Happy New Year from Jaline!

Happy New Year from Jaline! 

My new dad came to visit me for a few days this week. I’m in my new orphanage now and it’s SO much better than my old orphanage!!  Actually they call it a crèche (kresh) because there are only certain orphanages in Haiti that kids can be adopted from and those are called crèches.   I’ve been here for two weeks and I’m eating really good!  Doctor Jack and Nurse Marcia, who run my crèche say I’m eating lots and I’m getting healthier.  When I was admitted, Dr. Jack examined me and thinks I’m doing very well developmentally and am quite healthy, other than being quite malnourished.  By the way, I’m up to twenty pounds now!  I was only 15 pounds in October.  They’re making sure I’m eating three good meals each day and I even get snacks twice a day.  I’ve never had so much food in my life!   I wish all my friends in Haiti could eat this well. 

Oh yeah!  Check out my picture:  I’m looking kinda bald right now.  They cut my hair off, but Daddy still says I’m gorgeous!  My hair was getting red and falling out because I’ve been so malnourished.  They say my hair will grow back a lot thicker and healthier now that I’m eating so good.  I still think it looks kinda funny and I can’t wait to get my braids back.  Daddy says I’m beautiful even without my hair.  I can’t understand everything he says, but he knows a little Creole and knows how to tell me I’m beautiful in Creole.

I’m still pretty confused. They tell me he’s going to be my new daddy and I’m going to have a new family, but he had to leave again without me… He keeps coming to visit me and they tell me I’m going to have this new family, but every time he leaves without me.  I wish I understood why I have to wait so long to go home.  I’m sure it will make sense someday but now I’m pretty confused.  My birth Mommy has even told me my new family is going to adopt me and I’m going to have a better life, but it’s all so confusing.  I’ve seen some cool pictures of my new Mommy, my sisters Shelby and Sophie, and my brother Spencer.  I get to keep the pictures by my new bed.  Did I mention I have my very own bed?  I have my own bed, with my own blanket.  My new Daddy brought me a new blanket and a teddy bear.  I’m going to share all the toys and books he brought down on this last trip, but the blanket and bear are mine. 

I’m actually the only child in my new crèche right now, since it’s brand new.  I’m hoping there will be more orphans that come to my crèche soon.  I hope they can leave orphanages like the one I was at and come to a nicer place that will take care of them, just like me.  It would be nice to have some people my own age to play with.   I’m a little spoiled right now, because everyone at my crèche is there to take care of me.  It’s not like the other place I was at before.  They have a nurse here 24 hours a day, in case anyone gets sick.  There is a lady who oversees the crèche and everyone who works here.  There is a day nanny and a night nanny.  There’s a school teacher, who is teaching me some English.  I like to go to school!  There’s a cook who prepares food for the workers and the kids, when more come.  This is in addition to Dr. Jack and Marcia, who oversee everything.  Nurse Marcia makes sure everyone is working hard and is taking good care of me.  The people here are really nice to me and take great care of me but I’m still a bit confused by everything that’s going on lately.

My new Daddy brought down some more paperwork for our lawyer.  It looks like Jean Maudrel has all the right paperwork and the paperwork is finally ready for the Haitian government.  I really have no idea what’s going on with all this paperwork and why it takes so long for kids like me to go to families that want to love and care for them.  I hear there are lots of people all over the place praying for me so I can be adopted as soon as possible.  Thanks for caring about me even though I’ve never met you!  I hope I’ll be able to meet many of you very soon.  They tell my new Daddy it could still take at least a year for me to come to my new home.  I hope not!  Please pray for me! 

Happy New Year!  They say this next year will change my life forever.  I hope this will be an amazing year for you also.  God Bless…