A little about the changes going on in Korean adoption.

I rarely say much about this. All-in-all I think it's a great step for South Korea and their children.

Now that being said, I know this article is old, but this part of it bothers me some;

"While adoption is considered as a way to carry out spirit of noblesse oblige or giving help to society abroad, Koreans tend to choose adoption for getting pure joy of rearing children,''' said Cho Min-hye, an official at the Mission to Promote Adoption in Korea."

I believe, and this is only my opinion, that the vast majority of adoptive parents abroad do not at all view adoption, from any country, as "noblesse oblige or giving help to society abroad". Yes, there is publicity on occasion of the Hollywood folks adopting and mentioning this, but most of us 'regular' families do not view adoption in that regard.

To be honest, our family has NEVER viewed the adoption of our two South Korean born daughters as saving a child or helping anyone. The only way we've viewed it is that we prayed for more children, couldn't have them biologically anymore due to reasons of a personal nature, and we truly believe they just happened to be born in Korea. We love our daughters as much as we would if they were biologically born to us. And yes, as any other family who continues to give birth to additional children, we wanted more for the joy of raising them.

I hope that the wonderful people living in South Korea, our daughter's homeland and a piece of our hearts, understand the reasons behind most adoptions abroad. They are, very much, for the love of our children as they are, "our children".

Some videos of Chels Chels

Click here to see some of Chelsi from today playing with blocks video and having a GREAT time!

Here are some videos I combined over the past several months.  Her personality has REALLY started to come out.

Chase’s first play date without mom and dad.

This is new territory to me.  He's been away from us to be with relatives (grandma and grandpa), but never people I don't really know.  I felt kind of overprotective when his friend's mom left a message asking if he could spend sometime at their house and wanted to call back and say "well, I need to talk to and meet you first".  I was so relieved when I called to say that and she said she totally understood and does the same thing with her kids.  WHEW!

 Tonight after work I went over there with him and while the boys played me and Wes' mom chatted for almost an hour to get to know each other more.  It helps that Brian's aunts and uncles live so close and know them, I felt a little better.  His mom was SO nice and the boys really did seem to have a lot in common.  So I left to come home and Chase ate dinner with them.  He got to stay for a little over an hour without mom or dad and when he got home he said he couldn't wait to go back.  The boys had such a good time.

 Big step for this momma!

Our latest pictures including Halloween

Halloween was tiring for all of us.  1 1/2 hours of trick or treating is wearing, but family would be kind of upset if they didn't get to see our vampire, goofy grim reaper, princess and fairy princess.  We have SO much candy!  Of course, mom and dad will take care of the chocolate....I mean you wouldn't want the caffeine on top of the sugar, right?  It was a tad chilly at around 40 degrees, but survivable and what kid in their right mind is going to complain until they get a fair amount of candy.  We even put the candy we were giving out, outside on the porch and left our front light on.  People really did take it on the honor system.  We cam home later and there was still some candy in the bowl.

All four of our trick or treaters.....had to leave Chase's red eye in this time.

Here are our princesses pre-makeup and glitter.

 And, our little fairy princess after all that trick or treating.

Well, here's Chelsi the other day when she was having snack.  That daylight savings ending is just havoc on little ones! 

Go Cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After a day like today it's so good that the Cardinals won the 2006 World Series tonight!!!!  Everyone in our house is happy!!  The new stadium must have been good luck.

What we do when we’re bored….

Okay, even Chelsi thought this was funny.

Chelsi’s getting her synagis!!!!!

After pestering the heck out of the specialty pharmacy through our insurance and the insurance company themselves, they approved her.  Home health will begin coming to our house next month for the shots!!!  Of course, we have to hurdle this again with the change in insurance companies in January, but one thing at a time.

 Now hopefully, she'll be a healthy girl this year!!