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21 lbs.! That puts him only 2 lbs. lighter than Sophia.

And the prize for guessing Liam’s weight is:

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We’ve met a lot of people in the last couple of days. On Friday, we got to see Liam again. We got to spend another hour with him and his foster family and we have another video of him.

Later that day, we met with some of our old Korean teachers and had a good time catching up at dinner. Being college students, they took us down through the bar hopping district for dessert afterward.

Saturday, we met with Sophia’s foster parents again for a snack a the restaurant downstairs and then went shopping in the stream district for a hanbok for Sophia. Kathleen wanted to go soak her feet in the stream but I had to remind her not to go into the stream because it is so polluted that it will dissolve your feet. Skepticism was expressed.

Today on Sunday, we’ve started winding down and getting ready to go home. We caught up with our teacher, Soo Hyun again, and she helped us find another hanbok for Liam and we had dinner at a great Japanese restaurant.

Now we’re working on getting all the stuff we brought packed back into our luggage.

Tomorrow, the long flight back home. See you in America!

It looks like I set the wrong permissions on Liam’s video. I’ve fixed the permissions and you should be able to see it below now:

Yesterday, Kathleen and I got to meet Sophia’s foster family, Mrs. Lee and Mr. Choi. We had a wonderful time catching up in spite of the language barrier. They took us to one of their big shopping centers to buy gifts for Sophia. We founds lots of dolls for Sophia but no dolls that looked like a little Korean girl. They bought Sophia many Korean books, stickers, and magnetic Korean characters (which Mommy and Daddy will probably use as well).

After our morning meeting with Sophia’s foster parents, we met the Drs. Kim who run the adoption agency. They gave us a short history of modern Korea and updated us about all the work their agency was doing. Afterwards, we had lunch with some of the other families who are adopting children and had a good time finding out who they were adoptiong, where they were from, and what they did.

Later they took us back to their home and they shared a snack with us. We looked a pictures of Sophia and told them about how Sophia had grown as much as our poor Korean allowed. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get this video of Sophia up in time for them to see it:

Afterward, we headed to dinner at a very nice hotel and what a dinner it was! There were at least 8 courses and each one of them was delicious. We of course took pictures and I joked to Kathleen that Peter will have probably figured out how to cook each of the courses by the time we get back.

Tomorrow, we see Liam again and meet one of our old Korean teachers.

Here’s some more pictures of Sophia at Father’s Day and hanging out with Grandma and Poppop that I found while I was uploading Liam’s photos.

We got to meet Liam the first time today and he is totally adorable! He wasn’t too sure about us at first and didn’t want anyone else to hold him other than his foster family. But Kathleen sang to him and I took him down to see the fish which he thought was hilarious. Unfortunately, we didn’t have that much time with him today but I think he took to us pretty well. We’ll be spending more time with him and his family on Friday so you’ll get more pictures and video then.

Tomorrow we’re meeting Sophia’s foster family. It will be good to catch them up on how well Sophia is doing.

Afterward, we headed out to have some lunch. Indian food, cream soda latte, and sesame ice cream were on the menu.