Life and Times of the Arkansas Stucky Seven

Thursday, October 15, 2009

A Final, Pre-flight Check-up for Our Baby Girl!





OK, we get the hint! You only care enough to respond if there are pictures of Emma Hope!!! So, here you go!! Isn't she just the cutest?! She was sound asleep in her foster mother's arms when we all arrived for her Dr. appt. today. So her f.m. sweetly transferred Emma Hope into my arms and she stayed asleep. It was too short but a precious time! Then the nurse began by taking her temp. and she was just fine but bugged by the thing in her ear! Like, leave me alone, I'm trying to sleep!! Then we walked into Dr. Park's office and he just manuvered her around with no regard for the fact that she had been sound alseep, and she pretty much just went with it! We were standing there amazed at how she just rolled with whatever needed to happen right when she should have been sleeping!
Anyway, she had a very brief exam and everything checks out fine! She is fine to get on a plane and travel 21 hours! Yippee!! It was hard to say good-bye again until tomorrow but that is just how it works, so you do it.
The rest of the afternoon and evening we spent with one of our tour guides from yesterday, our new friend, Ju-eun Lee! She is just precious and helpful and offered to show us more sights and help us do some final shopping. She let us know her friend is an exchange student at the Univ. of Arkansas (Go Razorbacks!) this year and she plans to visit her in January! So we might get to host her in our home next!
We have had another long, long fantastic day! As we sat at a yummy Korean BBQ restaurant for dinner, Ju-eun struck up a conversation with the older ladies at the table next to us and answered their questions about us. (One of those weird moments when people are talking about you and you are sitting right there!!) Then the ladies proceed to order us bottles of Pepsi and take our check!! They wanted to treat us for dinner b/c they are pleased with how we are caring for one of Korea's children and wanting to give her a loving family!! Amazing! Such a blessing and another timely provision from the Lord! (Brad had just been figuring that we were running low on funds...fine, but we'd have to be even more careful tomorrow!) So we were blown away by their generosity to perfect strangers and foreigners at that! We got to practice our Kam-sa-ham-ni-da (thank you!) a lot tonight!!
So this is it! Our last sleep before returning to parenting a toddler! Formula and diapers here we come again! But oh, she is worth it! When she looks at me my heart just melts! Enjoy the pics!

ps... Dad and Mom, sorry for the disconnect with the international phone call. Not for sure what went wrong. All is great here. Hope all will be well there. We love you and will see you on Saturday.

3 comments:

  1. Let's just pack up the community group and join you over there for a few weeks. It looks amazing, and Emma...words can't describe how precious she is.

    Thanks for the great updates and letting us live through your experiences.

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  2. Hi from the Morrisons through Maggie's e-mail.
    We had thought our favorite picture was Brad holding Emma Hope (which one would that be??) but now it is the "tongue-sticky-out" picture on the exam table. She looks like such a precious little doll, and you guys look like you are holding up very well! We will be praying for an uneventful, restful, non-jet-lagged trip home. We shall be seeing you soon!!!!!!!
    Love, the Morrison crew

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  3. Great pictures every day! I got to spend a few minutes on Tuesday with your middle kids (missed Alyssa). They are such a joy! I so enjoy sitting and talking with them. They are precious - I just love them! You are so blessed. Thanks again for opening your family and sharing this journey. We will be praying for you all on the long trip home.

    Love you!
    Sally & Boys

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