Day 41

Don’t worry there was no update yesterday; we stayed at the baby house and there was not anything really to talk about. Today however, we went into Kampala to get some stuff done in advance, that we know we need to get done and rather then make a trip later we went today with some other people that went into town.
This morning I called the lawyer to find out if I could get a copy of the birth certificate that he had generate because we know that we will need for paperwork, however when I called him, he told me that he had not generated one since it was not required for court. So there we are knowing we need one but one was never generated. We will have to go to the social work near the baby house to have one generated but first we need go to the hospital to have them agree with us on Elliott’s age. So we will do all that tomorrow to get the birth certificate out of the way.
So today we were able to get passports photos of Elliott. We had to get a number of photos, since they need them for his passport, immigration, medical check, and visa. After photos, we went over to the doctor so that Elliott could do his physical that is required for the US Visa. This was hard on me because the whole time was there I was thinking about how we went through this with Ethan and that I could not go through that whole thing again. I know God is with but my insides were shaking so bad I almost threw up. It has to be the most uneasy was about losing Ethan since we have had Elliott. God told me he would be with me and get me though it but he never promised it would be easy. I was talking with the lady from the baby house and she told me that it would be ok and that getting guardianship of Elliott will not be a big issue. This is a relieve, but still that does not help heal the pain that losing Ethan caused. I know that God is working in me and is growing my faith and only through him I will be able to get through this.
The other issue that came up the last couple days is that we realized that all of our paperwork has Ethan’s name on it and does not have Elliott’s. This included my power attorney that Aaron gave me to sign paperwork on his behalf. This means that Aaron will now need to redo most of the paperwork back in the states and send them all over here to me. We know that is a God thing that we realized now because it would have delayed the process if this slipped and then I had to wait on the paperwork. So thank God that he know all and understands all, even this process of adoption here in Uganda. Thank you all for praying it is truly helping as Aaron and I have now been apart for 3 plus weeks. I know that prayer and time with God is the only way that I am still able to stand here in Uganda.