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hi,
dd is only 16 months, but we have a photo album for her (small portable plastic one she likes to look at) and go over the names with her each day. All will keep their kinship titles except for bmom and bdad, who have become "bema" and "beda". So her bgrandparents are still grandparents, her cousins are cousins, baunts are aunts and so on. Since we don't like the use of first names of adults by children, she will always use their honorific title "Bema X" and "auntie X" and so on. Since greatgrandparents are alive, we'll call them bgrandparents too.
what we have done is graft those family trees onto ours, so all relatives are still her relatives.
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-first time amom to dd, born 7/7/04
-placed in our arms by a very loving bmom 7/9/04
-bfather's rights terminated 9/7/04
-just connected with bdad!!! 2/9/05
-visited bfamilies for a week, awesome trip 6/05
-bfather signed legally binding open adoption
agreement 7/05
-finalized (woohoo!) 18th of November 2005
-Thinking about adoption #2!
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