Day 1 - Visit with Our Boys

First, apologies for not posting in some time.  Our paperwork is still being converted from a simple adoption to a complete adoption to satisfy the requirements of the U.S. Government.  We have been trying to correct this since last October/2015 and still working on it.  We had some trouble with ID card for Cherdinor's mother and it is just taking longer than our lawyer thought it would.  Our hearts are literally aching to have our boys home, but there is nothing we can do to make this go faster.  We still Skype every first and third Sunday's of every month and laugh and fall in love with them more, but we still long to have them in our arms to hug and hold as soon as possible.  The ironic part of this is that if we had gotten them home a few months earlier we would not have had to go back into the Haitian court system to redo their paperwork.  Oh, well, nothing we can do about all of this.

I did get to lead a medical campaign to Haiti with the Estes Church of Christ in Henderson, TN.  The only sad part was I was the only one of our family who got to go this time.  We went to Santo which is a suburb of port-au-prince.   I was able to go pick the boys up and spend three days of absolute joy with them at our guest house.  I want to make three posts of the trip and do it in pictures.  They became part of the medical team and they helped with the clinic and were just wonderful.   They were well-behaved and polite, and we had a blast.  So here we go....

June 18, 2016...

 

When I picked up the boys they were all smiles.  They were so excited!!!!  This is us in the back of the truck going back to the guest house.  Notice Davidson has lost his front teeth making him so much cuter.  At the time of this visit Cherdinor is 9 and Davidson is 6.

After playing most of the evening we started getting ready for bed and they saw their clothes and shoes for the first time.  Their eyes glowed, and they were so excited a friend had to take a picture for me.  They loved their shoes and church clothes.  Davidson found his belt and gave me a sad face because his pants did not have belt loops.  I quickly showed him his church pants for tomorrow with belt loops and he was back to smiles. 

Shower that night was cold water and you would have thought they were in a water park. They played for almost thirty minutes in the water. 

These are two videos of our night of playing in that hot Haitian guest house.  No air conditioning, but Cherdinor has long sleeves on???    We had a great time.  We slept on the floor on a mattress but they did not complain because they were by my side and loved.

I will post day two soon with more pictures and wonderful stories.

R. Scott Miskelly