[pa-mom2twins]

A suggestion for a gotcha day celebration that was a recent thread is the personalized Guatemala baby adoption book. Our friends were so impressed how the book told their very own adoption story and their child was thrilled to read their very own name and story over and over again. They got it from http://www.memoriescherished.com in the adoption baby book section.

[oldturtle]

I read with interest your post concerning 'gotcha' day. I'm fairly new to this forum, and had never heard anyone else talk about 'gotcha' days. When my kidlets were small we had them, and thought we had invented them!! It's great to hear that others have thought of this, and celebrate. Gives me a little chill!

When we adopted our first, she was nearly 4 months old, so that day, of course, became her 'gotcha' day. Nearly 3 years later we adopted our second daughter who was only 4 days old, and I found I was pregnant with our son. We still wanted to celebrate a 'gotcha' day, but while we wanted each of our kidlets to think of themselves as 'speci

[oldturtle]

I read with interest your post concerning 'gotcha' day. I'm fairly new to this forum, and had never heard anyone else talk about 'gotcha' days. When my kidlets were small we had them, and thought we had invented them!! It's great to hear that others have thought of this, and celebrate. Gives me a little chill!

When we adopted our first, she was nearly 4 months old, so that day, of course, became her 'gotcha' day. Nearly 3 years later we adopted our second daughter who was only 4 days old, and I found I was pregnant with our son. We still wanted to celebrate a 'gotcha' day, but while we wanted each of our kidlets to think of themselves as 'special' we didn't want any of them to believe they were more special than the others.

Our solution was to take the original 'gotcha' day and turn it into our special 'children's day'--a celebration of having all three of them. Once, while explaining the origin of 'children's day' to my little ones, my son looked at me and asked, "Why didn't you adopt me, too?" It took a little while to sort that one out in a way they could all understand.

Now that they're all grown up and live in different areas of the country, we still celebrate by sending cards and little gifts-----and my son, at 22, still says, with a twinkle in his eye, "I STILL think you should have adopted me, too."