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Belles-Silcock Family Life

We are a very large family built through adoption. As such, many people are curious about our family life. We are often asked questions about our family. "How do the boys get along with each other?" "What does your family do for fun?" "Do you have any pets?" "What does Christmas look like at your house?"

For some of our children, our family is their first family. Prior to joining our family they may have lived in hospitals, nursing homes, orphanages or group homes. Other children have had multiple family experiences. Some have been abusive and other have simply "not worked out." Many of the boys joined our family through the state foster care system, other through international adoptions, still others through disrupted adoptions, finally a few through private adoptions. Our children have come from all over the world with many different life experiences, as well as, a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. It is our job then, as their forever mom and dad, to bring all of these strangers together and form a well-bonded and loving family.

Jim and I want our children to understand that they are part of a family now and forever. To deepen that understanding we have developed our own family traditions that always incorporate positive traditions that the boys bring to this family from their family of birth or other previous placements. We also use family photo albums, home movies, and this web site to strengthen the family bond.

This section will give you a glimpse of our family life in pictures. We hope you will see that despite our size and our various adoption stories, we are a family in the true definition of the word. Information about each of the boys can be found by clicking their name on the home page.
 


Christmas 2007

 

 

 

Belles-Silcock Family Life

 

Brothers

     

 

 

 

Family Actors

 

 Our Travels

 

   

Fun At Camp

   

 

 

 

 

Team Silcock

Shawn, Alex Daniel, Jeffrey, Paul, Grant, William, Paul, Val, Ivan, Jimmy, Alexander, George and Jim Silcock, Chris Zalameda, David Monson, and Dave Nachmanoff

June 2, 2005


Lots of brothers, they come from far and wide

Russia and Romania, and also Oceanside

Carolina all the way to Kazakhstan

Brought together by the grace of a woman called St. Ann

 

Chorus:

 

No one’s left out, no matter what they can do

Team Silcock will always find a place for you

 

Now that we’re together, just three simple rules

First make your mother happy, don’t be acting like a fool

Two, respect your brothers, and three, respect your pets

If you follow these three rules, your life will be all set

 

(Repeat Chorus)

 

Though you’re part of a team now, you still can be yourself

No one will expect you to act like someone else

Always someone there to lend a hand

There’s someone there to listen who you know will understand

 

(Repeat Chorus)