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Thursday, January 26, 2012

A Day at the Courthouse

Today we will be traveling to the courthouse in the birthparents hometown. They will be signing over rights to us and we will get custody of Jack. The ride took around 2 hours and Jack did wonderful!
we met our Tennessee lawyer at the courthouse along with the birthparents. They were doing a little better today however we knew it still was very emotional for all involved. They signed papers first then we went in to sign. I wanted to give them time with Jack while we had to do paperwork and I think they apprciated that! I wanted them to spend as much time with him as they could since they were giving him to us for a lifetime! After papers were signed we officially had custody! The birthparents have 10 days to change their mind which is scary! But we all felt very good at the end of the day so I hope they feel the same. Jack feels like he is a part of us now - I couldn't bear it if they took him from us!!
When we returned Mommy and Jack stayed at the hotel hanging out and bonding while Daddy went to get dinner. We ate dinner and hung out with Jack! Jack is now an American Idol fan. LOL.
We went to bed around 9:30 and Jack slept after each feeding for about 2 1/2 hours each time - whoo hoo!!! We got 7 hours of sleep tonight. Very good baby.... I think it was the new Snuggabunny bassinet we bought him while we were down here!

1 comment:

  1. Wow! What an amazing story!! I'm so happy for you guys! He looks sooo cute!

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