Adoption decree....done.....this makes Jaemin a US citizen, officially and legally our son, and changes his name (which we opted to keep his Korean name as his first name)
Birth certificate.....done.....Brian went with the adoption decree and picked up the birth certificate today.
Next, we'll go to SSA and get a new social security card in his new name (with our last name), so it will match on taxes. And after we get our tax refund in 2010 I'll have the extra $500 to pay for the Certificate of Citizenship. Yeah, that's a lot of money, but in order for them (the government) to officially change his status from legal resident to US citizen we do this. It's better to cross all your t's and dot your i's while they're little and it's easy then when they are older and you have regrets for not completing everything possible. After this we are completely done with every piece of paperwork possible!
I now have 5 little US issued birth certificates which will allow all of my children almost all of the same rights. I won't even go into the ones our Korean-borns won't have 'cause it's kind of a sore point with most adoptive parents of internationally born children.
And, btw, my little man is still sick. Not much on Christmas Eve I believe. He's still got a slight temp and is a little crabby. He mostly just wants mommy, so I literally sit for hours just holding him. And he is sleeping in his toddler bed like such a big boys! Now that he's in there he realized it's not so bad because before he goes to sleep mommy can crawl in with him and lay by him. He does like that. He just rubs my face and arm while I lay by him. So SWEET!
Can you believe this is the same little guy who completely rejected me just a few months ago. He's trusting us now. That's a lot.
Lisa
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