Yay!!! Video!!!

We have a little book about an elephant sneezing - and when we got to the end and said "Atchoo!" she just laughed. And so on this particular night, she was in good spirits and was just giggling away. This is the hardest we've seen her laugh so far. I just get a kick out of it.

Picture post :)

So let's start with a few bed head pictures as promised from the previous post.

I don't know if this picture quite does it justice, but I really did laugh out loud for a little while when I got her from this nap. It was awesome.

When she eats, she'll like her lips and therefore deposit some of her of her food into a nice "gotee" effect.

She's standing really well, even for a few seconds at a time on her own. And I loved this outfit; so I had to take a picture ;). Thanks Heather and Casey for the shirt!

I was putting her in her high chair for supper and was standing over her when I put her bib on. When I stepped back, I saw what an excellent job I did and just kept laughing while daddy took a picture. Poor kid, we're her parents...

So I realize at this point, I'm just talking about my kid on all these posts. But after a long wait, it's fun to see who she is and introduce her to you. And, I don't get out much :).

Another edition of what's "in" at the Joneses

• Awesome bed head - for baby, and sometimes for mommy too. I just burst out laughing when I got her from her nap today. Her hair was super awesome - mashed against and up one side of her head and poofy on the other. I've got a picture that I'll post soon.
• Planet Earth DVD's - yes, you can call us nerds, but they're incredible to watch. The latest one we watched was about caves... with the most disturbing scene so far - there's a cave they showed that has a 100 meter high pile of bat droppings with, as they described it, a carpet of cockroaches. Unreal. But really, there's some much more beautiful footage. I bet you didn't expect to read about that today! :)
• Rootbeer floats - having a small one every night :) (while watching a planet earth DVD with Aaron :).
• In the last 2 days, taking the baby out for a walk. The weather has been absolutely lovely. Yesterday we went for our first long stroller ride. I couldn't tell if she was loving it or not, but for most of the time yesterday and when we went today, she sits upright with a hand in each cup holder and looks around.
• Eating frozen meals - I had made some stuff and frozen it - so we've been eating that which has been great. Not that I don't feel like I can handle cooking at the moment, but it's been nice not to have to worry about it And my mom made us a lasagna to freeze, and she makes awesome lasagna.
• Listening to talk radio - keeping up with the news since we're not watching much TV. But really I like talk radio, and I've gotten Aaron hooked on it as well :).

So that's a little of what we're up to here :). Much love from the Joneses!

My Little Sweet Potato!

I baked sweet potatoes for lunch yesterday and cut up little pieces for Liv to eat. She enjoyed them and kept smiling as I called her my little sweet potato :).

So here's another cluster post of pictures. We'll keep working on the video - not sure whey they're not posting... I'll see if Aaron can try again tonight.

Happy girl in the sunshine :).

After we she eats, I always give her her bottle - as much as she'll drink anyway. So here she is hangin' with daddy.

It was SO nice yesterday that we had to go for a stroller ride.

Friends of our gave her a little pink monkey which she LOVES. When we give it to her she'll hold it or just fall on it on the floor. And she sucks her first finger instead of her thumb.
Here she is coming through her little tunnel toy. Also, the barrette fighting a losing battle :).

I did it!

"How big is Livie?!?... So Big!" She likes this one and will smile. And she's "so big" having now reached 10 months.

Aaron thinks she gave him a kiss today. He said she leaned over with her mouth open touched his mouth - sounds like a baby kiss to me :). Our challenge is still sleep. It seems like stress or sadness manifest in her sleep. She'll seem fine at the time, but the true test is how she'll sleep that night. Last night we didn't do the greatest. She woke up in a fit at 11:30 and then was up from 4-6 this morning. She woke up at 7:30 this morning, and Aaron and I just struggled out of bed. There she was just smiling away! No problems here! :). But technically Saturday night she did sleep through the night - she woke up at 5, but she did sleep through the night. But we're doing well. We're making strides in attachment from what I can tell. I don't think we're all the way there yet, but I continue to see progress and ways that she'll come to us or turn to us. I'm always encouraged by those things.

So there's another healthy dose of the baby - we'll continue to keep you posted! We love you all.

Happy Friday :)

Aaron has tried multiple times last night and tonight to upload a great video we took yesterday, but it just will not go! We're not sure why. So we'll try to get some more pictures and video up soon. We've had a couple good nights of Liv only waking up once in the night. That has been good. I got some sleep last night which has been very helpful :).

