God is Paving the Way

We had a day full of mini-miracles yesterday! Our lawyer kept saying, "This is blessing!" and looking at us with this incredulous look on her face. We got a ton done that needed to be done to get a court appointment to finalize the adoption (along with some other stuff). And on our way home from the orphanage at 4pm, we called our lawyer and heard that they did in fact get us an appointment in court for 8am this morning (Tuesday). So our driver Bebe is picking us up this morning at 7:30 for the big event that will officially make us Zeke's parents. We're thrilled. We packed a diaper bag to take with us, as we're hoping to be able to take him out of the orphanage with us for a few hours today to go apply for his passport. Please pray for that. We're a bit nervous about the transition into our care and how he will do.

Prayer requests for today: After our court appt, we need to get copies of the official court ruling. We're not sure if this will happen right away or if it will take a few hours (we're praying for right away). We need those papers before we can do anything else. Then we go to the MIGEPROF office to receive from her our "To Whom it May Concern" letter, which is a letter saying we can officially remove the baby from the orphanage permanently. Then we go to the passport office to apply for his passport. We hear this can be a bit tricky depending on who you get, some are a bit more picky and hard to work with than others. And we need to receive his passport in 24 hours for this whole deal to work. So to have that happen we need to get to the passport office today before noon, and have God move in their hearts to have mercy on us and do a rush job! After that we head to the American Embassy to finalize the adoption with them, called the Form I-600. They say they need the baby's passport to complete this, which we won't have yet. They normally only allow americans appointments only on Tuesdays and Fridays, but they'll be closed this Friday for Good Friday, so we really need them to either make an exception for us and stamp our papers without the passport in hand, or allow us to schedule and emergency appt for Thursday when we will have the passport in hand. Please pray again for God to go before us and pave the way in all these things.

Zeke seemed a little better yesterday - still very stuffy and congested, but more alert and not feverish. Boy, he's a cutie. We still haven't heard him make a peep other than cough noises. We're hoping to hear him make some kind of sound, even a cry, soon. This seems to be a pretty normal orphanage thing. No one comes when they cry, so what's the point?