School "Meet & Greet"

Ryan & his new teacher Mrs. Carpenter

Ryan & I attended the school "meet & greet" last night where we toured a few of the classes, met his new teacher and dropped off his supplies. I've made mention of this before, but we're so happy to live in an area where we know so many of the people in the community and in an area where everyone is so confounded friendly and genuinely nice. As we walked the halls last night we ran into friends from church and it hit me how different we feel like it is here vs how it would have been had we stayed in Dallas. And maybe Dallas would have been different after Ryan had started school. Regardless, it was fun seeing everyone, getting to visit with people and Ryan so enjoyed hearing time and time again how much he had grown over the summer, how tall he is getting, etc. Many of the kids in his grade are ones that they have all been together since their preschool days and it's so cute to see how much they have grown up.

On another blessing note, the community is also fairly diverse. Off the top of my head, I know of four other families that have adopted children from China and at least one of the little girls will be starting school the same year that Emma does. Even our principal has two daughters from China.

In respect to the little ones ... life is good right now.