Gotcha Day!

I have to start by telling about Soraya.  Soraya is a beautiful, wonderful, kind woman.  She is our representative here in Colombia.  Soraya loves helping adoptive families, she has been helping adoptive families for 15 years.  This isn't her full time job either, she does this out of the goodness of her heart.  She has been working on our adoption here in Colombia the entire time and has done so much for us.  Now on to Gotcha Day!
She picked us up Monday morning and we squished into her car, she told us she was glad we fit because we are both such big people.  She makes me laugh. She weaved through the crazy traffic like a pro and we arrived extra early at the the ICBF regional office. We waited until it was time to meet Lucy our lawyer.  We were asked to wait in a small waiting room with toys until they were ready for us.  Diego was late because he had a doctors appointment, so we waited for a long time.  The psychologist who worked with Diego and the family defender and one other woman met with us and went over Diego's history and his daily routine and Soraya translated for us.  We had the chance to ask any questions we had.  After our questions were answered, Soraya went to get Diego. She took our camera and took pictures for us.  One of the ICBF employees brought Diego in to meet us.  He came in like a tornado.  He didn't really notice us until we broke out the M&M's.  Candy, the universal language of children.  Diego played with a big toy car in the room and tried to move it everywhere.  He played a little with Ben and some of the toys we brought for him.  He is such a darling boy and so full of energy!  He called us Mommy and Papa and seemed happy to be with us.  We had a few minutes alone together and then we signed a paper and took Diego home. 

Diego and Soraya

Gotcha!