EVERETT, Wash. - At a home in rural Snohomish County, 9-year-old Kenlove and 6-year-old Juvens are getting a crash course in American culture: videogames, digital cameras -- so many ways and miles apart from the place they left behind.
"They live and die like we can't even imagine here in the best of times," said Sena Seth.
As the newly expanded family waited to board their flight home from the Port-au-Prince airport, the ground began to shake.
"It knocked us to the ground. Some women in front of us fell on top of us," said Seth. "People just started running in all different directions."
As most people ran toward the exit, the Seths headed toward the tarmac.
"My husband was like, we're getting next to that plane... we're getting next to that plane," said Sena Seth.
Pilots inspected the runway and within an hour of the devastating quake, they got clearance to take off.
It was the last flight out.
"Though a language barrier divides them, everyone at home seems to be adjusting pretty well. I can't comprehend that we got out," said Seth. "I can't even imagine what it would be like if we were still there, it's too scary to think about it."
Though they have three children of their own, Sena Seth and her husband decided to adopt Kenlove and Juvens from an orphanage in Haiti.
What so many Haitians lost this week, little Kenlove and Juvens found what in Haitian Creole they call "lakay" -- a home.
