Are You Going To Tell Her She's Adopted?

I get that question a lot.    And usually the next question after I answer "yes" is when are you going to tell her she's adopted?




I mean, she looks like me and my family.  So I really don't have to tell her at all.  Right?  WRONG!  We are open and honest people and never planned to try and pass her off as our biological child.  We are proud that she is our daughter.  We are proud that her birth parents trusted us enough to let us raise their child at a time in their lives when they couldn't give her the live they thought she deserved.

Well, folks, I have an answer to that second question now too.  I told Cambria that she is adopted yesterday, May 18th.  She babbled in response!  And pulled my hair- her favorite thing to do!  She will be 8 months old this week on the 23rd, so of course she didn't understand what I was saying.  I told her she's adopted again today, too.  I shed a few tears.  Not because she is adopted and not my biological child.  But I shed a few tears at the memory of her birth parents packing her up in her carseat at the hospital and handing her to Dave and me and the 4 of us crying in the hospital room.  It was such a moving experience.


These pictures were taken on Mother's Day this year, 2013, my first Mother's Day with a little daughter in the picture and my family complete!

So anyways, May 18, 2013 will be another memorable day along our adoption journey.