Visiting with Friends!

I cannot believe it has almost been two years since Emma has been home. This April 5th we will celebrate her Gotcha Day for the second year! So when our friends we met while in China called to say they would be passing Atlanta on their drive home to FL, we invited them to stop and visit. Dan and Kristen adopted Kylie, who was in Emma's orphanage. It was so special to see them again. There's an unmistakable bond you create when adopting together. We got to see Kylie placed in their arms for the first time and vice versa. When they walked in our house, it was as if we had just seen them in China. The biggest difference was, our girls were no longer 8 month old infants. Kylie and Emma played with Shelby while we got caught up on the events of the last two years with our girls. There is a photo in Emma's scrapbook of Emma propped up beside Kylie while in Lianjiang. To see the two of them now, thriving, growing, babbling (Kylie talked much more than Emma.) and playing together was wonderful. Just by chance, we also met a couple from Atlanta while in China, Lee and Tracy Cullom. So I called them to see if we could meet for dinner. It was a reunion of 3 of the 6 girls at dinner that night. Mary Claire, Kylie and Emma were together again for the first time since leaving China. I loved it. Although the visit ended the next morning over breakfast at Atlanta Bread Co, it was great to spend some time with Dan, Kristen and Kylie. Hopefully it will not take us 2 more years to see them again.