I found these on my computer today. Look how tiny he was 😭. That’s a 3-month onesie that was swallowing him up.
I’ve been asked, “if you’re a photographer why don’t you post more photos of your baby?” And the truth is I was scared to post a lot of photos in the beginning. Unfortunately, there is a dark side to adoption and a lot of people are against it. There are anti-adoption groups who do nothing but bash adoptive and hopeful adoptive parents. There are some who had a bad experience with adoption and some who just hate it. Some of them screenshot posts from social media and share it in their group and they all talk about how disgusting we are and how we’re stealing babies from their “real families” or pressuring moms to place their baby. I’ve even seen it go so far as them going to leave comments on the post. For the record, Joseph was not stolen. His bio mom was not forced to place him and we didn’t force her into anything. She made the decision on her own. I’ve had some nasty things said to me about adoption by those “keyboard gangsters” and you can say what you want about me but that sweet little face is innocent. He was just born into circumstances that weren’t right for him and we were blessed enough to be chosen to be his parents. Life doesn’t always work the way we plan, we weren’t even supposed to start growing our family in Florida. If we moved back to Houston in 2016 or 2017 we wouldn’t be Joseph’s parents. When he’s old enough to understand he may struggle with his story or he may not. We won’t know until we get there. All I know is he will know he’s fiercely loved and protected by us.
We finally filmed our first YouTube video! We’ve been talking about it for years and I just started recording in the car. Solomon and I are answering some of the most frequently asked questions about our adoption. I’ll post the details when it’s live on our channel. Hopefully by the weekend. 🤞🏽
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