Re-Adoption Day

August 15, 2011 was Jacob's Re-Adoption Day in Illinois! It was such a quick and simple process. We met with our friends mom who works with a lawyer about a month before and filled out a few papers and then showed up to court on the 15th. Brad went up on the stand and answered a few questions. "Yes we love Jacob and really want him in our family. Yes we know he is forever part of our family and we will treat him the same as any other kids we might have in the future. Yes we will take care of him and have bonded with him." That was about it. I'm glad it was a courtroom that Jacob didn;t have to be quiet in because he "talked" the whole time. :)

Our adoption was final in Ethiopia, but it makes things simpler when they are readopted in your state and he will also have an Illinois birth certificate. And now his legal name is Jacob Jafar Mowen.