A Boy or a Girl??

I have had lots of you ask: Where we are in the adoption process, What sex are you adopting, What's the age??? So, here is the update....  We are requesting a little girl, 1-3 years old.  Hopefully the little girl will be younger than Levi.  We are about  3/4 of the way through our USA paperwork : this includes our home study, FBI fingerprinting, psychological evaluation, collection of a ton of paperwork, and having paperwork notarized/county and state certified.  The next step is to have everything translated into French.  Haitians speak Creole, however their national language is French.  After the translation, we will then send 4 of the documents to the Haitian Consulate in Chicago.  Once we receive those back we will send all of our paperwork to Haiti (about 30 pages called: dossier).
We are adopting from Dr.Bernard at http://www.newlifelink.org/.  The children that are being adopted from our church's orphanage in Jeremie will be sent here too. New life link is like a transition home for orphans.  The orphans will receive improved medical care, have running water, better living conditions etc.  There is a guest home attached to the orphanage where Chad and I can stay.  Many missionary teams stay here too.  We will hopefully have our referral in the next few months, and learn details about our daughter!

P.S. The picture above is from my June medical mission to Haiti. These orphans were holding their charts and waiting patiently to be seen.  One thing that was heart breaking to see, was the women and children wearing their "Sunday best" to come to our clinic.  We treated 100s of people from the village (along with all of the orphans).  The people dressed up to come and see us, they squeezed their children into shoes(that were falling apart or too small) and had them in "dressy clothes".  The were so respectful and grateful for our treatment. Some waited 8 hours and walked for miles, and never complained once.  This just brought tears to my eyes.  We take for granted being able to drive right over to Walgreens for some cold meds or prescriptions, everything here in America is right at our disposal.  I am so thankful that I had the opportunity to see how others live.