Howard went into the bedroom. He went to the closet first and put his hand up on the shelf...and said all the important papers were gone including Dannielynn's birth certificate.
Then, there must have been a cut...because I believe the next clip was the one of him sitting on the bed holding the album open.
I don't know about anyone else, but I never got a birth certificate (or even a copy) for any of my children. They were filed in the records office and not by me.