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Family Day!

Today marks the first ever Walters' Family Day. We will always celebrate today because it the day that James became a legal member of our family.

The 3 of us with the judge who signed the adoption papers, recognizing us as James' legal parents.

This morning we met with our lawyer and went before a judge to finalize our adoption. The entire hearing took less than 10 minutes, including time for pictures. We were sworn in and asked simple questions like our names, place and date of marriage, and if we were willing to accept responsibility for raising James.

Our social worker, Tramona, was able to join us for the hearing and the four us went to lunch afterwards to celebrate James!

This afternoon we had our first ever family pictures taken to celebrate Family Day. James is a very smiley baby, but he's also very curious. We had a hard time getting him to smile, he was more interested in looking at the photographer, the fancy lights, and her camera. We're pleased with the results, but I think we could have some fun doing captions for these pictures!
The classic sweet baby - we got a HUGE one of this picture.
Just the 3 of us! Tobias said he looked like a fish in this one, I thought more an old man! =)I thought he looked so scholarly in this one - and perhaps a bit bored.And here James is showing us that he's done with pictures and just wants to go home!

Comments

Debby said…
I like the one where he looks so scholarly also. This was the big day. It took a long wait but good things are worth waiting for.You all look so happy! Love is grand!!
March 29, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Dan K said…
Tob & Sara,

Great family pics with little James.
April 17, 2008 at 11:04 AM
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