LEGALLY

It's here. Our six months of waiting for the paperwork, interviews, home visits, and shared custody to be over... It's here. Today is a big day. I can't wait. For the first time in my life, mine and Kday's names will be listed as Mother and Father on a birth certificate. It's something that most people don't even think about during the shuffle of hospital discharge paperwork. I'm weird that way. It was always the small things that made my heart ache when we were waiting to become parents. But today Layla will finally, legally, be known to the world as Layla Marie Day. Daughter of Kday and Sday. She will have a new legal identity. A Socia+l Security # to match her new name. We won't forget the beautiful Chinese name that her birth-mother gave her. It translates to "beautiful and talented." But after six long months, today is our day to name her. She will be our Layla. Legally.