It’s official…Emeline is a M*****man!

Another picture of Emeline from the first day we met. (age 11 weeks)

On the hammock with Daddy in Guatemala.

Emeline with a toy her Mimi sent her in October--around 8 months old.
Emeline at her November doctor's appointment--around 9 months old.

It seems like months since we found out we are out of PGN, but is has only been 2 weeks! We have been very busy getting ready for baby. Chris is also preaching his first real sermon in German next week, so he has been busy preparing for that among other things. I have been putting together baby furniture and working on Emeline’s room.

We got some very good news yesterday…sooner than expected. Emeline’s new birthcertificate is done and so is her passport. This means her birthmother signed for us to be able to adopt her for the fourth and final time. It also means that she is officially a M*****man as she now has our last name on her birthcertificate and passport. She is in every legal way our daughter. WE HAVE A DAUGHTER!!!

What next? Now, her final DNA test has been taken and sent to a lab to make sure it matches the original DNA taken when she was a couple of months old at the beginning of this process. To all Guatemala parents out there that means we are ORANGE! (The US Embassy gives our attorney permission to do the second DNA test on an orange piece of paper, which why it is now as known as being ORANGE). Her DNA has been sent to a lab somewhere now to be processed. In the next week or so, her DNA results will be sent to the US Embassy in Guatemala. At that point the US Embassy will give us a date for our final appointment to get our VISA to bring Emeline into the USA. That is known as getting PINK, because it is given on a pink slip of paper. When we get this appointment, we will go to Guatemala to get Emeline. We can’t believe it is finally happening! So, we are now waiting to be PINK. Confused yet? Good. So far we have not had to meet any new requirments because of new laws, and this part of the process is going smoothly. Our prayers are working!

Please keep praying Emeline HOME!