Day 19-Our little lady will be an American soon!

I am in a much better mood today than yesterday.  "Boogie nose" seems to be making its exit, leaving us our happy, silly little boy, thank god!  Today was a very important day for our family, we went to the US embassy in Toronto to make our little lady an American citizen.  Every time we would drive home, when we would stop at the boarder and state our citizenship, it always seemed weird to say 3 Americans and 1 Canadian.  Little lady will now be a dual citizen, but we will soon just be able to hand  them her US passport and not feel like we are smuggling in a little illegal alien.  This apt had the potential to be disastrous, and if "boogie nose" had stuck around just one more day, I am sure that it would have been horrid.  Somehow, some way, the stars all aligned, and we got the apt done with only minor bumps.  The apt was set for 9:45, we live about 30 minutes from Toronto, so we thought that leaving by 8:30 would give us plenty of time.  We didn't take into account that it would be snowing, and that we would hit the tail end of rush hour, but even with the snow and traffic, we got there by 9:50.  We walk to the embassy, and there is a HUGE line.  We had an apt, but I assumed that everyone in line had an apt, so we got to the back and waited.  (I didn't want to look like the self-entitled asshole American who thinks she can cut the line) We stood there in the snow, kids bundled up, for about 10 minutes before we started to look around.  We were the only American's in the line of all Chinese people. So my husband got out of line to ask the guard where we should be, and she told us to go right inside. (I guess we SHOULD have been those self entitles American assholes!)  We finally got upstairs, and gave the officer all of our paperwork, and they said we should have everything in 3-4 weeks.  Small problem with the photo for her passport, the background had a wrinkle in it.  The paperwork said they needed a white background, so I used a white blanket, but it had a little fold in it, and apparently that was uncool.  The lady was very nice about it though, and said she would call me if the photo is rejected.  So all in all, the apt went pretty well. Much much better than we expected!