Korea Court Trip - Day 4

Today was our second meeting with our Lyla Grace and we were so excited to show her our love and encourage her that she is safe with us. We woke up around 6am and got ready before heading down to the coffee shop in our hotel for some breakfast. (Let it be known that today, Todd Smith ordered a coffee of his very own!)
After we ate, we headed to Holt. We have gotten pretty confident on the metro system so it was nice to feel like we knew where we were going. But it seems we are a little too good at it because we ended up getting to Holt an hour and a half early! Haha. So we walked around the nearby mall to kill some time before going back to holt about 40 minutes before our scheduled meeting time. We waited in the office for about 20 minutes and then they took us up to the 6th floor. We sat in the large conference room waiting on Lyla and when they walked in we were so happy to see that her Foster Dad came along as well!
Omma handed Lyla to her Appa and he was the sweetest! Lyla loves her Appa so very much and she would cry everytime we would try to interact with her. We prepared to continue to pursue her from a safe distance and tried our best to show her our love. About 15 minutes into our meeting, a switch flipped and our prayers were answered! I was speaking with Omma and when I looked over at Todd, he was holding a smiling, laughing Lyla. We looked at each other with big smiles knowing that our hearts were about burst.
Todd bounced and spun Lyla around while she laughed the most precious laugh. He kissed her and told her he loved her and I melted. After holding her for quite a while, he handed Lyla to me and she wasn't quite having it. I tried bouncing but I obviously didn't have the "Daddy touch." So i let her down and she started to walk over to the stage area of the room. I grabbed her hand as she started to climb the stairs and she held it as she walked up the stairs and then down the ramp and then up the ramp and then down the stairs. Everytime she felt uneasy, she reached for my hand. And everytime, my heart melted all over again.
Her Omma and Appa came over and spoke with us and showed us videos on her phone and told us random facts she thought we should know and told us that they are so very happy that Lyla will be joining our family. This meeting was so much of God's goodness rolled into an hour and a half.

When it was almost time to leave, and Omma gave us bags of gifts. She gave us the most wonderful album of pictures from Lyla's life with them, as well as 2 professional photo books. And then we found 3 flash drives full of thousands, yes I said thousands, of pictures and videos. I was in tears while looking through these priceless gifts, as I thought about how most adopted children will never know about the early days of their lives, but Lyla's days will forever be documented and she will have answers to so many questions!
Lyla left our meeting in her Appa's arms and waved the cutest wave to us as they walked out. Cue the heart melting again!

After our meeting, we have a debriefing for court the next day and then went out to lunch with another couple in our group. This couple was such an encouragement to us in our week in Seoul and God planned journey to our sweet girl! I love how God places His children in each other's lives in order to push each other onwards. What a big, amazing God we serve!!

After lunch, we went to Starbucks and looked over the pictures Omma gave us. We were on cloud 9 as we saw so many days of Lyla's first 2 years. Then we went back to the mall nearby. We went to Home Plus (which is like Korea's Target) and bought some Pororo toys for Lyla's custody trip. And headed back to our hotel. We laid low and ate dinner at our hotel. Then headed to bed at a decent time to prepare for our big court date the next day!