Welcome to the third of my interviews with fathers around the blogosphere!

Ladd is a dad who blogs over at The Keith Family.  This blog is really just a lovely exploration of his family life with his partner Robb and their son Liam, and one of my favourite things about it is that they post tons of gorgeous photos.

I was first introduced to them via Ms. Core’s blog roll back in September 2008, and have been hooked ever since.  I highly recommend you drop by and say hello to all the guys!

1. You and your partner, Robb, adopted a gorgeous little boy, Liam, in September 2008.  What made you two decide to become daddies?
Robb has always talked about wanting children, but I didn’t even want to think about it until I was done with my masters degree and had started my career.  I think we just got to the point where we both knew it was the right time to start a family.  We literally talked about adopting one random weekend and had the paperwork to start the process the following Monday!

2. I find your blog to be refreshing, insightful, and full of love.  Liam looks so happy in every picture, and so do you.  However, as a white gay couple with an African-American son, you must get some incredible comments when you go out as a family.  Can you share some of the more memorable ones with us?
Thank you for the compliment!  It hasn’t been a big issue so far – we are lucky that Tucson is a very accepting city.  When people ask where we adopted from they often expect the answer to be a foreign country.  So when we answer “Brooklyn”, they usually do a double-take and ask again.  We always have to do a bit of educating since many people aren’t aware there are infants in need in the United States too.

3.  How has adopting Liam changed the dynamic of your home life?
Not as much we thought it would?  After almost a year of our new family it’s hard to remember what it was like (and what we did with our time) before we had Liam.  It’s much funner now for sure.

4.  Your blogroll has a lot of other gay family blogs on it.  Did you know all of these people before you started blogging, or did you meet them online?
Good question, we actually met most of them through blogging. There aren’t many other gay dads in Tucson so it’s great to have the network out there.

5.  You recently enrolled Liam in an afternoon daycare program in order to take care of your business and teaching a university class.  How is that working out for you all?
The first week was hard, but definitely harder for me than it was for Liam.  He’s a very social little guy and has adapted really quickly.  Of course, he’s already brought back some germs from his daycare.  You have to wonder how he’s only sick for a few days but then we both get sick for the whole week?

6. I *love* that you share your family portrait sessions with us.  Tell us a bit about your experiences with these — and, just as importantly, when will you be having another photo shoot?
I’m glad the hundreds of family pictures aren’t a big bore!  We are lucky to have a friend of the family who does photography, so the photo shoots are always really comfortable.  We’ll definitely have another when Liam is a year old, but the one I’m really looking forward to now is when Liam’s future little brother or sister joins the family ;o)

7.  Finally, describe your ideal Father’s Day to us.
We’re not really sure how Father’s Day works yet with two dads.  Do both dads get each other something?  Who cooks the special dinner (and more importantly, the dishes)?  We’ll probably go out to eat and spend the day having fun with Liam.

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