We were so busy today. We left the hotel fairly early afraid we wouldn't figure out how to get from the hotel to Holt using the subway. We figured it out a lot quicker than we thought and made it there 1 1/2 hours early...ooops! So, we asked if we could go to the Reception Center to hold the babies there. She gave us directions and let us go. We found it pretty easily too. They were so sweet! There were five in each room. There were the ones that were about 5 months and up and the ones under in another room. One little girl in the big baby room smiled and smiled. There was a little guy with downs syndrome that really liked to move...kinda dancing. I held a little boy that was just huge! We moved to the little babies room and held them too. Though there was one little one still in an isolate that was just days old. She was very sweet. One baby slept the whole time. I picked up the little girl closest to me, who was about 4 months old. I was going to put her down to pick up the little guy Lois had because she swore he wanted me and she got really mad. As soon as I picked her back up she was fine. She just melted into you and sat there. We said goodbye to all the babies and the sweet workers in the rooms after almost an hour and walked back for our meeting with Chelsi's foster mother.
Chelsi's foster mother was so happy to see her. She told us the things she remembered about Chelsi. Apparently Chelsi cried a lot. I can't even imagine that. She really doesn't cry that often now. She remembered how chubby she was...that's very true! She said recently she was the only girl she'd ever had in 6 years and 12 babies. Chelsi's only the 2nd to come back to see her so far. We gave her the gifts we put together and she gave us some things. I got a little Korean fan and the girls got hair stuff....which Kaelin grabbed very quickly. We also got some ginseng tea, so Brian will try that out. We took lots of pictures and talked for awhile then headed out to catch the subway to SWS. The foster mother did say she would try to email again. She'd tried off of the email I put in some old letters, but she said it didn't work.
We figured out way to SWS from Holt pretty quickly too. We got a lot of stares on that long ride. Couldn't tell what they were thinking though. We found SWS. Walking from the station to SWS was a little harder to find than Holt, but we did find it. We were a little early there too. The subways are very fast! We gave our gifts to the director and also delivered a gift from another SWS family to the director for the birthmother and fostermother of a child. We then got a taxi with our case worker and went to the foster mother's house. She came to find us and we went up to their place. We went in and took our shoes off to sit and play. We had an hour. First, we got to just play with Jaemin alone because the case worker was asking the foster mother questions about his habits so she can type it up for us. Then we all just kind of talked a bit and exchanged gifts. We got his hanbok, a Korean/English baby's first bible kind of book (so cute) and a huge photo album of pictures. The foster mother said Jaemin knows what particular clothes they wear to go outside and gets so excited because he loves to go out. He also loves the water and having his feet played with. We ate ice cream later. Jaemin has the sweetest laugh. He thought Lois, Kaelin and Chelsi playing ball was hilarious. He smiled a lot! He didn't look for his foster mother as much as I thought he would, while I held him. I truly expected him to cry when I picked him up, but not one bit. He kissed me a lot. That sweet open mouth baby kiss! He held onto my shoulder and if I sat him a bit in front of me he turned and reached back. Melt my heart! I pray Thursday and Friday go as well when he leaves his foster mother behind completely. BTW, he's HUGE! He's a big, solid boy! And he can crawl fast! She says he's pulling up too, so we're going to be very busy. Lois doesn't think the clothes I have will fit. :) It was hard to say goodbye, but we'll be back soon and have him for the night. I'll post pictures of all of this at a later date when I decide which pictures are safest to post and Brian sees his pictures first.
Now, for the funniest part of the day. When we were on our way back from the Reception Center to Holt agency, we had to cross the street. The arrows were going down so we were running out of time. I was carrying Chelsi and Lois was running across with Kaelin. She had these heelish shoes on and apparently looked back for Chelsi and I and all I saw was her sailing to the ground and she took Kaelin with her. Just short of the curb, but still in front of a car. We grabbed the stuff they dropped and went on and Kaelin barely had a scrape on her leg, but Lois cut herself. We've been laughing about it all day because when Lois fell all I could see was Kaelin flying to the ground and when she landed her arms and legs were spread out as she laid there on the ground. It really was pretty funny, so we've been giving Lois a hard time the rest of the day.
Anyways, going for the night and no pics tonight. Tomorrow all we have is to go to Eastern to meet Kaelin's foster mother. We'll sight see a little more Thursday morning and then go get Jaemin at 4:00 pm. Friday we should get to leave.
Can't wait to return with him. Keep us in your prayers.
Lisa
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