COURT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OUR COURT DATE IS DECEMBER 23rd! We are so excited and are keeping all of our fingers and toes crossed that we pass the first time! If that happens then our girl will be a Mingrone for Christmas! What an amazing present that would be! We might get a visa appointment January 21st at the earliest. It could be in February too. We will find out in January I think. That is when we go to Ethiopia. Our Gotcha Day could be as early as Monday January 18th! We're getting ready but WOW.
Until we pass court we can email any pictures but when we do look out! She'll knock your socks off!
We've decided on Amari as her first name. It has so many lovely African/Ethiopian meanings - having great strength (so true of all the babies from Ethiopia), pleasing, agreeable, and beautiful. Mari would be a good nickname. It a diminutive of Marie (my middle name after my Grandma), and has Latin - of the sea, and Celtic - form of Mary, connections too. Mark is Italian and we are both Irish. I actually have heard Amari while subbing and Mark and I have like it all the way along. We wanted to wait to choose a name until we got our referral and we knew what her birth name was. We are going to move her birth name to her middle name. We'll post her full name after court!