It only took 3 years!!

Re-adoption and recognition of forgein adoption is mostly a formality.  But we really needed to do it to also officially change Hayden's(Hazel is her daily preference at this point)name.  This secures us a Texas birth certificate and we need that to apply for her passport....which we will need soon. 

We were lucky in that there is a local mom who is a family law attorney that is also an adoptive mom who does these pro-bono, we just had to pay the filing fees.  She was awesome and if you live in my area and in need of this or a family attorney let me know and I will pass along the info to you!!
It was awesome, she was AWESOME!!!!

So we went this morning....not the best morning as David is still very much recovering from his surgery and Hayden was diagnosed with strep(first time ever taking antibiotics and had hoped to go a little longer with not taking them)  But her throat is on fire and she needed to be treated.  So getting up at the crack of dawn and getting to court was NO easy task.  I literally had to dress all 3 of us:)  But so glad we have it done and hopefully that birth certificate shows up quickly so we can get this passport application sent off.

We had a wonderful judge who was VERY cheerful and sweet to Hayden.  He sent Hayden with the court reporter to a room to pick a special treat....a big chest full of stuffed animals.  She picked the cutest bear with a rainbow sweater(yay another stuffed animal) Then he took pictures with us.  It was really awesome and feels good to have this behind us and glad we got to have a little ceremony and fanfare.  Everyone clapped when he announced Hayden's name.....which of course she LOVED!!!

Enjoy and note that I had no sleep, Hayden has strep and well my poor husband has been thru hell with his arm for the last 6 weeks!!! 

Our wonderful attorney Nora

my silly Hazel

Please notice that Hazel chose to wear her glass slippers to court today.  Only the best for a court appearence.  That is petsy the bear she chose.  Isn't that a cute bear??