The Miskellys' Haitian Adoption Journey: June 2013

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Found Some Cute Pictures...

There is not much going on with our adoption right now other than waiting for paperwork in IBESR and dispensation. We continue to pray for things to move quickly and we will leave all of that in God's hands. I did find some cute pictures of the boys taken by Julie Manfred and I will post them for you. They just make me smile.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Father's Day Wish

Wishing everyone a great Father's Day today. I don't know if you can remember when your child first said "Papa" or "Daddy", but I know that moment sticks in your mind. For my three older children I got to share in every first word, first step, and every milestone. For my two boys in Haiti it is time to make some new firsts and memories since we have missed out on their early childhood. My five children are all special and I am thankful that God has trusted me and my wife with them, and our goal is to continue teaching them about HIM.

Cherdinor and Darby play football.

I can not tell you, at one time, what a wonderful time we had with our boys in Haiti. Christy and I truly fell in love with these boys. I wanted to introduce one of the new Chester County football stars of the future. Here is a video of this football prospect. We do have a few years to go and a little practice....

He is a beautiful boy and will fit right in with our family. He is quiet, polite, and just wanted to play.

I wanted you all to meet my knewest baseball/soccer player, Davidson. We've got a long way to go but he sure is determined. We love the time we had to play ball with him. As soon as we brought the ball out he livened up and was all grins the rest of the day.

His feet were clubbed at birth and he has had surgery and casting, but still not where he needs to be. I am going to look for some knew footwear to send him as soon as possible.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Back From Haiti........

Wow, what a week in Haiti. Our mobile medical clinic saw over 1,900 people in 5 clinics from Sarthe to Santo. We worked in 5 subdivisions of Port-au-Prince and it was awsome. We came back exhausted. The biggest excitement of the trip was seeing our boys for the first time. I can not tell you how much emotions we felt last Sunday. We played, we hugged, and we cried. We tried so hard to build a bond so they will know who we are. Here are our beautiful boys with Darby right in the middle. I will post some more pictures and some videos in the next few weeks.

Miskellys' Adoption Journey Timeline

01/06/07 - Baby Paul born

04/02/07 - First ever home study

06/05/07 - Entire completed and translated dossier arrives in Haiti

06/28/07 - Baby Paul's physical and he is healthy

06/30/07 - Baby Paul has been sick and getting worse

07/01/07 - Baby Paul dies

Long Pause for almost three years as we mourn and contemplate trying again.

03/10 - Met the first Davidson and family decided to try adopting a child again

03/11 - continue to work with grandmother trying to adopt him

07/11 -Grandmother finally agrees to proceed with adoption

08/08/11 - New home study done

09/11 - Pretty much completed Dossier

09/11 - Signed agreement with His Home for Children to do the adoption.

09/22/11 - First fingerprinting done

09/23/11 - Recieved I-171, approval to adopt children

03/12 - Grandmother finally refuses to let us adopt the first Davidson and moved on to other options

05/12/12 - Tell Chris Nungester at HIS Home for Children to find us a child placing this in God's hands. She chose a boy named of all things "Davidson".

07/26/12 - Dossier arrived in Haiti and ready for Minister of Foreign Affairs to legalize the paperwork

08/23/12 - Due to new law changes in Haiti we were asked about taking a beautiful, sweet boy named Cherdinor to go with Davidson

09/15/12 - Paper sent to IBESR (institute du Bien-Etre Social et Recherches - Institute of Social Well-Being and Research)

12/04/12 - Updated home study

01/18/13- Updated fingerprinting

06/01/13 - Met the boys for the first time Face to Face.

05/06/14 - Updated fingerprinting

05/29/14 - Travelled to Haiti for mission trip and for first bonding trip with the boys and spent 3 days in hotel with them.

07/16/14 - Received notification from lawyer that we are out of IBESR and that she has dossiers in hand and will move them to the court system this month.

09/12/14 - 09/16/14 - Went to Haiti for our second bonding trip and spent 4 days in hotel with our boys.

09/15/14 - Had embassy appointment to file our I600.

09/30/14 - Cherdinor moved to the boys home to start his first day of school.

10/15/14 - Cherdinor's parents go to American Embassy to give away their rights. We learn more detail about his family.

03/22/15 - We spent a day with CJ and Davidson at our guest house in Port-au-Prince. Loved the play day. We were in Haiti on medical mission trip.

07/15/15 - Updated home study one more time to get our fingerprints updated. They would not do this without a new home study since Wilson has turned 18.

08/25/15 - Finally out of Haitian court system and we have moved into MOI. We have our official Adoption Decree and their names have been changed with the last name of Miskelly. THEY ARE OURS IN THE EYES OF HAITI.

09/01/15 - Davidson moved over to boys home with CJ and they will be together until we bring them home. They are learning English at American run school.

10/04/15 - Learned that our paperwork would have to be converted from a simple adoption to a pleniere or full adoption. This is the first time in Haiti they have required this law to be followed that was passed in 2013. This will affect several families who are almost finished to turn around and make corrections.