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While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
Oakland, California
Thanksgiving
Our local farmers market on Saturday mornings
Summers in Maine with Dan's family
An incredibly sweet golden retriever named Brie
While we both grew up on the East Coast, we’ve been living in the Bay Area for more than a decade. We’ve built a fantastic community and established our careers and home. Most importantly, we welcomed our first adopted daughter, Etta, who is one of the most joyful and curious two-year-olds you could meet. For as long as we can remember, we dreamed of building a loving family of four, and cannot wait to complete our family. Having been adopted himself, Dan knows firsthand the unique beauty of growing a family this way. Thank you for taking the time to get to know us!
As you get to know Dan, you’ll learn that he’s the first person you can count on in a jam, has a knack for making anything beautiful, and can recite every line from the movie Titanic. Dan grew up in Massachusetts and spent every summer of his childhood surrounded by his extended family on a small island in Maine — sailing, building forts with cousins, and enjoying lobster bakes. That’s the kind of magic he makes for Etta every day, whether on the playground or in a post-dinner dance party. Dan is a world-class cook, a masterful skier, and is affectionately known by his friends and family as the “baby-whisperer.”
As you get to know Rob, you’ll learn that he’s deeply loyal, has officiated seven of his friends’ weddings, and loves belting out a 90’s rock song while on road trips. He grew up in Maryland but lived around the world — in Philadelphia, Argentina, and Botswana — before settling down 14 years ago in the Bay Area. As a former first-grade teacher, he’s always known he wanted to have his own children whom he could support in exploring their curiosities. That passion shows up with Etta, in regular story times or trips to the zoo. As a learner himself, you’ll often catch him reading a great book, pushing his pace during a run around Lake Merritt, or tackling his next baking project.
We live in the Crocker Highlands community of Oakland. We take daily dog walks down tree-lined streets and visit Etta’s go-to playgrounds. We have close friends peppered around the neighborhood and can often be found chatting in the backyard while the kids play or picking fruit from each other’s trees. We’re just down the hill from one of the best elementary schools in Oakland and around the corner from the city’s most epic trick-or-treating street. Brie is our gentle golden retriever — she loves sticks, belly rubs, and any chance to swim.
Rob is incredibly close with his parents and two sisters, all of whom share an overactive group text and have spent thirty years perfecting annual family trips and card games. Dan was adopted at birth by his biracial parents, raised alongside his brother who is 20 years older, and grew up in a household full of music, skiing, and reading. Both families were so excited and supportive when Etta joined the family. We got to know Etta’s birth mother very well while we were at the hospital after Etta’s birth. Now, we primarily stay in touch through a shared photo app and chat back and forth, and when Etta is older, we plan to include FaceTime or in-person visits.
We know what a courageous and difficult decision it can be to choose a future family for your baby, and we’re honored to be considered. The last few years have highlighted that life is full of twists and turns. However, we can promise a home where your child is loved unconditionally and a life full of dog cuddles, Easter egg hunts with cousins, and exposure to boundless possibilities.