Adoption update...

We rec'd this update from our agency.

Dear Natasha and Mark,
I had so much fun visiting with your two darling, silly, slightly rambunctious two munchkins at Fontamara!
One day, for a whole hour I sat wincing upstairs at Fontamara while Marie Vierge created a master piece with my hair…..I would send you pictures of the end result, but then you would have blackmail on me for the rest of your life! Natasha, I really think you should let her do your hair before church some Sunday! Roberto was his shy, “don’t pay attention to me….but O.K. I really do want you to pay attention to me self”. He loved the Velcro mitt and tennis balls I brought and never could get enough of with playing with them.
They are both doing so well and are happy and well adjusted!

Marie-Vierge’s measurements are:
Height: 44 ½ “
Weight: 37.6 lbs.

Roberto’s Measurements are:
Height: 39”
Weight: 29.3 lbs.

As extra fun and in celebration of the holiday I brought a huge box of dress up clothes for the kids to play with. Boy did they have a blast…Well I’ll reword that, Marie-Vierge thought it was great…Roberto gave me the “What the heck do you want me to wear that for you Crazy Lady” look.
I truly had a wonderful time with your amazing children!
I gave them plenty of hugs and kisses from their Mamma!

Thanks to our friends at Foyer we have these fun pictures!!! The letter perfectly describes our little ones!

I also received an e-mail explaining they are trying something new in hopes of speeding things up in the end. They gave USCIS certified copies of our dossiers so they can begin the orphan investigation which requires an interview with the birthparents. This usually isn't done until the children have their passports. Because USCIS is allowing the investigation to be done with the certified copies we can get that part done at the same time our original dossiers are waiting in the MOI office. MOI approves the dossiers for Haitian passports. Once they are approved they send them to the immigration office who actually prints the passports. The average wait in MOI is 4 months. We are not yet in MOI but hope to be in the next week or two. So, with a little luck... they could be home in April. Of course, we will continue to pray for them to come home soon and would gladly accept a little miracle of an earlier arrival.