Day 12

Today has been a great day, we got our ruling and now we are waiting for our orders (the written ruling) and we will officially be Ethan's guardians. He has been great all day today; he goes to Tiffany as much as he does me.Well the roller-coaster continues... I just got off the phone with the orgization that we are going through for the adoption, apparently Ethan's guardian just went to the lawyer’s office and told him that she is not his aunty, but is in fact his mother. And Ethan's father is technically still alive just not a part of his life. This is really bad since we had our ruling today and we are still waiting on the orders, the lawyer cannot ethnically release the documents knowing they were falsified. Therefore, we cannot get legal guardianship of Ethan but his family cannot care for him. Even if we were to get guardianship, the US Embassy will not release a Visa for a non-orphan; therefore we could not even take him into the US. This is all we know at this time, we will try to let everyone know as soon as we know more.so we are because of the ruling to day his legal guardian but we can’t get his passport...are first question will be is if his mom wants him back if she does then end of story but we will have to back to court to revoke guardianship..So freak'n crazy...if in fact she doesn't want him back then we will still do what it takes to bring Ethan home. I still have peace that God is at work in all of this. My heart aches knowing we took him from his mom’s arms. No wonder!! She said she did it because she could not care for him and she wanted him to have a better life. The whole family had to lie for it to get this far. All I know right now is that we are here for a reason and I won’t move till I know why... God would not bring us this far to drop us!!! Love you all and thank you for your prayers...we feel the love!!!
WOW, last night was so fun. We went up stairs after dinner and put together a train track, he loved it. He still calls them motor-cars but he will get it. Then we went in our room and played some music and danced and laughed for a good hour then we laid down in bed only to have Ethan tickle and laugh at us. Mommy could not resist the cuteness. We finally had to roll over and try to ignore his attempt to not go to sleep. He finally went to sleep for a little while then woke up itching we think in was bug bites so we treated him and then he went back to sleep. We slept in we slept through the school kids singing for the first time.We rushed out the door to go to court to get our ruling. We went in front of the judge’s door and his assistant came and asked for the child name then called us in. We sat down in the judge’s chambers and he read the orders and said that our application for guardianship was accepted. It is official Ethan John Kulp now our son to love for ever and always. We are so exited.His doctor’s appointment is tomorrow. We are still waiting for his passport which could be any day hopefully sooner rather than later. If we don’t get it tomorrow, dad goes home Friday. Ethan is going to miss him but he will be ok. God’s grace is so good.