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Hi..
[font=Comic Sans MS]I am a big baby bragger:D (lol) If you are too you can post your AA/biracial baby(ies) picture here! Hope you enjoy [/font]
[font=Comic Sans MS]*Gifted to us from Haiti*[/font]
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Susan, your little girl is darling! You are welcome here, too. Transracial isn't only kids with African blood. I think those of us with black kids may tend to seek each other out more, but that certainly doesn't mean that those whose kids are Hispanic, Asian, etc. aren't welcome! KLL, the lotion picture is priceless! Somewhere, I have a picture of my youngest daughter at about two, where she had gotten into my bucket of flour and thrown handfuls over her head. A couple years later, she saw the picture and said that she wanted to see how it felt to be white! Dr. Amanda, your son's hair is like my youngest daughter's was at that age. It got to be fairly curly by the time she was a year old. You never know what the hair is going to be like!Dannie, I love the one with the dolls! I usually get my girls black dolls. Everyone else tends to give them white dolls and I want us to have a multiracial doll population.
Guppy- Your story is so moving. I cried several times reading that. Your love is inspirational.
There is really no telling. His hair is really soft right now. He has two bio-siblings (whom we met and played with). They both have slightly wavy hair with a little bit of coarseness (not as soft as his is now). We shall see.
noelani2
Dr. Amanda, your son's hair is like my youngest daughter's was at that age. It got to be fairly curly by the time she was a year old. You never know what the hair is going to be like!
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Yes, hair is really interesting! My first biracial child was pretty bald at first but what hair he did have was straight. When it finally grew in, it was just barely wavey and that was it. It was funny, because he looks much more black than white, in general. He wanted corn rows real badly as a teenager. We tried them, but they just wouldn't stay in, because the hair was too straight. My grandson, who is also black/white, doesn't have much hair, yet, but it looks like it is just going to be a little wavy, despite the fact that his daddy has what has to be the tightest, coarsest hair on the planet. My youngest daughter is Haitian and Filipino and also has two bio siblings. Her sister's hair is a lot more African but her brother's hair is more like hers; curly, but really nice textured. It is too bad the style is straight hair, now. She burns the heck out of it flat ironing it when it is just gorgeous if she just combs through it wet, fluffs it, and lets it dry naturally.
I last posted a photo when Mikey came home to live with us. Since then, he has grown into a wonderful little boy. He's almost 20 months old and his little brother is 11 months old. We found out that my wife was pregnant about 3 weeks after Mikey came home. Talk about a surprise!
Here's Mikey (AA/CC) and Tommy (CC) on our recent vacation.
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Guppy35
Since you got me going :)
Something my daughter wrote at the time that was shared with me later:
"I started trying to convince myself that he was my brother. But how could he be? I've never met him and we're not blood related. Even though I knew it shouldn't matter, I couldn't imagine how I could love him the way I loved my biological brother who died years ago. And then I heard him.
My Mom finally made it into Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, and to a phone. I called her and we spoke. I told her I missed her and we were trying our best to get her and the baby back into the country as soon as possible. Then she asked if I wanted to listen to him. I said yes and somewhere deep down was apprehensive of what would happen, what I would feel. Could I love him or would I just spend my life trying to treat him like we're siblings. The phone reached his ear and this snorting/purring noise came through the phone. I laughed. My brother sounded like a kitten-frog hybrid of some sort! And that strange noise sounded like it was mine. I wish there were more words to describe it but all I can think is `mine'. Everything inside me lit up and I felt every ounce of love you can feel for someone. Matthew is my brother!"
My daughter and son. Oh how they love each other :)
Yeah, Dad bragging again. Can't help it;)
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