Reunion - Day 2

After a fun first day of getting to know each other, pizza, and a little fishing, we spent day 2 at a local Children's Museum.  The kids and adults had a blast.  Despite it being a small museum, it was one of the best we have been to in the country.  Lots of free play areas and an amazing above ground tunnel with slides made out of clear packaging tape.  Another Korean adoptive family joined us for this fun day.  It was great to get to know them in person.  What an amazing first visit this has been so far.

The boys - becoming buddies 

Looks scary to mommy 

View from Above 

Ball Machine fun for the Little Girls 

Lauren LOVED the tunnel and slide 

 Hours of fun with boxes

The Gang 

Arts and Crafts Time 

Cameron, laying on a bed of nails 

Discussing how to make their wind chime 

Hard Workers 

Kyle and his wind chime 

  Learning about electrical circuits

Reunion - Day 1

Back in 2009, two little girls were placed in a loving foster home in South Korea.  Their names were MeeHyeon and NaYeon.  They were just a few months apart in age.  They grew up side by side for 13 months.  They played together, slept next to each other, stole each other bottles and toys, got into mischief together, laughed and learned together, and loved each other.  This all came to an end in July 2010, when MeeHyeon was adopted by us and became our daughter, Lauren, and had to leave everything behind her in South Korea.  We knew that Lauren had a foster sister but that is all we knew.  We had no pictures of this other little girl and no information.  At the same time we were bringing Lauren home, NaYeon was being matched with a wonderful family in Kansas.  She would join her new family about a year after Lauren and became known as Avah.  Through the wonders of Facebook our two families were able to find each other a little over a year ago.  Both families were in shock and overjoyed.  It was like we had another piece of the puzzle.  We emailed the girls' foster mother and sent us some photos of the girls together.  Oh my they are cute.  Both families talked about reuniting the girls one day and we were finally able to make that happened this July...three years after they had last seen each other in Korea.  And what a wonderful reunion it was.  The girls bonded immediately and seemed to pick right back up where they left off.  It was beautiful to witness.  And now we have the added bonus of new family.  Both of our families have two older children which is a blessing.  We can't wait to see you all again soon.

MeeHyeon and NaYeon in South Korea 

Avah and Lauren in Oklahoma

Bonding over Books

Counting their pennies 

Lauren checking out Avah's pictures from their foster mother.

She loved analyzing each one. 

Cooking in the Kitchen 

Snack Time

 

Lauren caught her first fish with help from Avah's mommy 

Avah, Blowing Bubbles 

The amazing older siblings - Kaden 10, Cameron 9, Kyle 6, and Kacie 9 

Kacie teaching Kyle how to fish

 Pure Love

 

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