It's the Karol & Karol & Karol & Karol SHOW!!!

It is offical we are now a complete family...


Let me introduce Rorieann Christine Karol



And Cole Lewis Karol



Oh it feels sooooo good to say that but it's hard to feel like we are really parents. I think it will hit me when we have them in our arms and we can leave this crazy place!!! I didn't sleep very well last night which I'm sure makes a lot of sense!!! We got up this morning and I was not yet feeling better so we took it easy and slow. My stomach was flipping. I have NEVER been in court, not even on a field trip, so I had this terrifing image in my head like on Law & Order. When we finally got into the room it was more like the court room you would have seen on the Any Griffith Show. LOL!!! The judge came in at about 2pm and asked us to "explain" what we were doing here... Marina helped ask us questions that the judge would have wanted to hear about. The social worker and the orphange attorney both gave us positive reviews. They both suggested that it was in the childrens best intrest that we be allowed to adopt them!!! That put us at ease but not a person in the room smiled AT ALL. The whole thing was about 45 or 50 minutes in all, then we waited for about an hour and a half for the judge to come back and declare her decison. She came back and read the longest mumbo jumbo I have ever heard. I didn't even realize what her decision was until Marina said "Say Thank You"! We were done in just enough time to make it to our afternoon visit, when I went to Rorie's room to get her I picked her up and everyday when I pick her up I take her hand and pat it on my chest and say Mama... today I just said Mama and she patted my chest all on her own!!! It melted my heart!!! Thank you for all the prayers so far we are half way done now just the 10 day wait and then 7 to 9 days of paperwork and then "Home again Home again jigity jig!"