Lunch with Dr. Kim and 2nd meeting with Grant

This morning we had our lunch with the President of the adoption agency with other families that are here this week.  We watched a little movie about the history of the agency and all the services they provide for unwed mothers, children and the disabled.  Then we had a traditional Korean meal which was very delicious.  It is so nice that Dr. Kim takes the time to meet with families each week and have lunch with them.  You can tell she cares deeply for the children and is very sad about the lack of government support for unwed mothers and domestic/international adoption in Korea.  And unfortunately with the new law it is just getting worse, more children needing families and less families that are able to adopt.

Then on a brighter note we had our second visit with Grant this afternoon!  It was amazing.  He was wearing Auden's old overalls we sent last year and actually matched the shorts Auden had on today.  They looked so cute together.  Auden did better today and we did a better job of not giving Grant all of our attention and praising Auden for when he did a good job.  We were especially proud of Auden when Grant had a fall off of the slide and was crying and Auden gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek to comfort him.  

Cody and I are SO smitten with this little guy!  He is such a smart, fun and adorable kid!  He makes us laugh so much and we honestly feel like we hit the jackpot!  His personality is amazing.  He seems like such a happy and cool little dude.  And again, we can't get over how smart he seems in the only two hours we have spent with him.  

Our social worker confirmed that she hopes to hear of our preliminary approval by the end of this week and hopefully we can take custody of Grant on Monday or Tuesday of next week!  Gosh, we hope that is reality!  It would be amazing if he was ours forever a week from today.  I know it's going to be rough the first days, especially because he definitely still prefers Cody over me...but we can't wait to get on with our new life as a family of four.  He is such a perfect addition.  We can't wait for everyone to meet him, we know you will all fall in love with him too!  We feel so incredibly lucky and blessed!  

Grant loves hiding things from us and then asking where they are with his hands out like this, it is the CUTEST!  Here he hid the yellow balloon in the play refrigerator door and he was asking us where it went!  He is such a fun, smart, adorable kid!

In Korea, before toddlers can start saying phrases, they teach them to say "I love you" by putting their arms over their heads in the shape of a heart.  His foster mom tells him to do this and on cue, he does it....so adorable!  She said every night after she snuggles him in bed he does this sign to her before he goes to sleep, aweeeee!  

    

I wanted pictures of us with his foster mom because every toddler adoption book says you should do a "three picture story" from the very beginning to show to the child.  The first picture will be of him and the foster mom, the second picture is of our new family with the foster mom (showing her approval of giving him to us), and the third picture will be our new family of four.  Some people laminate it to show the child within weeks of getting home to help them understand what happened and that their foster mom didn't abandon them.  We got some fun shots below:-)