Oh, the drama!

Submitted by Adoption on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 9:31pm

Well, folks, I may be opening up the adoption blog again just as a place to vent and share our adoption story. We've decided once again to take everything adoption related off the front page. There seems to be some competitive feelings among some members of Eliana's birth family. So in order to keep everyone's emotions on an even keel, we're going to avoid mentioning them or posting pictures of birth family members on our main pages. Hopefully as things calm down and everyone settles into their new roles, things will be less raw and emotional. I guess everything was going too smoothly and we had to have some excitement to keep things interesting.

Here's what I removed from William's weblog:

I brought Button with me to Skip and Mary's house today. They are Dani's mom and dad and they said I could call them Grandma and Grandpa. They had some fun toys for me to play with and furniture that they let me jump on, just like my other grandparents. Grandpa Skip did magic making coins disappear and reappear in my ear! He even made Button disappear! But I found where he was hiding. You can't fool me all the time. They gave me a bag of oyster crackers to bring home for a snack, but "I can't eat all of them at once or I would get sick. I need to eat some each day." That's just what I plan to do!

And Eliana's weblog also said:

I had the chance to visit with lots of family this weekend. Grandma Barb and Grandpa Ron had us over on Saturday. I got lots of snuggling and visiting there. On Sunday we went to Maple Grove to visit with Dani and her family at my other grandparents' house. Some of them hadn't seen me since the hospital. And for most of them it was the first time they had seen me awake for any amount of time. I gave them lots of coos, smiles, cries, and even a blown out diaper. They got the full Eliana experience!