Liv continues to do well. She's eating and playing and even stands for a few seconds on her own. She's just such a little peanut to see her move around. She like Wheel of Fortune :). We've watched that a few nights with her. I think it's the noise and color and lights that keep her attention. It's almost scary how a little one can stay tuned into the TV; so we're trying to keep that to very little time. But it's still funny to see her love a game show :). I haven't even tried the Price is Right - she'd be hooked on that for sure :).

I didn't know we had any, but apparently yesterday I pulled her crabby pants out of the closet cause she was grouchy :). My mom thinks she's teething, and I think she's right. I don't feel any teeth on top yet, but I'm sure they're on their way.

Sorry we haven't been very social. We're trying to keep new people introduced to her to a minimum. She's adjusting well, but I think people can be a lot for her. It's hard to not just show her off to everyone we know :). But as much as possible I don't want to overwhelm her. It's hard for me to believe it's only been a week and a half that we've been home. So we want to give her time. Again, thanks for sharing in our joy - we continue to enjoy having our little girl home. We'll continue to keep you updated. We love you!

100 Blessing Quilt

Somehow we didn't find out about this despite all the people that knew, but my wonderful neighbor along with a very sweet woman from church put together the most beautiful gift I've ever seen. Many of you donated fabric to put together into what's called a 100 blessing quilt. My neighbor, Barb - a sewing genius - put together the quilt, and Sue - craft master - put together the blessings with their matching scrap of fabric into a scrap book. The squares are made into lanterns. The surrounding fabric is pink with black Asian character writing and gold leaves - it just fits Liv perfectly. It's just beautiful, and we'll put it on her big girl bed when we get there. The pictures really don't do it justice.

THANK YOU Barb and Sue - thank you, thank you, thank you! And thank you to all of you who contributed. Such a precious gift. We were just so blessed and touched by your love.

Get Ready - Here comes the pictures

Happy Girl!
Loves to look and play and doesn't hold still for long...
Baby Liv and Mamma :)
She loves books - mostly to chew on.
She sleeps in just about any position.

Doing great with the rice cereal!
Right after my bath!
Me and Pappa after my bath :)

I stand so well!

Good solid nap...
Ready to go for a ride!

Well, there's a bunch of pictures for you - hope you like them! That's a good sampling of this first week together - hard to believe that just a week ago we were packing up and getting ready to fly 12 hours home. It's incredible all that's happened! Have to admit I'm glad I don't have another 12 hour trip waiting for me in the morning. I'm glad to wait awhile to do that again with a 9 month old in a very small seat. But we love her! She's well worth it all and more :).

Bring on the Lovin'

Grandmas and grandpas came today - along with toys, clothes, diapers, lunch, and lots of attention! (Thank you for all of it!!!) So it was fun to have them meet her, and they were just taken with her. It's funny, I just feel like I can go on and on about how cute she is because I had absolutely nothing to do with it - not my genes, not a baby I picked out of a line-up, this is just the little one God blessed us with.

She took a pretty good nap this afternoon. We were all downstairs watching the footage that Aaron had taken in Korea. We heard sounds in her monitor, but I thought she'd still be sleeping cause she makes noises in her sleep. Nope, she was standing at the edge of her pack-n-play just looking and smiling. So sweet and pretty happy when she wakes up - and willing to respond to all the attention of the grandmas and grandpas. Last night we made a few more good steps in the right direction to sleeping through most of the night. I don't even care if she wakes up in the night, it's the staying up for hours that it would be good to help her adjust out of. We're getting there. I'll post some more pictures very soon, and hopefully Aaron will put up another video. Even though baby slept better last night, mamma woke up and was up for hours. I think my clock is still messed up. So I'm going to bed shortly here in hopes of more sleep tonight.

I was thinking today about how to describe her personality. She really is a sweet baby - curious and active, but not demanding. But she does just hate getting dressed. She's pretty squirmy and moves quite a bit but will also cuddle, especially when tired. She's smart - she seems to remember where stuff is or knows how to try to get to it. She's pretty quick to smile and laugh and loves when you repeat what she's saying or when you say her Korean name. That she definitely knows and looks at you and smiles when you say it. So we're just enjoying her, and it's hard to believe that a week ago we were eating cook your own beef Korean style :). She is such a sweet, sweet blessing. Well, I really am off to bed now. Also, thanks so much for your notes, messages, and emails of congratulations and encouragement. We are so grateful to have so many that share in our joy of this new daughter God has given us. Sorry we've been slow to respond to many of them. Slowly we're figuring life out and will start to re-engage in the normal day-to-day. We love you all!

