We made it home!

The one word I would use to describe our trip home was: grueling.  Jin Ah did surprisingly well on the long flight home from Seoul to Detroit.  She and Christian both slept most of the time and she did relatively little crying.  Once we reached Detroit and made it through all of the security, etc., we found out that our flight was delayed due to the flight crew being late.   Not too bad, but when it came time to board, an announcement came that that bathroom on the plane was out of order, so everyone needed to use the bathroom by the gate.  Once on the plane, we were told that due to bad weather (it was storming out) that we would be delayed at takeoff for half an hour, and then the flight would take longer than usual due to the storms.  One passenger got up and asked to use the bathroom and the flight attendant refused!  Poor guy.  When we finally arrived in Columbus, we also had to wait on the plane becauase the flight crew couldn't be outside in the lightning.  At this point we were just so ready to go home.  Still, both Mari and Christian did their best and we all survived.  Thank you everyone for all of your prayers - they worked!

So, now we're home and adjusting to our new life.  75% of our family is happy to be here, and 25% is not happy at all :-) Poor Mari is grieving, and it's hard to see her so frightened and confused.  My heart goes out to her and the foster family.  Last night, she had her first meltdown at bedtime.  I know that she was looking for her Omma and it was so sad to see her crawling to the door, crying for her Omma.  Today was a pretty rough day for her, but we hope that each day it gets a little better.  She actually let Jeff hold her on the plane (I am guessing that her 'good' behavior was due to just being in shock), but now that we're home she's back to not liking him and getting an upset look on her face when she sees him.  Jeff has learned that she will let him hold her outside, probably because of all of the distractions. We also think she's teething - she's running a temperature and keeps on sticking her fingers in her mouth.  She and I had a couple of small yet good interactions with eye contact while feeding her bottles.  She seems fascinated with both my hair and my glasses and always wants to grab them.  She also likes to put her fingers in my mouth.   So, we'll see.  I do hope that she can be a happy girl soon, but we're prepared to help her for as long as it takes and completely understand why she's so unhappy.  Christian is trying very hard to be a good big brother for her.  Last night, Jeff told me that he asked to pray for Mari because she was crying so hard.  And he also said she may like his 'music' (CD player) and let her have that too.  We are very proud of how well he is doing so far.
Some not crying pictures.  There aren't many :-)