Updates

We’re finishing up Evan’s paperwork here. I got all my Chilean paperwork sorted, that was a complete miracle as it was quite messed up (to put it nicely), that took long enough. It’s a long story about why but the short version is that my name was spelt wrong on my passport and therefore on Evan’s birth certificate, so had to change my passport and all of my Chilean residency papers in order to change his birth certificate (this took a couple of months.) And once I went to change my papers they wouldn’t accept my passport because my middle name was abbreviated. So had to go back to the embassy and get that one changed etc, etc. All this has taken over 6 months. So now I just finished Evan’s Chilean paperwork, changed his birth certificate and got him a Chilean passport so now I just need to get him either American or Belgian citizenship here. The Belgian one is going to take a while, at least 2-3 months, the consulate told me, so we’re going on Monday to see about getting him American citizenship, which apparently takes less then 2 weeks. Please pray for that, that it goes smoothly and easily, I’ll be so relieved once this paperwork is over.
Evan turns 10 months tomorrow. He claps his hands to say please, and he waves and can pull himself up and walk along the edge of a table. He can say cat, dog, car and I think I heard him say bus once but I’m not totally sure. Whenever we do flashcards with him or the Baby Einstein video flashcards, he tries to repeat the word that we say although most of them come out sounding like “da.” I’m trying to get him to say mama but he can’t quite manage that word yet.