beloved-ones: birth certificate

30 April, 2012

Re-Adoption

This morning we went to the Forsyth County Court House and had our Re-Adoption— a hearing to validate our adoption. Our adoption of Mae was completed in Zhengzhou the day after we got her, March 29, 2011. Today our county court validated her adoption for our state, which means that Mae can now have a Georgia Birth Certificate (Certificate of Foreign Birth)! So she will be an official Georgia Peach (;

A Georgia Birth Certificate means many things for our China girl... there will be many times in her future that she will need a birth certificate. We will need it to enroll her into kindergarten, when she goes to get her driver's license, or even if she and her future hubby decide they want to adopt one day. It will be much easier on her to obtain a copy of her birth certificate through our state's vital records here, and not have to try to get one from her birth country.

The above picture is with Superior Court Chief, Judge Bagley. After everything was final for the Re-Adoption, we got a picture with him. He seemed delighted with our wiggle worm and asked us several questions about China and our time adopting. We were quite happy today to have this (almost) final part of the process compete. (We still have to get her birth certificate in the mail, and after that I will need to file it with the social security office to get her SS#.)

Our sweet girl waiting for us to get our certified copies of the documents.

*Waiting patiently and quietly for a two year old can be a challenge. She did a lot of wiggling but all in all I was so proud of her. She really tries hard to do what is asked of her.

We took a few more pictures outside the courthouse. It is a beautiful day and Mae is so pleased with her pretty dress.

She knows it must be special, and with matching shoes too. (The dress and shoes were made by my sweet friend, Sheila!) Every one that saw her today commented on how pretty she was, so she was absolutely beaming.