To Whom

We received our "To Whom" letter from the Ministry and now Crew can spend the day and night with us! He is ours all the time. He is such a joyful little guy and is on the move. He learned to crawl on Monday and showed off his pipes last night:) (apologies to our neighbors in the hotel)

Our next step is to get passports for our kiddos - hopefully that will happen tomorrow. We head to Ethiopia late Friday night.

Our trip thus far has been fantastic! Our in country staff in Rwanda are amazing and the other families that we are adopting with are incredible. We are thankful to be on this journey with them.

We passed court yesterday! So today is the first day that we get to have Crew for the whole day outside of the orphanage. Here are some pictures from the last couple of days. Everything is going great and we'll update more later. Just thought you might want to see little Crew!

remembering

Today we went to the court early this morning so that we could state our case for adoption before the judge. We got that done fairly quickly and all seemed to go well. We hope to have a ruling soon! After court we came back to the hotel and had a few hours so we walked around town and ended up at the soccer stadium. They let us in and we watched the Junior Rwandan Team practice for a while. We made it back to the hotel to eat and then meet up with the other families. We went to the Kigali Genocide Memorial which is very well done. The beautiful gardens show the life that goes on next to the mass graves of over 200,000. Inside we were educated on the history of Rwanda, then events that led up to the genocide and the reconciliation after the genocide. There is also a room of pictures that families have sent in of those who were killed. Upstairs was an area dedicated to remembering other genocides throughout history and then a room dedicated to the children that were killed. Very sobering - but Rwanda is certainly healing and growing as a country.

We look forward to visiting our children again tomorrow!