Emma's first time in Tallahassee

We traveled to Tallahassee and were able to attend the TFWAC (Tallahassee Families With Asian Children) event at Tall Timbers. Kevin Robertson hosted and was his usual incredible self. He organized games, bonfire, hay ride and beautiful weather... the guy is perfect and it is always wonderful to see them. Quick story about this guy Kevin, the night we were moving 2 years ago from Tallahassee to Texas I had put the moving truck up against the front door of our house. We filled the truck and then I pulled it out onto the street so we could put the van on the car carrier, click here to relive with us.

Okay back to the story, so as I drive the fully loaded very very heavy truck off the front lawn I run over the water meter connection to the house and bust the pipe. After a full day of packing and schedule to leave first thing in the morning you can imagine how inconvenient this little setback was. It is a bit of a blur now but all I can remember is Kevin Robertson coming to our house very very early in the morning and repairing the water pipe somehow so it was all repaired and we could take showers before driving to TX. Yeah, he is my hero but wait there is more. He learned Chinese so that he is really pretty fluent, I mean he certainly does not know every word but he can definitely hang with someone who only speaks Chinese and keep up the conversation really well. The thing that makes that so cool is when they adopted their third child from China she was actually a teenager and did not know much english, so he has always been able to speak to her in Chinese and if he is not your hero yet, hold on. One night we went over for a visit and he and his teenage daughter are sitting on the couch. He is reading a childrens book in chinese and she corrects him on anything he gets wrong... then she reads an childrens book in english and he helps her with words she needs help with. Oh man, that was so cool to see and we definitely need to get a statue made of this guy in town.

Right then, back to Tall Timbers... so Emma got to meet a bunch of people that have been waiting to meet her for three years and she had a blast. Here are some pictures of right before we left Texas and then some of the night and a visit to Church today at the Tallahassee Chinese Church.



She loved playing with the kids and really just enjoys everything we are doing. Some things Emma still does not like in order of how much disdain she has for it: going to bed, sitting in car seat on long trips. Yup, that is about it, everything else she just seems to enjoy and does not fuss about and cries pretty rarely. She mainly cries sympathy cry's whenever her big sister starts crying. She has been pretty happy... she sang all the way to church and plays with everyone that will pay attention to her. She ran around with the girls at Tall Timbers and had a great time. They had watermelon so that was a hit, she enjoyed the hay ride and most of all like playing ring around the rosy with the girls. Her mouth still seems to be healing well and we are being very careful about what she eats. We met a little boy at Tall Timbers who recently came home and will be getting the palate surgery soon, it was nice to be able to tell them about our experience and hopefully help them be more prepared then we were.

This week I have to work pretty hard all day everyday but if I don't get anything posted we will catch up at the end of the week. Melissa is great about taking pictures and will tell me stuff to post.