ASHLYN IS OUR DAUGHTER!!!

The 10 days was waived and we have Ashlyn with us right now :). Last night I went to sleep around 12:00 a.m. and woke up about an hour later . My heart was racing and I felt sooo sick to my stomach. I became panicked about going to court. If I had to go to court at that time, I don't think that I would have made it. I didn't go to sleep AT ALL. Thankfully, by 6:00 a.m. I was much calmer and just wanted to get it over with. We got to court on time and I was feeling pretty confident about giving my speech :). Welll, the judge came in and ruined it all by yelling and ranting. She was slamming her hands on our paperwork and all I could get out of it was Nicholas and Alexander ( my two younger boys names). That's how we started court :(. Luckily, she didn't rattle my nerves too much . My desire to be done with court was greater then my fear of court itself at that point in time. The judge smiled as she looked through the photo album that I made and she even took a few pictures to keep for herself ( including one of my boys ). Court only lasted for an hour and we were named Ashlyn's parents :). We found out later that our translator made a mistake in translating Nick and Alex's birth certificates, so that's what all the fuss was about. We found out at 2:00 that we would be able to pick Ashlyn up from the orphanage. If we couldn't do it today, then we would have had to wait until Sunday, so we were pretty excited. When we picked Ashlyn up, she was a little sad at first, but she quickly warmed up to us and was such a good little traveler back to the hotel. There was a lot of traffic and it took us 2 hours to get back, but she never once cried. Once back at the hotel, she played with all her toys and was just sooo happy. I laid her in the crib about a half hour ago and she hasn't made a peep. She's cuddling with the blanket and teddy bear that we left for her on our first visit. There's a lot more that I want to say, but i'm really tired from not sleeping last night, so I need to try and sleep. I'll post more tomorrow :). I'm going to also work on posting photos, so check back in :).