Court & Dirty Diapers

Most of you are still sleeping... including Eli, he is taking a nap right now. 

Wanted to give you all a quick update from yesterday and how Eli is doing. 

Yesterday was very long. We woke up early at 6am and got ready for James to pick us up around 7:40am. Then we made our way to our Attorney as we were scheduled to be there by 9am. Upon arriving we got to meet our attorney, along with her wonderful staff. Then we had the opportunity to meet the witnesses in our case. 

We made our way to the courthouse around 12pm. We were hoping to be seen between 2pm - 3pm. But our Judge left and he did not return until 6pm and finally we were seen at 6:30pm. I won't be going over details of court in this email or on the blog. They will be left for us to share personally as we see you all. Court was over around 7:30pm. It took us awhile to get home as we dropped off our Attorney, dropped off the Sister, got some dinner and then made our way back home. We are expected to receive a ruling on Wed. We will keep you all posted as we hear something. But please don't be alarmed if we are not able to get the update to you right away. This is normal practice in Uganda. Please continue to pray. The ruling is very important and we must have it verbally & in writing before we can proceed to the next step. 

Although the day was very long, Eli was amazing! He played the entire time with both Paul & I. He was extremely talkative the whole day. We were certain that he'd be crashing as soon as we got home, but he stayed up in his crib just playing and talking for about an hour. He's had some issues with not going to the bathroom as frequently as we'd like. And so we were very concerned that these "issues" would relieve themselves while at court yesterday. So we all had an extra change of clothes, just in case. Although there were no accidents at court, when we woke up this morning we were beginning to get concerned about him not going. But then shortly after waking up, he went. YAY for dirty diapers!

Today (Saturday) is the first day we will be staying home all day and not doing anything but hanging out. We have been waiting for a day like this since we left the U.S. on Sunday. We are finally washing some bottles, clothes, and cleaning up our area. Sending you all updates, returning emails & face booking of course. We are also preparing for Sarah Idsardi to be jointing us on Wednesday night and our travels to the Babies Home on Thursday (which is a 6 hour trip).

Please don't forget that there are 3 other families here with us in Uganda. They are not staying at the same place, but we visit with them often. Please keep them in your prayers as well. Each of them have special prayer requests as they have all met their new additions and are in the process of bonding as well.