Hail Mary

Also, forgot to add that our baby monitor (on both channels I should add) tunes into a catholic talk radio station. So at various times you can hear the faint, fuzzy recitation of prayers or sermons. We can still hear the baby, but there's still always the faint hum of the radio station.

Choose your title: Arrival at customs or Sancho the pack mule

I wondered if a customs agent would've seen us videotaping if our camera would've been apprehended, but they didn't and it wasn't. So video takes a long time to upload; so we'll keep trying to get nuggets posted... and more of Liv as well. Aaron posted the octopus - I'm sure what you all were waiting for :). He got lots of quality cultural footage :). And yes, that was just set up in the open air market - choose your own "stir fry" type of thing, some chicken and beef but a lot of other random things...

We made a small step forward on sleep last night, but she took a solid 3 1/2 hour nap mid-morning, and that's never a good sign for solid night sleep. She mostly sleep for 2 hours at a time. Mom took a solid 4 1/2 hour nap today :). I got up with Liv, and Aaron took her at 9. So I laid down then, Liv went down at 10, and we both woke up at 1:30. Aaron was contentedly watching 24.

Korea video

This is kind of a trial run for us to post video. So we started with this little nugget from our time at an outdoor market in Korea. I thought that octopus would be kind of a novalty dish, but it's actually pretty much everywhere (even in the airplane food!). Don't worry we'll post some Livie footage soon.

16 pounds, 9 ounces of fun

So, I need to go to bed shortly, but we had our appointment at the pediatrician's office this morning. Liv is 16 pounds, 9 ounces and about 26 1/2 inches long - the 10th percentile for both so she's a little thing. We're still getting our schedules figured out which isn't surprising. She slept from 8-10:30 last night and then was up until 2:30. We sorted mail and played in her nursury from 12-1 and then watched the episode of Survivor I'd taped from 1-2 (of course we did not fast forward through the commercials) :). Then we came up and woke up daddy :). She fell asleep at 2:30. I'm getting a cold and just could not fall asleep. The baby woke up at 5:30 - my wonderful husband got her and I slept from 6-9. And another family nap this afternoon :). So I'm headed for bed. But overall we're still doing good! Eventually we'll get our days and nights figured out! It's still amazing to me that even after a short time she is so comfortable with us. I'm sorry we haven't posted video yet, but we'll get some up shortly. Good night!

A few pictures

The batteries in our camera died - so the recent ones from the trip home are all on Cindy's camera. Here's a couple we took today after a Walmart run to get some things including a few batteries. We've got some video which we need to go through; so we'll hopefully post some soon.

Here's Liv and daddy on the kitchen floor :).

The exer-saucer has been a hit and keeps her attention. We put her in there in our room for a little bit to be with us while we got our suitcases unpacked.

Now 3 at Home :)

We're home! I made a mistake on my last post that we were coming home today, but we actually came back yesterday. We landed in Chicago at 10:40 and Minneapolis at 3. We stopped at Cory and Cindy's for a little bit and got back to Eau Claire at about 7. It's SO good to be home and SO good to be in my own bed. I woke up at 3:30 am Seoul time on Tuesday and didn't sleep again until about 10 last night. So now I've have a few rounds of sleep and am starting to feel better. All of our internal clocks are out of whack, but we're getting there.

So, now what you really want to know - how's the baby! She's SUPER awesome! We are really enjoying her. We left the agency Tuesday morning, and she had to leave her foster mother. She fussed a little, but did okay and fell asleep and stayed asleep until we were at our gate. It was hard to see the foster mothers and the separation they were experiencing. We were a part of 6 families that left the agency with their children. There were tears on both sides. Then Dr. Kim prayed for all of us. He's said this prayer probably hundreds or thousands of times and multiple times a week I'm sure. But he still teared up as he prayed. Then he went around and put his hand on each child, and there were tears running down his cheeks. He's really an amazing man with such an awesome heart. I feel so honored that we were able to meet him.

