Welcome to the UK!

The boys now are officiallly registered as British citizens (cue "God Save the Queen"). After paperwork that you would not believe (not to mention a pretty steep fee -- might have been cheaper to fly over there and have them in the first place!), Thing One and Thing Two are now officially dual citizens. The letter from the consulate was pretty funny. Excruciatingly polite, as one might expect. It said, in essence, that the UK was delighted to have the boys as citizens and that they are entitled to have a British passport, but, it warned, the US isn't so chipper about the whole dual-citizen status and, if we want to avoid trouble traveling, we should make sure they have US passports.

So, we will start working on that for the day that we head for Jolly Ol' England. I am hesitant to do it too soon, though. The boys will change so much that a photo now won't be very helpful in a year or so when we head for Wallingford.