Life and Times of the Arkansas Stucky Seven

Monday, October 12, 2009

You're Gonna LOVE Her!!!






Our first time of meeting Emma Hope was AMAZING!!! Could not have gone any better! Emma Hope was sooooooo sweet and calm and interactive!! So incredible how the Lord has provided for her needs up to now in such a way that she is confident that she is loved and cared for immensely! That is how she comes across...She is so happy and her foster mom says she is happy and content most all the time! We learned today that she has had two different foster families that have completely loved on her! We have the most precious gifts from both families! Photo albums filled with incredible pictures through her last eight months! Since we had been given only the info. about her first foster family, the gifts we brought for the family weren't quite all appropriate. So we have some shopping to do before we meet again! A little awkward!
So here's the play by play:
We get to the Holt offices and they show us to a nice cozy room where we will visit. We had arrived early ( shocking!) so we had to wait a little while. But in the meantime we saw her pass by in the hallway a few times and we just wanted to go grab her! We thought the Korean social worker would come in first and kind of let us know how it would go (we later learned she was rushed to the hospital with an appendicitis! Please pray for her) but all of a sudden here comes Emma Hope in the outfit we sent her carried by her sweet sweet foster mom. Wow! All of a suddden there she was! In the flesh! As we look back now, it seems strange that neither of us cried b/c we both thought we would! I think we just were so happy and relieved and also conscious of being sensitive to her foster mom. Behind them came a different social worker named DJ or TJ or sometthing that sounds like that! She was a great interpreter and answered a ton of our questions. It turns out this foster mom is new to fostering with Holt. Emma Hope was her first baby to care for and the experience has gone so well that she will definitely care for more babies waiting for their forever families. This family has two young daughters that seem from the pictures to have really doted on Emma Hope! I think we know two other daughters that will take over where these girls left off!!! And two sons!!
Anyway, for an hour we played with the books we brought, she knawed on a biter biscuit we gave her, she played with my necklace, she laid her head on Brad's shoulder, and she really connected with our eyes! Please pray the great groundwork that was laid today will carry over to Friday when she is ours forever! We were also invited to go to her final dr. appt on Thursday at 10am! We will be there!
So enjoy the pictures! We are going to go enjoy a celebration dinner, either Korean BBQ or Japanese tepanyaki/sushi (for Brad) ! Oh, a last amazing discovery...her foster mom told us that she seems to favor using her left hand! This is really sweet since both Brad and I are left-handed but none of our biological kids are! So I guess we had to adopt to get a lefty!!! So fun!

4 comments:

  1. Yeah GOD!!! She is so adorable and looks just so right in your arms - finally! Love the smiles on your faces - imagine it is hard to stop smiling at this point! So happy for such a blessing! We love you all!

    Sue (and all the sleeping Thielmans & Stuckys)

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  2. OH MY GOODNESS!!!! We'll do the crying...tears of absolute joy!!! How great is our God!!!!!

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  3. She is absolutely adorable!!! So special to see her in your arms. GOD IS GOOD!

    Brad, I trust you're giving Lynda a chance to hold her. The pics look like its mostly you. I know how you are with your girls!!!

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  4. She is sooo precious, all of us are just sitting here oohing and ahhing over her! I AM JEALOUS!!!
    I cant wait till you get home so "I" can hold her!

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