The Miskellys' Haitian Adoption Journey: Skype Day Smiles

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Skype Day Smiles

Not much has been going on with our adoption paperwork. I wish we had some good news to report but we do not. On 10/04/15 we learned that our paperwork like everyone else's needed new wording and has to go back through to get some some changes. The word plenary, which means complete and full, has to be added. The law that made this wording necessary was changed back in 2013 and they just started implementing this in September of this year. How about that for timing. We were almost in USCIS. We were sad that day but Chris, the orphanage director, had a surprise for us. She waited until we started Skypeing to remove Davidson's first tooth. It was almost out that morning but she waited until skype time so we could see it come out. That was really special and we can not tell her how much we appreciated this. We have missed so many firsts already.

Skype has been such a blessing to us. I think we would have gone crazy these three plus years without it. Today, we laughed so hard during skype day. We ask them what they want to see and it is usually two things: Jwet (toys) and rad (clothes). Today, we played batman with them and here is the video of this.

That is just great. We can not wait to play with them at home with their toys. The waiting is horrible because we can not do a thing.

Wilson finished his football career at Chester County High School. I wish our Haitian boys could have seen him kick. He ended with 120 points for his career. Madelyn finished her Junior year of High School soccer and is starting basketball. Hopefully, they will be able to see her play her Senior year next year. It would be great if they could see Wilson play soccer in the Spring but we will have to wait and see.

Here are some various picture from this Fall before we go into the holidays.

Most recent picture.

Wilson kicking winning kick vs Lexington High School

Madelyn after winning district in Lexington

Madelyn after District Championship

Most recent picture of Davidson

Most recent picture of CJ

Typical skypeing day

11/15/15

Wilson went over 100 points for his career at the Lexington game and finished with 120 points for his kicking career.

Wish I could hold there hands today.

We miss them so much but we know that one day they will be with us very soon. It is all in God's hands.

Miskelly Family

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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.