Noah started his second school year today.  He is officially a Newporter (his school has two pre-school classes Big Bend 3/4 and Newport 4/5).  He is already talking about how next year he’ll be in kindergarten.  Slow down big guy–mama doesn’t need you to grow up too fast.

He has been so excited to start back to school and he was excited to see all of his friends and to get to go to his classroom.  It was so awesome to see how much all the kids had changed and grown over the summer–I don’t think there were any “real” tears when moms and dads left this morning.  I am also happy to report that Noah is no longer the only brown kid in his class.  He is so excited to have another kid in class who looks like him along with the two other kids who are also adopted internationally.  There are also two other brown kids in the Big Bend class.  It’s nice to see the increased diversity.

He was ready to show off his completed summer book.  And play.  I know that this year will be a great year.  There are some challenges ahead.  One of the kids in his class–that he really likes to play with poses some difficulty for us–no need to go into details–but I am working with Noah to play gentle and quiet inside and that he is his own boy and can play with who he’d like to play with.  Noah’s a bit of a follower in some ways and I am encouraging him to think for himself.  We’ll see how it goes.

Sharing summer books.