PICKUP ALERT! THEY ARE HOME!
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We have Wil, Widline and Scheinaiding actually ENROUTE to their new homes right this moment! (Last we heard they were sitting at Chili’s in the Dallas airport feeding their kids pizza and chicken fingers LOL)
Ella Fleurentina should be next to go home, and then we have scads more either WITH passports or also on the precipice of having their passports.
Many kids will go home this summer! 
HERE THEY ARE AT HOME! HAPPY NEW FAMILIES!
Wil in Canada
Olivia (Schenaiding) in Canada
Maddy (Widline) in Canada
Standing on the Precipice of Passports
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We have 4 kids poised for passports…
Wil, Ella Fleurentina, Widline, and Scheinaiding
These will likely be the next group to go home. The moms stand at the ready, fingers on the mouse button to “click” to book their flights. Jen, Natalia, and Christina will soon be traveling and we will have 3 new Canadians and one new American.
Get ready!
Recent Movement
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Hello Blog visitors!
PAC has recently had a lot of file movement.
7 files are recently out of MOI, and 8 more just went in.
2 files just came out of IBESR
At PAC, files MOVE!
Farewell and Welcome Home to our Home Boys
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We are ecstatic for two of our original “Home Boys” who have been with Marie since the BEGINNING of PAC, that they are finally going home to Florida today, June 12, 2008. They have been a fixture at PAC. We all know and love them, (Gyrlande and I even named our dog after the younger brother…well, okay, that was because the name means “little boy” in Kreyol, not because our dog reminded us of the real boy!)
We couldn’t be happier for these 2 brothers, originally from Cite Soleil. Marie will likely be able to visit them when she goes to see her family in Florida.
Here are the first few photos we ever saw of them, and today!!
This first one was taken on a date unknown, but looks to be VERY early. Maybe early 2005 or 2004.
Welcome Home Handsome Boys!
PAC Circa Fall 2005
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We first sent Granny Bin over to PAC in the Fall of 2005 to get some official pictures for the fledgling website. She had the whole gaggle of kids come down for some posed group shots (along with Nerlande and Marly).
Here was the original gaggle!
This was the first time they met Granny Bin, so understandably this was all a big mystery to them. Gyrlande’s opinion of having a photo shoot with a strange lady was…
School’s in Session!
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We had a mom JUST come back with wonderful photos of the kids who were in school when they came by. The first thing I said was “OHHHHH LOOK AT THOSE UUUNIIIFFFOORRRMMMSSS!!” This is PAC’s first school with uniforms! I thought they were actually the CUTEST Haitian school uniforms i’ve ever seen!
PAC kids now go to school from 8-1 every weekday. Our visiting policy now works around this schedule, and we will soon be transitioning visits to a set week each month, to lessen the chaos for both the kids and Marie. We think it will allow visitors more “face time” with Marie as well. We have had the most permissive visiting policy probably of any orphanage in Haiti! We still may, we just have to keep our chaos to one week a month.
Trips to allow groups of parents to file their i600 papers will be scheduled either during the monthly visit trips, if there aren’t too many, or separately if need be.
As usual, I’ll let the photos do the talking And watch carefully for our fave thing, the “happy nanny” shot! It’s in there!
A New Family…..Thank you Julie!
Videos for Fun
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I know people love to see the kids in action at the O, so here’s some for ya!
I was intending to have a conversation but it turned into “Simon Says Repeat!”
Maxwell—resident PAC1 terror and extremely happy little kid!
Vio, our head nanny, tickles Rosella
more coming…
New Photo Post April 2008
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Again I’ll let the recent photos from PAC do the talking! These kids look great!
TRISTYN AND FALYNE (OBERLINE AND FEDELINE) ARE HOME!
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A huge congratulations to our 2 newest American Citizens, Tristyn and Falyne, who have just come home to Oregon. Their new Mommy is busy and overwhelmed and giddy and ecstatic and sleepless and…..a million other things I am sure. She will send us photos when she has the chance!
Two more kids home! All Right! Here is their opinion of being at home with Mom!
Woop Woop! Go Mama, we’re your kiddos, Go Mama, here we are now….!
Next we should have some Canadian kids going home, ad our Fab Four going to Florida, should be soon!
G’s First Visit Back To Haiti - Part 2 - Reunion
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Here was the big reunion! Marie scooped her up and told all the vendors in the street outside the orphanage that her baby who had gone home had come back to see her! Marie wanted a “ti ba”, a little kiss, but G was almost more interested in pointing out the goat that was walking down the street! She looked at things that she never noticed before, but we don’t have here, as amazing things….she pointed out every tap tap and every animal she saw in the street….fascinating things! Before she would not have given them a second glance.
Marie loves to surprise people, and I don’t think she told folks G was coming for a visit! She is very pleased with herself that she surprised everyone! You can hear her say “Vio……surprise!!” Vio is the head nanny, and not given to a lot of emotion but as i know her well, she was VERY happy to see G! G does not like to be the center of oohing and aahing in front of a lot of people, so she was a little subdued, and I’m sure just beginning to process the fact that she was back in a place she spent 1.5 years, sometimes sad sometimes not too sad. You can see Vio look her in the eyes and ask her “Ou oke?” Are you ok? And she nods. Then Vio uses her small amount of English to say “My name is Vio. What is your name?” Then later, Marie asks her “Do you want to go up and see your friends?”
G had forgotten her Kreyol by the time we took this trip. I was paranoid that this would kind of freak her out, but she was fine with ordering everyone around in English the whole time.
When G went upstairs, it was exactly like Jesus blessing the masses. She caressed each and every little face and head, with that same Mona Lisa expression. Most of these kids were new to G, but a few were there that she remembered. I would have given a million dollars to know what she was thinking.
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