As most of you know that reads my blog our family is made up of a wondrous array of children. Some being a mixed race of Caucasian and African American. Most of the children came to us as infant either from the new born nursery, neonatal intensive care and pediatric I.C.U. So of course we have lots of photos of the children from the time they were very young. In our experience the children of mixed race we adopted were very light skinned for the first year or so.
A few days ago as the kids and I were looking through some old pictures we came across some of Deebo (aka Tyler) as a toddler. Joey looked at the pictures and said, "Hey Deebs you look really white". To which he replied nonchalantly , "Yea, my other mother was really white". End of conversation.
This morning he started a new one with me just before the bus got here:
Deebo: Hey mom where's that picture of me when I was a baby?
Me: In the closet, why?
Deebo: Oh just because.
Me: Deebo, really why do you want the picture?
Deebo looking at me with a sheepish grin: Well I wanted to show my friends at school.
Me: A picture of you when you were a baby?
Deebo: No I wanted to show them I used to be white, I told them but they don't believe me!!
Enough said!
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