Family Nopal

Exactly one week after our anniversary our family will now have a new anniversary, our family anniversary!  Introducing the fabulous and amazing latest addition to the Aguirre-Gildard family, Griselda Lea and Edgar Alan!!

As a note, Edgar Alan had a different name when we met him and told us from the beginning that he wanted to change his name.  We talked about it and told him we liked his name and thought it was fine, but he still wanted to change it.  He likes Edgar a lot, so he wanted his first name to be Edgar and he likes the name Alan and wanted that to be his middle name.  He has no idea the poet/author jokes he has in store for his future!  We talked to Griselda about changing her middle name to Lea so Siana could share a part of her name with her too and she liked it so we made that change upon finalizing.

The last few days have been pretty crazy and so much has happened that we’ll just include the highlights here.  Warning there are like a million pictures to follow! 🙂

We flew to Hermosillo via Phoenix on Sunday and boarded a plane old school style

And pretty much an hour after we landed we headed to Unacari where the kids live.  Our new friend Adrian threw a party at Unacari for her daughter Arlette and invited us all. The kids were all such wonderful hosts, pouring soda for their friends and offering cupcakes and pizza to everyone.  And of course there was a piñata!

Here’s Arlette enjoying her piñata and of course Edgar Alan and Griselda took a good whack at it too!

The party was such a great way for the kids to have closure and say goodbye to their friends and the many tias that have taken care of them. Thank you Adrian for throwing such a great party!

We then moved on to the next morning which started early with signing paperwork at Unacari which released the kids to our custody. We were pretty excited about this!

Upon leaving Unacari with us for the last time, the kids were pretty happy too, we said “let’s go” and they sprinted out, with Edgar Alan doing a little jump for joy on the way.

We then headed out to get the new birth certificates.  We first went to one office to get Arlette’s birth certificate with Adrian to which we all applauded when they got the final signed official copy.

And finally after a few hours it was our turn at a different office.  Signing multiple copies and with fingerprints from the kids, we got it done!  And now they are officialy our kids!

Finally Familia Aguirre-Gildard!

And as if all this excitement wasn’t enough, we then headed out to the airport for the kids first plane ride ever!

They were all so excited they waited by the window for the plane!

And here we all are just before boarding, onward to Mexico City for our next adventure in paperwork and waiting in offices…