Tour of Seoul

On Friday we took a tour of Seoul.  Max did really well in the carrier with Daddy.  He even took a little nap.  He loved to be on the bus and to be outside.  Here are are few pictures of our day.

On the bus: 

At the Palace:

 North Seoul Tower: We added a lock to the fence for Max with his name and family day. 

 Lunch with our beautiful tour guide, she was very nice and so sweet and complimentary to Max.

Max is doing Well

Its about 6 am in Korea on Friday Apr. 8th.   Max took his first bottle at about 10 pm last night.  He slept until about 3 am and took another one then.  Went back to sleep and is still sleeping.  Foster Mom said he usually sleeps till about 7am.  He was finally in a playful mood after he took his first bottle from us last night.  Here is a picture and another video.  He likes to bang on things.

Today we are taking a guided city tour with him at 9:30.  We did get him outside yesterday for a short walk to some bad Burger King food for dinner.  He seemed to be very content while outside in the carrier.  We were told he likes being outside.  He did a lot of waving at people.

We have Max

We met Max for the first time a few hours ago.  We are back at our hotel and he is sleeping.  Here are a few pictures of our first meeting and him sleeping on Kristin's shoulder.

We also have a video of Max wondering through the Holt office just before his final medical check.  The lady in the black and white blouse is his foster Mommy.

Love Mark & Kristin

We Made it!

We made it to Seoul, South Korea in the early morning of April 6th.  The flight was fine, no issues.  Just really long. 

We wandered around most of the day since we could not check in to our hotel until the mid afternoon.  We did some shopping and walked a lot. 

Here are a few of our stops along the way.

Our plane once we landed

Airport Terminal

Who knew a glutinous rice donut would be so good! Also banana and some square thing...

 The mix of old and new in this city is amazing. This is the Buddhist Museum near our hotel

 Stopped for some Mandu...very yummy.

 Namdaemun Market...we only went through part of it, it's huge.

 We knew we walked really far when we realized we we coming up on North Seoul Tower...which is on the other side of town from where we are staying...We will certainly go back with Max and his lock...more to come on that.

Next post will involve some cuteness I am sure.  Prayers are welcome!

Travel call!

On Friday April 1st we finally got our Travel Call.  The time since then has flown by.  We have already left and are in Korea already! More to come!

All we need is Max to make the nursery complete

We have finished the nursery a few weeks ago.  I am pretty happy with how it turned out.  We just need to install the new light fixture and I may hang the comforter on the wall, just not sure how to go about it.

On the changing table I put the wall decals that I bought, they were meant for the wall...but they didn't stick, so I put them on the changing table, they were too cute not to use.

Some of my favorite things in the room....

I know there is carpet in the room...but the rug was too cute to pass up, and it makes a little reading area in front of the bookcase.

This does not go with the theme...but I found this cute Pororo table at H-Mart when I went to Atlanta in January... we made it fit in my suitcase so I could bring it home.  For those who don't know, Pororo is a really popular cartoon in Korea,  Maybe like D*ra is here...I had to get this in particular, since Mark is such an ice fisherman.  I hope it helps to make Max more comfortable in our home.  I can just picture my little guy having a snack with his buddy Pororo...soon, very soon.

Visa Physical Scheduled

Max will have his Visa Physical on March 23rd.  Next week Wednesday!  We could get our travel call anytime after that day!

We know for sure we won't get the call until he has  this appointment.  We can relax and take a break for a few days.  The previous batch of physicals were on March 3rd, many of those families got their travel calls yesterday.  So if you apply the same timeline...we would get our travel call on April 4th!

I feel like I did a few weeks before our wedding...you know the time when you just want to run away to Vegas and just get married already...Only this time I want to run to Korea and get Max already!

Hang on Max...we will be there soon!