[dvcer]

My son is only 22 months old and it will be some time before he will really be able to understand the concept of adoption, but I have always wanted "adoption" to be part of his vocabulary so that he totally accepts it and it's not a huge deal.

Anyway, I was thinking about it last night and I came up with an idea that I really like. I'm going to use pictures of us, him and his birth parents to create a story book about him. I plan to laminate the photos and text and then hole punch it and bind it together somehow. I want to follow a very simple, childlike format and make it a story that a toddler will enjoy and understand.

I think this will take the difficulty out of telling him about his adoption and about his birthparents. I didn't want to wait until it became a "big deal" to tell him. I feel that if we present the story of his adoption in a way that's comfortable and natural then he'll be able to accept it as part of who he is and not have any issues about it. The fact that we're in touch with the bmom will help with that too.