Josh is officially our son tonight! Wow- what a great and long-awaited day. We walked and did some shopping this morning for our orphanage donations. We both needed to keep busy and distracted. Isabel told us that downtown is not a place for babies, so Josh had his first babysitter today. Our friend Kim watched him and he was his very best for this special day. We were picked up from the hotel at 1:45 and drove about a half hour. We entered an old office building (and an elevator with a maximum of 3 people!) and went up to Court 7. It was a very small office with a counter and at 2:30 exactly, Isabel marched up and received our paperwork. We checked it over carefully for mistakes in spellings, names, and passport numbers. The back page was stamped, we both signed, and that was it! Chad and our driver Jonny went to another building to get photocopies and the lawyer arrived just in time. All of the 8 necessary copies then needed to be signed and so Isabel suggested that we have some coffee while waiting. Unexpectedly, our lawyer showed up with the paperwork at this cafe a half hour later. We drove another half hour to the notary and Josh's birth certificate was changed from his Colombian name to Joshua Danford Theis!! Hooray! This process took about an hour, and during this time Isabel helped us get all the rest of our paperwork ready for tomorrow. She told us not to book plane tickets yet BUT when the lawyer asked, she said that we would fly home THIS WEEKEND as long as Maria (from Ayudame) would have time to meet with us yet this week. Did you read that? THIS WEEKEND!! So, two prayers requests: 1. Maria would agree and have time to meet with us this week (there is one piece of paperwork that she still has) and 2. we could change our plane tickets for this weekend, hopefully not only will a plane have 2 seats for us but also that we could have an easy trip home (10 hours total versus 26 hours total!!).
Tomorrow we are leaving at 9 AM to get Josh a passport. In the afternoon, Josh will have an appointment with a US doctor to clear him for entrance to the US. On Thursday we will apply for his visa and on Friday we will pick it up.
We can't WAIT to see you with our NEW SON!!!
7 comments:
I will keep you in my prayers. I can't believe you all might be home this weekend! It probably doesn't seem to go fast for you, but I can't believe you might be home this weekend! Exciting News!
Love,
Sara
OH MY GOSH!!!
So I know I haven't posted in a couple of days, but today I was thinking to myself..."I wonder if everything is going OK" and then I was like well I better check. Then I read in big caps that you're coming home.....SOON! I can not believe this at all, words can't describe how unbelievably excited I am to finally welcome you back! So here's a brief overview of what's been happening here: It's been kind of crappy weather, I figured I wouldn't walk Cloey today because it was raining, but then I felt bad because she NEVER gets to go outside anymore unless she's on a walk or playing with the neighbor dogs. So, I put on my rain coat and walked Cloey.....it was raining a little bit, but nothing that was extreme, then it started pouring!!! The one day I had forgotten my mom's cell phone, so we toughed it out and then sat on the couch with towels all over us (Cloey liked that part). Again very glad you guys are coming home soon (Cloey + Mikki are missing you). Well I have more homework to do. Keep me posted!
Laura,Cloey,and Mikki
Congrats!!! What an exciting time for you! We are glad the day went well!!! We will be praying for the rest to go smoothly! Have a great night! Take care!
--D&K
Congratulations Theis family! Fast & safe travels to you all.
Figges
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!
Sara filled me in on the exciting news!!!! I cannot wait to welcome Joshua to Waunakee! My thoughts and prayers go out to you, Chad and Joshua!
Colleen
holy moley you guys. this is GREAT news. to have it official is SO GREAT but to get to come home SO QYUICKLY is just icing on the already fantastic cake!
we'll still be praying!
love and hugs to all three members of the Theis family!!
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