Dessert First Day

To coin a phrase from our good friends the Beccards "Dessert First Day" essentially means the day our adoptions become finalized;our children become ours and the State of the Union recognizes them as U.S Citizens. Now granted Ava has felt and been ours since day one of our meeting but today marks the official finalized day...what a great day it was!

We went in front of the Honorable Judge Williams today at 1:30 p.m. What a surreal moment. He asked us a few questions and we must have answered them all right because in just a few short minutes Ava became Ava Seong-yeon Perry... just like that! To celebrate we visited Santa in Old Town and then went out to dinner at our favorite Asian restaurant East Moon Asian Bistro.

We arrived and of course ordered dessert first. The waitress looked at us kinda funny when we asked to see a dessert menu right away. She went on to describe them and started to walk away when we stopped her and said, "we would like to order dessert first, today is a special day." "Oh", she replied and looked at us kinda strange and got our her paper and wrote down our request of Matzo Balls. They came and we all savored the moment (and the dessert). During dinner Ava was mesmerized because we sat at the Hibachi table. The guy put on quite a show during the food preparation. We all enjoyed our dinner and we were off to look at Christmas lights. Then we headed home to put our daughter to bed.

What an exciting day for us. We have wanted a family for a really long time and today was the day that ended the adoption journey and started a new and different journey.