Finished with Paperwork? Could it be true?

Yes, Yes, Yes, we have finally finished all our paperwork and everyone on both the Chinese and American sides of the adoption (that needs to) has approved it. Today we went to the Oath Ceremony at the US Consulates Office. There were probably 50 families or more present. Each family was called up once again to verify their paperwork, and amazingly enough this process went very fast. The Consulate then came out and talked to us about the trends in American adoptions of Chinese children and citizenship for our children. We all swore that our information was true to the best of our knowledge and ability, and hip hip hooray, we are done and our VISA's to take our children home have been approved. Our guide will go back to the Consulates office for us tomorrow to actually pick up Jaxon's passport with the VISA in it and we will then board the train for Hong Kong. Eric commented tonight that Beijing seems like such a long time ago, but it was only less than two weeks ago. For 10 months, we have been working to bring home this beautiful child to be a part our family and that time has finally arrived. We couldn't be happier.

A note to our families: dinners out in the future are going to be a problem--not b/c of Jaxon's eating issues, but b/c when he is done eating or when we take the food away b/c he has had too much, he immediately expects that he will be taken out of his high chair and that everyone leaves the restaurant. If that does not happen to his liking, all he** breaks loose. Yes, this is one little habit that will be broken :)