Korean law requires a six month period before an adoption is finalized in the United States. Spencer’s adoption was finalized in Placer County Superior Court on June 19!

Judge Larry Gaddis, who is the presiding judge on the Placer County bench, signed Spencer’s finalization documents and promised us that the federal government would send us his new birth certificate “in a mere seven to eight years.”

Here’s a large part of the Klein and Steward families in the judge’s chambers for the finalization. (This is actually Judge Colleen Nichols’ chambers, but they had switched departments that day for a trial she was presiding over.)

Mom and Dad, with a very wiggly little boy.

Standing outside the courthouse…he’s all ours now.

Do we have the cutest kid, or what?