It's Official!

"We're a family of 6" were Keith's words as we accepted our Certificate of Adoption this morning. After we'd signed all of the proper forms we got in the bus again and went to the top floor of the Notary building where the documents were notarized.

SO - Nathan Jiang Johnson is officially ours. It is really hard to believe and we are incredibly humbled and grateful to God for him.

For me, I find myself (at a little over 36 hours into this) wondering about who this little miracle of a boy really is. We went to a local "Wal-Mart" type store today and as we were wheeling the cart around the store, I would watch him and wonder what was going on in his mind. What does he think of us? What are his tastes? (he does seem to like everything we offer him to eat so far). And what is his personality? What were his parents like? What were the 15 months like for him before we all met? So many questions and so few answers.

We are figuring some things out about him. He is teething. We just figured that out at dinner tonight. He likes to roll around all over his crib before falling to sleep. He is very friendly. This morning at breakfast he had the undivided attention of a worker outside the restaurant window. He kept entertaining this man with his waves and looks. Nathan does like attention.

These are just a few glimpses into his life and everyone of them is like a puzzle piece. I think one of the hardest realities of adoption is that there will be many of those pieces that we will never find. But that is where our prayers (and yours) come in, as well as our faith and trust that our redeeming God will not only redeem those things we don't know, but also use them for His glory
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We can't wait for all of you to meet him too! He's coming out of his shell and we are too and the discovery is quite an adventure. I love this picture of him tonight making his first "cell phone call". We'll talk to you all again tomorrow.