It is finished

Well it's finally finished! We went and we saw the judge and finalized Terra's adoption. Our first FAMILY picture. :)

I was a little disappointed in the whole thing, he didn't wear his robe, we met in his little office instead of the court room, and the whole thing lasted 5 minutes. But regardless of that, I am still glad that we did it (we have the option of just sending the paper to us, we do not have to go to court but we choose the court experience). All of our families came with is very important to me. We packed his office with 18 people. Which almost didn't happened because they came out right before we were suppose to come in and said only the parents can come in. Which meant my sister and her husband (who had canceled a bunch of meetings at work to come)and 5 kids, and my grandma from Hamilton wouldn't be allowed it. But I pleaded with them and they let us in! :) After all they were there for the other 2 adoptions, I wouldn't want them to miss the (more then likely) last adoption.

This is a group shot of our families! We packed us all into his office. We are happy to have it all finished. No more workers coming to our house, following up on us. If we want to leave the province of Ontario we do not have to ask for permission and get letter from Children's Aid with thier approval. We do not have to fight with our workers when they try to tell us to vaccinate Terra against H1N1 since we were not her guardian. (They listened and respected our wishes, only b/c it was so close to being finalized)

Afterwards we went down to the waterfront and took a LOT of pictures. I'll be posting them in the next while. As some turned out just amazing.
Thanks for all your support

one year ago...

Look at the sweet baby. Today, November 11 marks the one year anniversary that 5 month old Terra came to live with us. It's hard to believe that it has been one year already. So much has changed in our lives. We went from a family with 3 boys and added a sweet little baby girl. Chance was smitten right away with those big brown eyes, and a year later Chance still lets her get away with most anything. She is defiantly Chance's little girl. Well ours too. :)

I still remember that day so clear. We've been waiting for 5 months, since the day she was born, to come to us. That is just seemed to surreal. My parents took the day off to come and meet their newest granddaughter. My sister, her husband and 5 kids all come over to meet her. It's was a wonderful evening with my family and introducing her to my family.
This is the very first picture of us as a family!
The boys and their new baby sister. They were just over the moon

In the summer Chance told me that he wanted a baby and he wanted her to be a girl and he wanted her to be with us forever, and that he didn't want a worker to come and take her away from us. It was heart wrentching to hear him say that because he was still hurting from Marlon. I just had to tell him that "we'll see". At that time Terra was 2 weeks old, but they were not saying anything about her being with us or not. So when we told the kids they they were getting a baby siter and she was comming in 4 days, right away Chance said "see mom, I asked for a baby sister and you got me one. thank you!"

I had to explain that just when he asks for a baby doesn't mean he is going to get one. He asked me a few months ago about getting another baby and I said no. And his response? Well you can just call a worker and they will bring us a baby.

some kids thing the stork bring babies, my kids think workers bring babies! LOL