Alex and Brittney’s mom was abusive, leaving a very young Alex to protect his sister at all costs.
“I remember my old mom wasn’t treating me nice when I was little,” Alex says. “She was having fights. She wouldn’t see Brittney, so I’d pick her up and I’d take her to a place where the fighting isn’t happening.”
Alex remember’s that his mother often did drugs. “I saw her doing a lot of smoke and not paying attention to me and my sister.”
After Alex and Brittney spent a year in and out of foster care, and then one day they met their forever family.
Alex says his first night with his new family was scary, but it felt different than the foster home’s he had stayed in.
“I didn’t have grown-ups that would take care of me like this — love me so much…” he says.
The family knew immediately that they wanted to adopt Alex and Brittney together. It took just one glance at their photos to know that those were their babies and that they couldn’t let them be seperated.
Watch the amazing adoption video for Alex and Brittney.
