Photos of Simon

Hi all! This is Jen's sister, Auntie Karen, adding photos for them. Jen are Joel are having technical difficulties getting the blog to work in Korea. I may be a bit biased but I am pretty sure Simon is the cutest little boy ever!

Photos of Simon

I finally figured out the photo thing - not sure why it needs to be done so differently from here, but anyway here they are.....


Happy boy with foster mom


What he really thought of us :-)


The 3 of us

First Meeting with Simon

We met our Simon today. We think he is absolutely adorable; he doesn't think so much of us. His foster mom said that he is very easygoing and a happy baby. She said that he does not have any stranger anxiety, but we must be stranger than most, because he didn't put up with us holdng him for very long. We did get some cute photos, but they won't upload right now. We will try again tomorrow.

We made it!!!!

While most of you were sleeping soundly in your beds we were........well......not sleeping :-) We landed safely in Seoul around 3:30 pm local time, which was about 2:30 am EST. The trip actually went better than expected - the flight was pretty smooth and we loved the airline we flew. Neither of us got much sleep but we did get to catch up on all the movies we've been missing. We both watched 4 to be exact.

It is about 6:30 pm local time here rght now. We can hear the babies crying in baby center on the floor below us at the guest house and think we might need to go visit them. First, we are off to find something to eat - Joel is hungry :-) We will be heading to bed early tonight as we have been up for over 24 hours and didn't get much sleep the night before.

Tomorrow we meet Simon. We will try to post photos and update again tomorrow!

Good night from Seoul, South Korea!

Updated Information On Our Trip

We will be meeting Simon for the first time on Monday, June 11 at 2:00pm - that will be 1:00 am on Monday for those of you on EST. So, while most of you are fast asleep, we will be holding our sweet boy for the first time :-) We will see him again on Thursday for his pre-flight physical with the doctor at the agency and will get custody of him on Friday afternoon. We don't fly out until Saturday at noon, so we are excited to have him for a bit before boarding the plane (if we were leaving during the work week, we would likely not have gotten custody of him until we were leaving for the airport).

Today we are busy finishing up packing, cleaning the house, running last minute errands and doing fun stuff with Anna. We took her to Build-a-Bear today for the first time, so she could have a new special "friend" while we are away. She LOVED the whole experience. Her bear, named Bearsy, seems to be her new best friend, for now. She knows that we will be carrying Simon in one of our baby carriers quite a bit when we get home and she zoned in right away on a Bearsy sized carrier in the store. Yes, we bought it for her and it is so cute seeing her trotting around with Bearsy securely fastened to her back.

Well, assuming that we can figure out how to get on to the blog and upload photos, our next post will be from South Korea! :-)

Simon's Room

Here are the photos of Simon's room, as promised. We are pretty happy with how it turned out.

Anna LOVED "helping"

The crib with the way cool sailboat quilt from Grandma and Grandpa

"The Wave Wall" - Joel painted the waves and Jen painted the boats and fish

Map of the World on the closet door

Yup, still need to add photos

Close-up of a boat and some fish

Now all it needs it the baby :-)

"Leeeeaaaving on a Jet Plane....."

Yup, that's right - we finally got the call that Simon is ready for us to come pick him up. We got the call on Monday morning, but had a hard time getting the tickets we wanted for when we wanted to go. We finally got everything confirmed late yesterday afternoon - we are leaving on Saturday, June 9 - yes that is THIS Saturday. We will arrive in Korea on Sunday evening, will have 5 full days in country and will leave to come home on Saturday, June 16.

We are waiting to hear when we will actually get to see Simon. We will likely get to visit him a few times during the week and will get custody of him shortly before we are sheduled to leave for home.

I am going to try to post some photos of his newly finished bedroom before we leave - in all my spare time :-)