The flu.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Calvin has the flu...thankfully not THE flu. Annie has been under the weather as well.

Annie's transition is still going well. I feel like our bond gets stronger every day. :-)

I still need to edit and post more photos from the homecoming. The ones of Calvin holding his sister for the first time are going to melt your heart! Here are a couple Lisa took of me holding Annie for the first time and breathing her in. The tears started to come but I was able to hold it together. These both were from Monday, April 6th.

Annie laughing!

We are having so much fun finding different ways to make Annie laugh. Nathan is throwing her stuffed animals together (violently, haha!) and I'm pulling and pushing her on a bean bag.

My favorite photos from our first week home.

It's going to be hard to keep this short. I've taken a million photos. I also got my hands on the photos Lisa took in Korea and as soon as I have a chance to resize those I'll post them too.

Annie had her first well baby check up on Monday. She handled it pretty well. She's very healthy and at 9 months old is 19 pounds. That puts her right at the 50th percentile. It's also the weight I estimated that she would be when she arrived home since she's followed that growth curve since birth.

My poor baby has caught her first cold and is all stuffed up and miserable as of last night. Hope it passes quickly!

Exceeded my bandwidth, oops.

I'm going to upgrade to pro as soon as I have a chance and/or upload those photos to blogger instead of photobucket. Sorry about that...

The homecoming.

These above were about 2 minutes after the tearful goodbye with Annie's foster mom. I sat her on the bed and I was sobbing. She must have thought I was a funny sight because she started smiling and laughing at me. That was the first time I ever saw her smile. Cheered me right up!


Not sure if this was the same night or the next morning but she was still smiling!


All dressed and ready to go home.


In the plane waiting for it to take off. We had the whole row (3 seats) to ourselves which was much better than a bulk head/bassinet seat with people on either side of me.



Daddy & Calvin's first time holding Annie



2 of the signs welcoming Annie home


Annie's first bottle with Daddy


Her first bath at home


Here she was after our first stroll around the neighborhood.

Easter photos coming soon...

a couple videos from the afternoon I received Annie for good

We're home!

The flight was good and Annie slept about half way but I didn't sleep a wink. I got motion sickness too - yuck! We arrived at SFO at 4am Korea time (12 noon here) and Immigration took forever. Finally made our way out family. There were at least 12 waiting for us and it was a wonderful moment!

We got home about an hour ago and it's now 9am Korea time and still no sleep for me! I'm somewhat delirious. I think I'll wait a couple more hours to sleep so I can get back on schedule. Hopefully Annie will too. Our friends and neighbors surprised us with beautiful signs and balloons out front welcoming Annie home. Daddy is now feeding his girl a bottle. If she falls asleep I'm going to join her.

Hoping her adjustment home goes well. Thanks for keeping us in your thoughts.