Legally Free!

Yesterday Katelynn's birth father's rights were terminated, eliminating the last barrier to us adopting her. We're now cleared for the final hoop of hiring a lawyer and coming before a judge to have the adoption finalized. Katelynn will then get a new birth certificate with "FitzGerald" as her last name. It will probably take 8 or 9 weeks for our lawyer to get together the paperwork she or he will need from our adoption agency and us, and then get it all processed by the courts and secure us a time in front of a judge. End of May hopefully!