{"id":38378,"date":"2017-08-03T06:15:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T06:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=38378"},"modified":"2017-08-03T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T06:43:51","slug":"parents-surprise-daughters-by-bringing-home-newly-adopted-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/family\/parents-surprise-daughters-by-bringing-home-newly-adopted-sister.html","title":{"rendered":"Parents surprise daughters by bringing home newly adopted sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Parents surprise daughters by bringing home newly adopted sister<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Parents surprise daughters by bringing home newly adopted sister:- Raygen Pruitt, 11, and Harper Pruitt, 6, knew for the past 10 months that their parents were working to adopt a child to join them and their two younger adopted brothers, Titus and Elliot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cThey would ask all the time, \u2018Have you gotten a call? When is our brother or sister coming home?\u2019\u201d the sisters\u2019 father, Shane Pruitt, told ABC News. \u201cAnd they definitely wanted a sister.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Shane Pruitt, 38, and his wife, Kasi Pruitt, 32, finally got the call the night of July 25 that a newborn girl was going to be their new daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">The Pruitts, who live in Rowlett, Texas, also found out they would pick up their daughter the next morning but they didn\u2019t tell their children, in case something fell through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">The Pruitts left their home while their children were still sleeping and arrived home a few hours later with their new daughter, who they asked not be named for privacy reasons. Raygen&#8217;s and Harper&#8217;s shocked reactions to seeing their sister for the first time was captured on video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Harper can be heard screaming, \u201cAre you kidding me?\u201d in the video, while her older sister, Raygen, breaks down in tears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cTheir two reactions are very fitting for their personalities,\u201d said Shane Pruitt, who works as director of missions of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. \u201cHarper, we say she\u2019s very spicy [and] Raygen loves to take care of others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">The video, which the Pruitts shared on Facebook and Twitter as a birth announcement, quickly went viral. Even Harper and Raygen have enjoyed watching their own reactions again and again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cOut of all of those views probably 200 are of our daughters watching it,\u201d Shane Pruitt said with a laugh. \u201cIf it shines a lot on adoption and encourages other families to step up and be foster parents or adopt, then that\u2019s the ultimate win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Shane Pruitt said the family feels \u201chumbled and excited\u201d to now be a family of seven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Their new daughter is 1 month old today and has been getting lots of attention from her sisters who were so excited and surprised by her arrival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cHer older sisters definitely think they\u2019re mommas too,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/parents-surprise-daughters-bringing-home-newly-adopted-sister\/story?id=48987063<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/family\/parents-surprise-daughters-by-bringing-home-newly-adopted-sister.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents surprise daughters by bringing home newly adopted sister Parents surprise daughters by bringing home newly adopted sister:- Raygen Pruitt, 11, and Harper Pruitt, 6, knew for the past 10 months that their parents were working to adopt a child to join them and their two younger adopted brothers, Titus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":38400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[940],"tags":[34113,34114,34115],"class_list":["post-38378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-newly-adopted-sister","tag-parents-surprise-daughters","tag-southern-baptists-of-texas-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}