After an early wake-up call, it was off to the court house for our hearing. The judge, who I thought looked like a younger version of Roger Goodell (who is the football commissioner), was a dour fellow who wouldn't look at us throughout the session. Each of us had to answer a number of questions he asked, and our representative Leila translated for us. When all was said and done, he went into chambers, and returned shortly after to tell us he had approved the adoption. He also gave us an official date of guardianship as February 15th, which is 10 business days from today. We were told to return the weekend of the 19th and stay for the week to complete the rest of the paperwork to bring Tasha home. Time to start looking for flights again!
The head doctor was surprisingly civil and, during the hearing, stated that Tasha responded well to us during our visits. Afterwards she also congratulated us and we shook hands with her. The head doctor had a state representative with her, a pleasant young woman named Angelina, who happened to catch a ride back to her office with us. She was quite the talker and was suggesting things to do with Ryan in a few weeks when we return. She mentioned a museum about space. We will have to do our homework on that one.
After we dropped the state rep off, we arrived at the orphanage to take Tashmina for passport pictures. While we were waiting Jacki realized that the court never returned our passports to us. They also didn't return the head doctor, our agency rep, and the state representatives passports either. Thankfully we realized it during the day, and not at night when it would be too late to retrieve them for our flights tomorrow! An extra complication for the day, but we're getting used to that!
Right now I'm sitting in the entrance hallway while Jacki, Anna, and a nurse are out picture taking so it was a good opportunity to update the blog. :) I'm sure Jacki is taking the opportunity to fuss over Tasha in the car.
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