Liv woke up at our gate and was smiling and moving around (ps - the carrier I got is awesome. Liv loves it and will sleep or look around.) Overall, she did amazing on the plane ride home. Thanks so much for praying for us. The Lord was definitely with us. We fed her her bottles, then she's squirm around (we ended up in seats in the middle with people behind and infront of us; so there was nowhere for her to go) and after fussing a little and then would sleep. She took a few 2 hour naps which was great. She got the fussiest when it was her bedtime. She just fights sleep. It took an hour + to get her to sleep. And a random grandmother came and took her for awhile. (not uncommon - the nice man next to me had an 18 month old and held Liv a few times, and the flight attendants walked and held the other babies as well). So Liv finally fell asleep and slept 'til we landed and got off the plane. She probably would've slept longer, but I thought I should change her diaper before we got through customs which was a long line. So she woke up again and just snuggled in her carrier. We got through customs and were now in America! The rest of the way home she'd fall asleep in one place and wake up in another. I was concerned how she'd do in the carseat cause (as far as I know) she'd never been in one before. I'm assuming they don't drive much in Korea, just walk and take the subway. So she fussed getting in, but then did fine once carried her and moved her. She fell asleep on the way to Cory and Cindy's and again on the way home. We woke her up at home so she'd maybe sleep a little longer. So we gave her a bath and got her jammies on. Then we got the meltdown. I think this incredibly long day with so many new and different people just got to her. She went hysterical, just screaming. I felt so bad. We got her calmed down and back to sleep. Then she woke up hysterical 2 hours later, I had just fallen asleep or was almost asleep but now definitely awake again. So she just screamed. But the good thing in it was that she wanted to be held. I tried a bottle and that seemed to start calming her down. After that she slept for 2 - 4 hour stretches... so we did too :). She got up at 9 this morning (she's in her pack-n-play in our room). And we went to get her, and she just smiled and reached up to be picked up. Also, she shipped an overnight package which she hadn't done yet (our term for filling her pants). Then she shipped another package this morning. So things are moving well :). We had breakfast and gave her rice cereal which she ate just fine - again, not sure how she'd do in the high chair but did great. She went back to sleep at 11. So in an effort to obey the "new baby rule" to sleep when they do, we all took a 4 hour nap!

Again, I just can't believe how well she's doing. She knows both Aaron and I and will crawl to us and reaches to be held. She's a little cuddle bear and will snuggle into us. She's very observant and looks around and studies things intently. Her favorite toys so far have been paper and plastic cups - so glad I packed so many others! :). She's just a sweet baby. She smiles easily and seems to adapt pretty well. She's just awesome and so darn cute! It's been such a blessing how smooth things have been so far. Now that we're home we're going to try to lay low to help her adjust.

Thanks so much for praying for us and for your encouragement and sharing in our joy. It's been so good to have her home. It's been apparent that the Lord is helping all of us and giving us strength and connection to each other. We'll continue to keep you posted. We love you!

Leaving (again) on a jet plane...

First, a day late: HAPPY BIRTHDAY JILL!!!!
I tried to post this so you'd get it on your birthday, but couldn't get online.
And this is a Starbucks, but the insignia doesn't show up...

So sorry I didn't get to post yesterday. I tried and the internet wouldn't connect. But yesterday we went to the largest church in the world - the Youido Full Gospel Church here in Seoul. It has over 850,00 members! (and they said over 700 pastors and a few thousand elders and deacons - I guess you'd need that many!). It was amazing, such an experience. The main sanctuary held 12,000 with others nearby that telecast the service. There's 5(?) services on Wednesday, 2 on Saturday, and and 7 on Sunday (at 7, 9, 11, 1, 3, 5, and 7). And so after a service gets done you see thousands of people stream out of the sanctuary and then thousands flood in - and there really aren't any empty seats. It was awesome. We meant to go to the 9:00 service and left at 8, but we were told to get out at the wrong stop and got there at 9:30. So we waited around 'til 10:30 to go in for the next service.

We came back and ate and changed and went to a sketchy market - didn't like it very much. I had intended to go to a different one but got the name wrong. Today we left at 9 to go to the Korea National Museum (6th largest museum in the world). 1 hour and 45 minutes later, we ended up at the market that I had wanted to yesterday. Really, the subway is super easy to use, but again there were 2 words that were similar and so we went in the wrong direction for awhile and had to turn around, and by then we didn't have much to time to go to the museum.

At 3 we had an appointment to see Liv today!!! Um, she was a little more hesitant today. The foster mother had to wake her from her nap to bring her, and we tried to hold her a few times but she just started crying. So, if you could pray for us tomorrow (we leave with her at 8:30 tomorrow morning, 6:30 pm on Monday your time), and then our flight leaves 3 1/2 hours later at noon our time. I know it's going to take some time, and I'm prepared for that. But I just feel so bad for her cause it's just going to be hard. Her foster mother is just wonderful and takes such good care of her and knows her so well and shares those things with us. So if you could pray that Aaron and I will do okay with her, no lost paperwork (have to get her into the country :), safe travels, and for strength for Liv we'd appreciate it a bunch.

