What's 4 months anyway?

I have been absent for a good reason. Packing. Planning. Stressing. But in the meantime, we received something quite curious. Little man's birth certificate. It is the NEW birth certificate issued by the Ethiopian government listing us as his parents. Of course they have his name incorrect, but that can be corrected when we readopt in the states. The interesting thing is his birth date. Now remember if you will, when we received our referral in February we were told our little guy had been abandoned. When he was discovered they estimated he was about 2 months old. That was in July of 2009. So, we always believed he had been born sometime in May. Funny thing is that his birth certificate lists his birth date as September 7, 2009......two months after he was found. So I inquired. Of course at this point I was not about to rock the boat. I actually think that gives him a bit of an advantage, being 4 months younger than we thought. It is "catch up" time. Since he has been institutionalized nearly his whole life he will be a bit behind in many areas. So.....four months is no big deal. I was told that the original orphanage picks a date and that date is used on all the legal documents for the adoption. Turns out, it is not something we could change at this point anyway.

Weird.

We leave on Saturday. Time seems to be flying quickly to the point I feel compelled to put my foot down to slow us a bit. So many things to pull together. Just think, two weeks from now we will already be home.