Presenting: Kim Mee Zimmer

Today, Wednesday September 19th, 2007 -- we received a much awaited call from our adoption agency: they made a match!

At 4pm today, they sent over her information and pictures and it was love at first sight. There she was: Kim Zimmer, waiting to be adopted by her American parents!

We are so excited. I know that this home addition commanded most of our time this summer, but the real reason we needed the space was for the additional child we wanted to add to our family. Now with the addition nearly complete, we can turn our full attention to bringing our little girl home.

So Mee Bae was born April 7th, 2007 to an unwed mother and father (21 yrs old). Knowing that they could not raise this child, they gave her up for adoption. She has been living with a foster family since her birth and is very, very attached to her foster mom (sigh).

She is a healthy and alert 5 month old, and as soon as we sign the paper work and send in our check, the legal red tape will begin being cut and we will become her foster parents with finalization following about 6 months later. Thus, sometime shortly into the new year we will be making a trip to Korea to bring back our daughter!

The kids are already in love with her and are very, very happy to add her to our family unit.

Her name is "So" = "bright" and "Mee" = "beautiful" and "Bae" = her family name.

We have always referred to our unknown daughter as Kim, or "Kimmi", knowing that we would change her name to this once we adopted her. Kathy calls our kids "miss beautiful" and "mr. handsome", so it's befitting that So Mee means "bright and beautiful". Note that by incorporating her Korean name "Mee" (beautiful), it yields: Kim Mee Zimmer, or Kimmi Zimmer! Pretty cool!!

We are very excited to bring her home and appreciate all of your thoughts, prayers, and encouragement as we snowball through the next four months. It takes a village to raise a child!

Can't wait for each and everyone of you to meet our new daughter! Please, please post a message for us here, all of us will be checking this posting and sharing it with others. If you just leave a message as "anonymous" you don't need to create an account, and we'd love to see your responses!

Your friends, the Zimmers: party of five!

UPDATE: Kim (So Mee) was born in Seosan City, South Korea (pop. 150,000). Here is link to her hometown: http://eng.seosantour.net/default.asp?go=40

Seosan City (or Sosan) is located about 60 miles to the south and west of Seoul, South Korea. And about 6,230 miles from her soon-to-be home in Aurora, CO. (thx Google Earth!)