June 2012 Katie makes first trip to Haiti
August 2012 D Day - Decision to adopt Day
September-November 2012 compile dossier
Home Study
dossier apostilled in Austin, TX
dossier legalized at Haitian consulate in Orlando, FL
dossier shipped to Haiti from Florida
November 2012 received phone call with referrals (at Disney World)
November 2012 Mark and Katie flew to Haiti to meet a 3 year old girl and baby boy
fingerprints
January 20, 2013 baby boy very, very sick (in hospital for about a week)
February 2013 Haiti IBESR open, but not accepting dossiers yet
April-May 2013 told IBESR will likely open and accept 2012 dossiers
May 7, 2013 find out that the children's aunt took them to live with her
May 10, 2013 unofficial referral of new kids: 2 year old boy and baby girl
May 15-19 Mark and Katie flew to Haiti for parent weekend & meet new kids
May 21, 2013 dossier is accepted in Haiti's IBESR! We got a case number!
end of summer, early fall 2013 found out that both our creche AND the American director of
the agency we were using were corrupt
fall 2013-January 2014 praying about what to do (without an adoption decree, we have no
legal say in the children's welfare, but they desperately needed to be
moved)
December 2013 little boy turns 3
January 7, 2014 receive a call connecting us to a Private Investigator in Haiti. He
was helping another family remove their child from the creche when
our birth mother* overheard and joined them. She said she wanted
the children to be adopted and asked where they could go for that to
happen. HUGE MIRACLE!
January 14, 2014 PI picked up mother* and children and took them to the new creche
January 15, 2014 children under new care and medical attention (baby girl severely
malnourished and fighting a bad infection; little boy not much better)
January 15, 2014 told that our adoption should and could happen, but would have to
start from scratch. The mother* was not actually their mother, but
aunt. Their mother had passed away.
Family will have to appear in court and set the records straight, then
new and truthful paperwork would be done (once the children's
dossier is accurate, adoption can continue)
January 2014 baby girl turns 1
