American Adoptions -- America's Adoption Agency
 Hi there! We just want to thank you for taking the time to review our profile. We are a trans-racial family of 4 that has already been blessed through adoption twice previously. Our girls are very excited about becoming big sisters just as we are excited about having another little one to love, raise & complete our family.  |
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We feel overjoyed to be blessed with the opportunity of raising our two wonderful daughter's, Alanna and Brooklynn, who also joined our family through adoption back in 2007.
Alanna is a sweet and talkative, outgoing 4-year-old who enjoys dressing up as a princess every day. She typically has a happy-go-lucky attitude and is very caring. She's always looking out for her slightly younger sister Brooklynn and even enjoys spoon feeding her on occasion too which Brooklynn gets a kick out of. One of Alanna's favorite activities is coloring.
Brooklynn is a also a very sweet and talkative 4-year-old who is just 5 months (to the day!) younger than Alanna. She can be quite a little clown and enjoys making people laugh but at the same time can be a little more shy and sensitive than Alanna is. Brooklynn enjoys being creative and likes to paint and do other types of crafts.
They are both typical little girls who are sweet, caring, gentle and loving. They're extremely excited about the prospect of becoming big sisters and talk about the new baby all the time.
This child will be raised surrounded by much love and care as well as by the attentiveness of not only us but two eager big sisters who will be looking out for this child throughout life too also knowing first hand what it's like to be adopted and a part of a multi-racial family.
As a transracial family already we are extremely understanding, accepting of and sensitive to different ethnicities and cultures around us. We love the fact that our family is created differently and feel that it's part of what makes us unique and special.
We feel very fortunate to live in a culturally diverse community where there is a wide variety of ethnicities and cultural differences that surround us. We think this is especially great to have within the school systems so that our children feel comfortable exploring not only the differences about themselves but about those around them also.
A wonderful aspect of the military life is that it too is filled with a wide variety of ethnicities and cultural differences. It gives us as well as our children opportunity to learn about and experience new cultures all the time. Even a simple trip to the grocery store on base can be a positive learning experience in this.
We think it's important for each of our children to know about and be proud of their own personal heritage but at the same time we don't put excessive focus on our children's ethnic differences because we don't want them to feel singled out due to them. We Instead approach their differences with warmth and acceptance leaving things open for them to explore as they desire. We are always there to talk, listen and support them with any questions and needs they may have.
Jody was raised by her grandmother which was her first experience with an adoptive type situation. Jody also remembers having the thought, for as long as she can remember, that she may one day adopt too.
Roy's sister has a 6 year old son who she adopted from infancy. We remember the pure happiness and joy that filled each and every one of us when he joined our family and it was through this wonderfully positive experience that we realized, after discovering our own struggle with infertility, that this too was the path we wanted to pursue in creating our family. It was his sister's positive experience that gave us the courage to move forward. We just knew that it was meant to be.
We always dreamed of a large family and the adoptions of our two daughters have been incredible blessings to us. We feel a deep appreciation for each of their personal stories that brought them too us and are very positive and open about their adoptions to them both. Jody often explains to the girls that they did not grow in her tummy but in her heart.
We feel the various ways that adoption has affected us personally has taught us that we have so much love to share and that it doesn't matter at all to us whether children join our family through birth or adoption. We love them just the same.
