She's here!

 [Part 3 of a series on the experience we had as foster parents.]

6 May 1997

Kyung-Yeon is here! She is cute as a button, if you're into buttons. So far she seems cheerful, flexible, inquisitive, and outgoing. Min-Ok (our first Korean foster child) used to walk around our house picking things up to look at them; Kyung-Yeon does the same. 

We drove out to Sharon's house in Snohomish to pick her up. We pulled into the driveway just as they did. The interpreter didn't arrive for an hour after that, but we all got along fine without her. Kyung-Yeon understands some English, which is going to help a great deal. 

She is indeed turning blue, although it just looks like she is cold around the edges, the tip of her nose, the line of her lips, the ends of her fingers. She is a stocky-built child, just shorter than Amanda, but probably weighs 10 pounds more. 

She is fearful of the heart surgery - who wouldn't be? - but not resistant. 

Nicole and Amanda are playing with her - playdough, Legos, dolls, swinging. Amanda seems to be more attached to her than Nicole. Both girls admit that their fears are completely gone.