I'll post pictures when we get home, which we'll come into Minneapolis somewhere around 3 on Wed.

Also, a couple funny things that I at least want to post to remember from the trip:

• Cindy is the hungriest in the middle of the day. So we have first and second lunch - usually a pretty decent snack and meal for the mamma-to-be.
• $10 worth of showers - they have fitness center here called "fitna". Aaron and Cory checked it out a few days ago and went into the "spa" part of it. They thought it was a 50 cent charge. There's a few different whirlpools, a sauna, a shower, and shaving materials. So they think this is great and were living it up. They went back again this morning and found out it's actually a $5 charge. So each of them now have had $10 worth of bathing/showers.
• Cook your own Korean style - last night we went to this little restaurant that had a little grill in the middle of your table. We got beef (the menu was entirely in Korean, and we really didn't want to end up ordering squid). They also gave us large chunks of garlic, raw onion, and some lettuce leaves to put the grilled things on to eat. It was a little adventure. We got good "footage" as Aaron refers to anything he wants to videotape.

Okay, so I'm really tired (at a whopping 8:30 pm) and am going to go finish organizing and go to bed. Tomorrow will be a long, good, challenging day!

Can't wait to come home!!!

Lots of Adventures!

So I have a lot rambling around in my head and not much time, so please bear with me :). We saw Liv on Thursday and won't see her again until Monday, and then we'll fly home on Tuesday. There's 2 other couples that will be on the same flight home with us. These poor people on that flight have no idea what's coming :). So I'll start with the flight here. Having Cory and Cindy with us has added quited a bit of humor. On our first flight from Minneapolis to Chicago, Aaron, Cindy, and I were up front and Cory was way in the back. So we landed and waited for Cory who's comment was, "We're commin' in hot," referring to how low and fast we landed - which we did. So that line has come in handy a few more times.

And since Cindy is pregnant, that has also added additional "adventure" for her. So we're on the flight here, and she's needs to get up because she's under threat level orange (which the loudspeaker kept announcing over and over at the airport) which we refer to as her state of nausia. Being in a foreign country she's perpetually under threat level yellow because you just never know. But unfortunately she hit level red on the bus drive to our hotel. She had been in Mexico a week and a half prior and the bus rides made her sick there too. So (after asking her permission to share this story), here's how she recounted the story to me yesterday, "I wasn't feeling very good and thought I'd go to the front of the bus. And then, no, I'm going to throw up but what do I throw up on." And then Cory courageously gave her his sweatshirt - and so threat level red hit the hood of his blue sweatshirt. Which I had no idea she was losing lunch until after. Poor thing! I felt so bad. So while this wasn't funny, it was (and Cindy would agree). Fortunately we've had no more incidents. I was concerned the subway might do the same, but it didn't. And now we keep plastic bags in our purses.

The country, overall, is very clean. The people have been wonderfully kind and helpful. The subway is just immaculate. But I'll keep trying to stay in chronological order. So a few things about Liv that I forgot to mention last time is that she likes TV commercials, and her foster mother said she gets mad when you change the station. She sucks on her first finger, and she's an excellent climber. I think it won't be too long before she's walking cause she could stand pretty well. After we saw her on Thursday, we were invited to eat lunch with the Dr's Kim upstairs. They had a buffet line, and the food was amazing. It was really good. We met some of the other couples as well. Then we got to go see the newborn nursury. They stay there about 1 month before they go to their foster home. We went back to the hotel for a bit in the afternoon, and then went back to the agency to help take care of the newborns for a little while. That was awesome. First they came out with an 8 month old boy, and the nurse there just handed him, crying, to Cory with a bottle. The baby hadn't been there very long, and poor little guy, you could just tell he was tired and sad. So after awhile he fell asleep on Cory, but then he'd wake up and look at Cory and start crying again (I think because he's reminded that who in the world is this guy and this isn't someone I know). So finally he fell into a good sleep and slept on Cory's chest for awhile. Then they brought Cindy a few different babies, and she'd feed and hold one baby. Then they'd bring her another. For Aaron and I, we just had one baby the whole time. I had this little guy who couldn't have weighed more than 7 pounds. He was so precious and very active! So I had him for about 2 hours. There was one room with about 25-30 newborns. They were so precious. Some crying, some sleeping, some awake. You just wanted to take them all. After that we tried to stay awake long enough to eat at TGI Friday's. Then we came back to the hotel and went to bed.

