Update on Second Referral

I talked to the adoption agency yesterday and we are going to wait until one of the staff members of the agency takes a trip to Haiti on March 2, to get our second referral. They have gotten in some new baby girls at the orphanage and they would like her to evaluate them before making a referral for us. The woman going is named Candy, and her trip is only until March 6, so we should know when she gets home who are little girl will be. I can't wait to know her name and see her picture, but it does help a little bit having Wadner's referral, we are passing the time with getting copies of his picture made, buying him a few toys and clothes, etc.

There are a lot of steps and it is very confusing to keep up with all of it, but everything seems to be moving along smoothly so far. Our paperwork will be sent to be legalized this week, which takes about 1 week, and then it will be sent to Haiti. We are hoping that are paperwork is in Haiti by March 1st, and then Diana, the program director of the adoption agency, said it should go into IBESR (Haiti's version of social services) right away. We are happy to hear that because from what I understand, once your documents get to Haiti, it could be several weeks until it goes into IBESR. Once we are in IBESR and assigned a file number, I will update with our file number and about how long are file will be in IBESR (from what I have heard recently, this part of the process is taking about 6 months). I am keeping my fingers crossed that everything continues to move as well as it has seemed to so far!