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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

TukiLogic on Adoption and VerbalVe on sister Mim

TukiLogic

Tuks: Mama, can we bring Luca home (a boy at the y's adventure alley)

Me: No, we can't because Luca has a family and Mama.

Tuks: I want (she still thinks because she wants it will granted, silly kid) to bring Luca home

Me: Is that how you think Ve came home, I just decided she would come home with us.

Tuks: Yes

Me: well it didn't work that way, Ve was adopted just like you were adopted.

Tuks: OH


I guess I have more education to do as to what adoption means. We read her Life book so she hears her story, but she may not be old enough to totally understand what it all means yet, and I am not ready to explain (science behind it) the whole growing in another woman's (birth mom's) belly, since Tuks is still only 3 and hasn't even attempted to ask where babies come from.

VerbalVe:

While looking at pictures of Mim

Me: Mim is your sister just like Tuks is your sister.

Ve: No

Me: yes, she is, she will be your sister

Ve: looking at me with a blank look on her face...

I am not sure if she likes the idea of Mim coming home to our family, or just not buying the idea that Mim is/will be her sister since they weren't the whole time they were at the O together. Poor kids, this all must really mess up their thinking sometimes!!

Again guess I have my work cut out for me. WHEW!!!

Posted by Aves @ Call of the Phoebe at 7:53 AM

3 comments:

Marta said...

Tuks cracks me up. I wonder what Ve thought was going on in Haiti, as she and Mim were 'grouped' together at appropriate times, ie pictures, your visit, etc. Maybe someday she will tell you.

January 28, 2009 at 1:02 AM
Brenda said...

You are great at this.

January 28, 2009 at 5:36 AM
veggiemom said...

Adoption is such a huge concept. Medina and I have talked about her family in Ethiopia since it was mostly all in Amharic and I only caught a few words. She knows that all the kids in the orphanages she was in were getting new families in America and Spain. Yet a few days ago we were talking about families and the "real mom" comment she had gotten and I said "Medina, some kids just don't understand adoption." Medina responded, "Mom, what's adoption?" It dawned on me that even though the facts of her life and adoption are discussed routinely, I had probably never used the word adoption with her.

We just keep talking and I know it wall all sink in with Medina and Ruby, just as it will with Tuki and Ve.

January 28, 2009 at 6:52 PM

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