Bonding Period Completed

Wednesday was our 14th and final day of the official bonding period! So, our translator submitted all the paperwork needed to petition the KZ court to adopt Ethan and Alex, and we just heard that we have a court date scheduled for May 15th!

After the 15th, the boys will 'almost' be ours. KZ law requires a 15 day appeal period for every court ruling, so we will have to wait for that. During this next week up to the court date and through the fifteen day appeal period we can continue to visit with our boys. We were hoping to get permission to take them both out for a special afternoon to lunch but we couldn't get permission to take Alex off the orphanage property. So, we will continue to visit the boys at the orphanage and we are praying that court goes well. After the court judgement and the appeal period, the boys will officially be ours! Yay! Then we'll just have approx. a week or week and a half left during which we go back to Almaty and get all the kids visas and passports squared away.