Hakan & Frida

Our marriage is built on love, trust, and respect and we are each others best friends. Our highest priority is to provide our children with a safe and loving home and family, just like we both had growing up. We love being parents and we are so much looking forward to adopting another baby. Preferred Gender: Female

Hakan Frida Job Description Analytic Science Manager Stay-at-Home Mother Education PhD in Electrical Engineering Master of Science in Chemicial Engineering Favorites Childhood Memory Camping with Family Childhood Memory Playing on the Beach Color Blue Color Green Hobby Woodworking Hobby Yoga Food Indian Food Greek Vacation Spot Rocky Mountain National Park Vacation Spot Greek Islands Children Simon-5 years old, Sebastian-3 years old

Enjoying the Great Outdoors

Woodworking

In Our Front Yard

We adopted Simon when he was four days old. We had a chance to meet his birthmom a couple of days later. We spent a few hours together talking, taking lots of pictures and getting to know each other. We also got to meet his birth grandmother and we still keep in touch with her through occasional E-mails.

We adopted Sebastian when Simon was two years old. We talked to Sebastian's birthmother a couple of times on the phone before he was born. We also had a chance to meet both his birthparents and some family members at the hospital when he was born. At first, Sebastian's birth grandmother was against his birthparent's decision of adoption, but we still got along great and she said that she felt better about their decision after meeting us.

Simon loves to read his adoption scrapbook with pictures of his birthmom, the hospital where he was born, him as a baby etc. At first he did not quite believe in his adoption story and then he thought that all children were adopted, but now it seems like he starting to grasp the concept. Sebastian is too young to understand his story, but he likes to look at the pictures.

We send Simon's birthmom and Sebastian's birthparents letters with pictures twice a year. We tell them about a regular day in our lives, about the children's development, likes and dislikes, and we try to describe their personalities. We enjoy writing these letters and we hope that their birthparents enjoy reading them as much as we do. We are so blessed to have these two boys in our lives and we owe that to their wonderful and selfless birth mothers. We are so excited at the idea of adopting again.

Frida and Morris