Arianna's Birth Family

Many people have asked about how we were going to tell Ari about adoption. I never plan to have a sit down chat to announce to her that she is adopted. We hope that it is something that she will grow up always knowing. 
We show her pictures of her birth parents and explain to her that she came from Lindsey's tummy (we will share more details as she gets older).  Part of her knowing she is adopted is knowing her birth parents and family. That is a relationship that we are still figuring out. But we started what I hope will become a tradition this past weekend up in Kansas City. 

Tyson and his mom met us at our hotel and we had dinner together. It took about 10 minutes for Arianna to warm up to them, but then she had a blast.

We had a great time getting to know each other better. We found out that Ari gets her height from Tyson's side. She has a biological half-sister who is 4 and the height of a 6 year old! So these growth spurts will not be slowing down! 

  

  

We were also able to meet with Lindsey and her family on Saturday. We met in the hotel, let Ari get comfortable, went swimming, then went to the Kansas City Aquarium. Ari pulled Lindsey around the entire aquarium and loved being the center of attention. 

Ari absolutely loved it! As you can tell it was very difficult to get her to look at anything besides the fish :) It was a perfect day.