APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First and foremost-- praise be to God for this major milestone.

Israel Eyasu is legally our son.

We must confess that our post is late----we got word on Thursday June 30th.  But honestly we were still holding onto some of the negative feelings, fear and hurt from the previous week(read the "head fake" post) and decided to sit ont he news until we were really really sure.

Well-- we got his offical brith certificate today!  As is the custom, for now his name is Israel Jeffrey Sheehan-- how funny is that!  It is the custom in Ehtiopia for a child to be given his own name, then his last name is is Father's first name.  So by way of example, if we were Ehtiopian, pattersona nd William would be Patterson Jeffrey and William Jeffrey. 

Ally and I had along talk about names last night and we'll just have pray about this issue.  We will be able to change it when we go throught the normal legal process stateside.

Anyway