Emma has been home one year and one month and everything is great. She is a happy girl! The first two pictures are first day of school pictures from this year and last year. They were taken in the same place and I was amazed at how much she had grown. Since the last post Emma has finished her first year of school at the Montessori and started her second year of school at the same place with the same teachers.
This summer Emma's swimming ability took off. She had two swim lessons and just fell in love with swimming. From the beginning of our family vacation to Hawaii in mid July until school started this week Emma was in the water ever chance she had. Second to swimming would be dancing/gymnastics - so we are trying classes in both this fall.
Our first Special Day (adoption day) was extra special because we were on vacation and Emma's cousins helped celebrate. We had Vietnamese food and a cake with a few presents and kept the whole celebration low key.
Emma has lost 4 teeth this year. The first one kind of scared her, but then she got the hang of it and now she is ready to lose them all. Doesn't really buy into the tooth fairy story, but hey, if someone wants to put money under her pillow she is not complaining. Money in Emma's hands equals a trip to the dollar store. I've opened a bank account for her and a few dollars have gone into the bank, but why would you give a stranger your dollar when you could go buy gum at the dollar store?
Life is good!!
