Zeke is an official Belote!

Zeke's name has now been legally changed and he's officially a Belote!! YAY!!!! It was so exciting to go into the family court room yesterday, answer several questions from the judge and then have him congratulate us on our adoption. Besides the name change, we also had the judge recognize our foreign adoption, clearing the way for us to get Zeke a birth certificate from the state. We had a photo taken with the judge afterwards. He was so nice and helpful and seemed genuinely happy for us. I'm sure he enjoys presiding over cases like ours when most of his work consists of dealing with juvenile offenders. We told Zeke this was the last time we wanted to take him to "juvy hall." Hahaha! There were two other little boys who went ahead of us who were being adopted. One was two years old and the other boy was probably 3 or 4. They were both so cute!

Yesterday was a big day. Zeke had his 12 month check-up at the doctor and his first round of vaccines. He did very well and was definitely a big boy, quickly recovering after the shots. He was a little fussy thru the afternoon...probably due to the shots and being confined so much yesterday by the necessary events of the day. Per the doc's orders, we gave him infant tylenol and it seemed to help tremendously.

We have our second visit this morning with the Parents As Teachers educator. She's a very nice lady who is impressed with Zeke's development. Zeke surprised me today by taking off walking across the house. He sometimes does this--initiates a long walk but most of the time, Daddy and Mommy have to encourage him to walk. He prefers to crawl only because it's so much quicker. But I think he's getting more and more comfortable with walking.

That's it for now! We do have photos to post...sorry to be so slow about it. I'll try to post the photos from our court date later today.