Close to the finish line

We are finally getting close to completing the re-adoption process for Victoria. For those not familiar with this saga, “re-adoption” is a process in your home state where you change your adopted child’s citizenship from legal resident to US citizen (getting a local birth certificate along the way, and in our case a legal name change).

We had our final post placement homestudy visit. The social worker has to write up the report, get two copies to our lawyer who then submits it to the Kings County (that would be Brooklyn – county of Kings) courts.

It’s taken a long time, partly due to the courts being slow and partly due to us being slow (since we already have Victoria, we don’t have the same motivation to deal with courts and paperwork). But we are almost there. Soon Victoria will be a US citizen.

On a side note, Danielle had her last swim lesson with an Olympic champion on Saturday. Anthony Erwin is going to return to California to go back to school. While having an Olympic medalist as an instructor for a 6 year old is pretty meaningless, he’s really just a very nice guy. Danielle will miss him.