Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have finally made it official! And no, I’m not talking about their damn wedding. Their adoption of Vietnamese orphan Pax Thien was approved by a California judge yesterday afternoon. Although Brad and Angie have had Pax in their care for several months now, overseas adoptions are a two-step process requiring approval in both the child’s country of origin and then in the new country of residence in order to be finalized. TMZ reports

[Brad and Angelina] went to L.A. County Children’s Court in Monterey Park yesterday and finalized Pax’s adoption. The Jolie-Pitts were literally celebrating at the courthouse.

Jesus, I would hope so. Little Pax has spent the last half year living in the lap of luxury surrounded by people who love him, so being sent back to an orphan factory in a country whose chief exports are rice and communism would be beyond cruel. I can’t imagine a life of typhoid and pleasuring Western businessmen could ever live up to a life of American opportunity. But then again, I’m not foreign, so what do I know? Maybe there’s more to underage prostitution and infectious diseases than meets the American eye.

Brad, Angie, Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh at Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort last weekend (via Splash News Online):