{"id":1754,"date":"2009-08-06T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T14:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2009-08-06T09:28:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T14:28:24","slug":"can-i-take-your-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/can-i-take-your-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I take your picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we were walking around Seaside looking at stuff and this woman (young, with a little girl and husband) stopped us asked if she could take Eva’s picture. “She is just the most beautiful baby I have ever seen.”<\/p>\n

Andy was carrying her in her carseat so we said sure- let her snap a few.<\/p>\n

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Recently Andy and I were talking about how we are tired of everyone (including us) introducing Eva as our “adopted” daughter. We just want her to be our daughter.<\/p>\n

But when people stop us and tell us how cute she is, I never know what to say. “Thanks” doesn’t seem right, after all I am not responsible for her dna. Although I did pick out that stinkin’ cute dress \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I love to talk about adoption and encourage others to think about it too, but I don’t want that pressure on Eva. Sure she has no idea what we are saying now, but soon she will. I don’t think she would like to hear, “isn’t she cute? We adopted her” every time someone makes a comment. In some families adoption is obvious. And that opens the door for a lot of discussion, good and bad. But Eva looks like Andy. I don’t think people assume she is adopted. That makes things a bit more tricky.<\/p>\n

So, I am still thinking about the best way to handle this and set a good example for the boys.<\/p>\n

In the meantime this seems to be her reaction.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday we were walking around Seaside looking at stuff and this woman (young, with a little girl and husband) stopped us asked if she could take Eva’s picture. “She is just the most beautiful baby I have ever seen.” Andy was carrying her in her carseat so we said sure- let her snap a few. Recently Andy and I were talking about how we are tired of everyone (including us) introducing Eva as our “adopted” daughter. We just want her to be our daughter. But when people stop us and tell us how cute she is, I never know what to say. “Thanks” doesn’t seem right, after all I am not responsible for her dna. Although I did pick out that stinkin’ cute dress \ud83d\ude42 I love to talk about adoption and encourage others to think about it too, but I don’t want that pressure on Eva. Sure she has no idea what we are saying now, but soon she will. I don’t think she would like to hear, “isn’t she cute? We adopted her” every time someone makes a comment. In some families adoption is obvious. And that opens the door for a lot of discussion, good and bad. But Eva looks like Andy. I don’t think people assume she is adopted. That makes things a bit more tricky. So, I am still thinking about the best way to handle this and set a good example for the boys. In the meantime this seems to be her reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-eva"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}