How Things Stand Now - the Adoption Process

We told you recently about having the social worker visit our house. I wanted to finish that story and let you know how things stand now on the adoption process.
The day after meeting with the social worker who has been assigned to look out for the welfare of Miriam and Hannah I met with her again. We finished up the paperwork that morning. She mentioned that now things were done from our end and she would present our case to the judge. Normally the case can sit in front of a judge for 6 or more months but our lawyer had been pushing the judges to rule quickly here. Afterwards we talked with our lawyer and he said he's hopeful we'll have a ruling making the girls legal ours early in September! The process has gone better than expected to this point.
As of today, we're just waiting to hear the next thing. There's nothing we can do except pray the Lord continues to keep His merciful hand in this adoption.
After the adoption comes through we will begin to make the girls American citizens. We need to finish that by February because we'll be returning to the United States for our first furlough March 1st, 2007.