Thursday, March 26, 2009

More on "It's official"

So I know everyone wants to know all of the information and what has been happening lately! I will try to do my best, here it goes...

Our court date was March 16 and although we didn't pass on the 16th God is good and was with us. Thanks again for all of the prayers! I know they were answered. On the 16th the judge left our court case open as they were only requesting 1 additional document. Mary said that it is unheard of to have a case left open. Our baby was abandoned and normally a letter from the police will be sufficient proof. For our case they decided they wanted an additional letter from the head of Ethiopia. They also said they would take a faxed document which Mary says never happens. We were supposed to hear something two days later. So the next day they had power outages in Ethiopia. Someone from Gladney decided to get the document themselves. So we were told to wait a few more days. They drove and got the document but did not make it back in time to give to MOWA. So we were told to wait another two days. The next follow up MOWA was backlogged and couldn't get to our case... and so it continued every two days. Yesterday we didn't get a follow up and were bracing ourselves not to get through. When Mary said we got through I was shocked. I had braced myself for the worst and we got the best! Praise God for His hand was in this the entire time.

About our baby: His name is Nataga/Nathan. What happened is when he was found he was named Nathan, however his paperwork was mis-read and so he became Nataga. We are naming him "K" but aren't going to post his whole name as his name is unique and we would like it to stay that way. The other names we had liked became suddenly popular and we wanted a unique name. His name will be K Nathaniel. We like it b/c Nathaniel means Gift of God and that is truely what he is. We love Nataga and wil use it as a nickname.

2 comments:

Emily said...

Congratulations!!! He is beautiful and God is sooooo good!!!!

Amber said...

That is Awesome news! Hooray! So close to holding him....