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just wanted to share how it can be when you adopt, having already had birth children. our AS came to us in Jan this year, he was 18 months. our bcs are 16, 12, 8. here''s the picture; little AS sitting with his big sister snuggled up watching cbeebies, big brother taught him how to play with bionicles yesterday and spent ages drawing with him, and really big sis took him out to the park for a little play and picnic. We all go off to the swimming pool, camping, beach, family do''s and have fantastic times together. he has so enriched our lives, really big sis has written a gorgeous song about her new brother, based her spanish oral GCSE on him coming to us, big brother calls him the coolest little bro in the world and big sis tells me she loves being a big sister even though she was worried about not being the baby any more. Yesterday we went to the beach with dozens of other adopted families all happily getting on with life. We have made great friends because of this journey for both ourselves, our AS and our birth children. Life is definitely amazing. So if you are concerned at all about adopting when you have birth children, yes it is different, I''d say being a mum or dad to an adopted child is definitely parenting plus plus plus and a real voyage of discovery, but it is also just brilliant!!!