At about early afternoon everyday I'm ready for a nap, and by 6pm I'm ready for bed. So we've been going to bed at 9 or so, but last night I was just wiped and managed to stay awake until 8, and then went to bed at 8. I'm still waking up in the middle of the night (somewhere between 2:30 and 4) and am awake for an hour before I fall back asleep. This time change just messes you up!

So I'll stop here for now. Yesterday we saw a palace and today we're going to a market. So I'll post on that later. Glad you like the pictures of Liv! We just think she's awesome!

Meeting the Baby!

So I kindof posted these pictures backwards. This first picture was towards the end of our appointment and the bottom one was closer to the beginning...

We were meeting Liv during her nap time, and so she got progressively sleepier. She was asleep in the foster mother's arms by the time we were done. Here's Liv with her foster mother.
She was pretty willing to crawl up and be held. She crawled into my lap a few times. It was so sweet :).
Moving baby = blurry picture.

Hanging out with Aaron for a minute (she was pretty active).
She liked the tissue paper we had put in the foster mother's gift. The woman on the right was our case worker and interpreter.
Her foster mother puts oil on her cause she has sensitive dry skin. Liv had gotten into the oil a bit which is why her hair looks greasy :).

Crawling around.

So there's some pictures from this morning! We hope you like them! Cindy took more on her camera which I haven't seen yet.

First Meeting

Wow. It's been a full day, and it's only 2pm! We got to sleep around 9:30 last night. We woke up at 3:30, and I was able to doze a while. Then I woke up at 5:30 and couldn't go back to sleep; so we got up at 6. As excited as I've been all week, I was surprisingly calm this morning. After a little breakfast at Dunkin' Donuts we headed over to the agency to meet Liv! We got there at 9:45 and received Liv's passport and immigration documents as well as a little instruction on what to do. Then at 10 we joined 2 other couples to meet Dr. Kim Sr. who is the founder of the Eastern (the agency/orphanage) and is also 93 and still working. He was a neat Christian man to meet. Eastern is much larger than I knew - they have many different facilities that meet a variety of social service needs. He speaks Korean, Japanese, and Chinese fluently and apologized for his English. I thought he did just fine,and for goodness sake - you can speak 3 other languages besides! We then met the other Dr. Kim who is the president of Eastern. She was a very kind woman who gave us some of the history of Korea as well as Eastern. Then at 11 we got to meet Liv!

I had been calm all morning, but right before we walked into to see the baby I just lost it and needed a minute to regain my composure. I didn't want to scare this little one! One thing that I'd been praying in the months leading up to this was that somehow the Lord would make us familiar to Liv, that we wouldn't seem like random strangers to her. And so we went into this little room and there she was! We took off our shoes and sat on the floor with her, and I had sat down for just a second and she crawled right over to me up into my lap! It was amazing. And she looked at me for a couple seconds and I looked back at her. Then she crawled off and moved toward Aaron. The Lord really had answered that prayer. She was definitely anchored to her foster mother but was not at all scared of Aaron or I and crawled between the 3 of us.

It was just amazing to finally meet her and touch her. She's a little peanut, not very big. She crawls really well and pulls herself up. Her foster mother was wonderful. You could tell that she loves Liv and takes really good care of her. She was very encouraging of Liv to move her toward us and volunteered so much information and was very willing to answer questions. She said that Liv is smart and curious and active. She doesn't like to be covered up when she sleeps, and she moves around a lot when she sleeps. The foster mother has nicknamed her Princess - appropriate :). It just seems like she's doing really well!

So I'm going to post this and then put up some pictures. I don't want to lose all I've written. We'll continue to keep you updated. With much love, the Joneses :)

We're Here!

We landed in Seoul at 2:30am US time - about 4:30pm here. It's now 6:15am home time, and we are ready for bed! We're just exhausted. We just ate at Outback for supper because we're too tired to be adventurous and try Korean food. Overall, the flight went well. We flew up north from Chicago into Wisconsin and Canada and then over Northern Alaska into Russia and down to Korea. Our flight had little monitors on the seat back in front of you, and we could watch a number of different movies or listen to music or play Tetris or a few other games! It was great. I think Aaron was the only one that slept a little on the flight. The rest of us tried. There were definitely moments of humor and a little adventure but overall no trouble on the travel aspect.

So now we're at the hotel and will be heading to bed! I don't know what time our appointment is at the agency tomorrow to meet Olivia, but I'll call in the morning to find out. I'll post again as soon as I can!