We became parents in 2024 when we adopted our son, Calvin. It was an incredible experience, and we adore him every day. There is nothing we could take more seriously than providing him with nurturing guidance, safety, support (being his biggest cheerleaders), and unconditional love. We look forward to bringing another child into this love as well.

It has also been a pleasure to build a relationship with Cal's birth parents and extended family. We have had visits and are in regular communication through phone calls, video calls, texts, and emails. This has been a beautiful experience that we deeply cherish. We remain open to communication for a future adoption. We want our children to feel pride in their adoption story, and we will embrace it lovingly throughout their life.

We were friends for four years before we started dating. From the night we met through mutual friends, we bonded over our shared passion for fighting injustice and expanding our perspectives through travel. These values formed the foundation of our friendship and now our marriage.

Our top priority is parenting and providing unconditional love to our son, Calvin. We love sharing adventures with him, introducing him to meaningful experiences, and supporting his growth.

We recognize the privilege in our lives and seek to better understand global inequities. We have both traveled with charitable organizations to countries like India, Guatemala, Tanzania, and Peru—learning from communities that model resilience and creativity. These experiences shaped our worldview and deepened our appreciation for cultural diversity.

We've brought these lessons home. Kevin works in philanthropy within the toy industry and serves on the board of a charitable organization. Monica works flexible part time hours for a nonprofit that combats global malnutrition, saving millions of children's lives each year. Part time work allows for lots of quality time to care for Cal.

As a family, we also focus on our community—dropping off meals, sharing flowers from our garden, making "caring cards," and offering a listening ear to those around us.

We're excited to welcome another child into our family and to share with them the same love, values, and global perspective. We look forward to nurturing their curiosity and compassion as they grow alongside Calvin.

Monica About Kevin: Kevin is fun to be around and the kindest person I've ever met. He is always smiling, dancing whenever he gets the chance, athletic, hardworking, and entertains others confidently. He genuinely cares about people and naturally puts them first. His career is dedicated to philanthropy, and he enjoys spending free time helping others.

Kevin encompasses a great balance: He loves being in large groups but also intensely focuses on one-on-one conversations. He engages in spontaneous activities but is structured in tirelessly working and taking care of our home.

Most importantly, he is the most incredible father to Cal with endless patience, games, love, and tends to all of his needs.

Kevin About Monica: Monica is thoughtful, caring, and goes above and beyond to make others feel loved. She loves celebrating family and friends, and has a tradition of writing "caring cards" to tell her family and friends how much she loves them.

She's the best mother to our son Cal, showering him every day with lots of hugs, kisses, and so much unconditional love!

Monica is passionate about embracing the beauty of other cultures. She has a big heart and dedicates time to research and address humanitarian causes around the world, and teaches these values to our son.

We live in a quaint, family friendly town. In our neighborhood there's a school, parks, pool club, fields to play, tennis and basketball courts, baseball fields, and woods with miles of hiking trails. We selected the neighborhood because it's safe, has a great school district, and is close proximity (10 minutes) from the city of Providence where we spend much time. Providence offers strong cultural and racial diversity, festivals, delicious varieties of food, and is a beautiful, historic city on the water.

Our home is 4-bedroom colonial style. It was important for us to have various sitting areas because it's a joy for us to regularly entertain and welcome family and friends. These spaces are decorated with pieces we've collected from communities around the world that have impacted us deeply during our travels. For example, we have baskets displayed from Guatemala that we were gifted during a visit with a sponsored family. In the winter, we gather around our 2 fireplaces. In spring, summer, and autumn, our time is spent on our screened-in veranda where we savor the beautiful scenery of nature changing and view of the sunset. We are outside as often as possible to enjoy our yard's garden, 4 fruit trees, flowers, swing, and fire pit - there's plenty of room to play outdoors!

Our neighbors are friendly, and we have friends with children nearby. We love enjoying this special community with our son.

We both have large extended families, and everyone is over the moon in love with our son, and couldn't be more ecstatic at the thought of welcoming another child to our family! This child would have an older brother named Calvin, 2 sets of grandparents, 9 aunts and uncles, 8 cousins, and lots of extended family members eagerly waiting to love them.

Monica grew up with 2 sisters who are now married with children. Her parents and sisters' families live in New Hampshire, which is just over an hour away. We have a cabin in New Hampshire, which is walking distance from cabins where Monica's sisters and her parents also vacation. At our cabin we spend time in the lake, paddleboarding, boating, hiking, and enjoying meals together. The nights are spent by the campfire under the sky full of stars.

Kevin grew up with 2 sisters and 1 brother. His parents live nearby us in a beach community in Rhode Island. He has 2 siblings and two nephews who live within a 20-minute drive and 1 sibling who is in Europe, which makes for a nice visit. We regularly socialize with his family and enjoy walking to the beautiful ocean beach nearby during the summer months.

Thank you so much for taking the time to review our profile. Please know that we are thinking of you during this time and our hearts are full of care and compassion for you and your family as you make this decision. Of course, we don't know you and what you are experiencing as you are expecting a child, but, if you feel as though it's best, we look forward to getting to know you and developing a relationship together. In this letter, we'd like for you to get to know us better so we will do our best to articulate who we are and what is on our hearts.

We are Monica and Kevin. We met 13 years ago through friends. We had both just returned from international trips with charitable organizations (the Philippines and Nicaragua) and bonded over our love for travel, meeting new people, exploring cultures, and learning from others. We built a strong friendship, which led to dating, and now we have been married for over 7 years. We prioritize our relationship and are grateful it's strong and healthy, as is our community of family and friends around us. We have dreamed of bringing children into all of this love for a long time.

Beyond the adoption of our son, we have both been around adoption in various ways throughout our lives, including with our niece who was adopted. Individually, we both always desired to build our family through adoption. We hoped to have children biologically as well, however that was unsuccessful due to unidentified reasons. While that was challenging, we are grateful that adoption was always in our hearts, and we cannot imagine a greater blessing than to continue to build our family in this way.

We feel blessed and grateful for the lives we have built and look forward to welcoming another child into this world. We aim to be intentional and live a healthy lifestyle that supports us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. This includes regularly eating whole foods, hiking in nature, swimming in local beaches, skiing, praying, meditating, socializing, reading, learning from others, talking openly about our feelings, and being supportive of our friends and family.

We live a short distance from a vibrant, diverse city and this is where we spend much of our time. We selected our neighborhood because it has a great school system, but we also believe in learning through curiosity and staying active in our community, volunteering, and traveling. While we love our New England life, we find deep joy in traveling. It allows us to learn about other cultures and embrace the beauty the world has to offer. As parents, we continue to embrace travel and enjoy it even more as we see it through the eyes of our child.

Being parents has, without a doubt, been the greatest joy in our lives and we hope to share this with another child. We have a large community of friends and family who are elated at the idea of welcoming another child. We also dedicate our time supporting children through our careers as Kevin works in philanthropy in the toy industry and Monica's company saves children's lives who suffer from malnutrition throughout the world.

Thank you for taking time to learn more about us. We are thinking of you at this time and wish you all the best throughout this process.

With love,

Kevin & Monica