you for your prayers.