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Access Hollywood - Madonna ‘very relieved’ to have son at home
Singer says she feels uproar about adoption ‘a personal attack’
The very first night,” asks Nancy, “what was that like?"
It was a morning, actually,” remembers Madonna. "He arrived at 7 o’clock in the morning and the children were getting ready for school. We were all in the kitchen, it’s that quiet thing that happens in the morning when no one’s totally awake, the coffee’s brewing. He came with my nanny. And the door opened, it was just really quiet and she walked in and she was carrying David and the children just ran to him. Lola grabbed him and held him and it was just this strange quiet moment. It was amazing."
Madonna also tells Nancy she was “very relieved” to have her son home, especially after all of the visa problems surrounding the adoption.
The singer was forced to leave Malawi without her son in order to make her daughter, Lola’s 10th birthday party.

Madonna tells Nancy that Lola was “bummed out” when she returned home without David because “she thought that was going to be her birthday present. So [she was saying] every day, ‘Is David coming? When’s he going to get here?’ They were very excited.”

Nancy notes that Madonna has said she was drawn to him, and asks what it was that made her know that he was the one.

There is no hesitation in Madonna’s answer.
“His eyes. He just had a soulfulness and a knowing look in his eyes and the first time his head turned around and he looked into a camera, I was completely drawn to him and curious about him. He haunted me.”
Madonna’s even learned a song in David’s native language of Chichewa to sing to him.
“One of the ladies that worked at the orphanage was always singing it to him so I said teach it to me.”
And besides lullabies, like most 13-month-olds, David also enjoys learning new things to say.
“He doesn’t have that many words,” says Madonna with a smile, “he says bye bye bah bah and mama. That’s his vocabulary right now.”
Soon, David will get to meet all of his famous mother’s famous friends. Madonna tells Nancy that she is already planning a playdate with Gwyneth Paltrow’s 6-month-old son, Moses, as well as an introduction to her good friend, Rosie O’Donnell.
“I obviously you know relied on her advice a lot, because she’s adopted 3 children, to guide me through this whole process.”
But not even an adoption vet like Rosie could have imagined the drama Madonna would go through when it came to bringing David home.
Nancy notes, “Angelina Jolie goes off and adopts a child and she almost becomes a saint and then there’s this controversy surrounding the wonderful thing you are doing. Did it feel in any way like I’m a little hurt by this?”
“It felt unfair,” says Madonna, “It felt like a personal attack. It felt like it had nothing to do with what I was actually doing.”
Madonna On Lourdes & Rocco
"I would rather have a child who is strong-willed & challenged me about everything, because I know later on in life that's gonna serve them well than someone who's passive & doesn't question things,"
Madonna told Nancy O'Dell in response to being asked about the striking similarities between herself and daughter Lourdes.
It certainly is hard to imagine anyone in Madonna's family being passive about anything!

The 48-year-old mom also says that both 10-year-old Lola and 6-year-old Rocco were very vocal with their opinions about expanding their family.
"Lola wanted a girl, Rocco wanted a boy & they were like, ‘Well, can't we have 2?'," Madonna said.
"Or 5?", Nancy asked.
"Yeah, or 5 or 8 or twins or you know, they were running every option," Madonna responded.
When asked about reports that there's a 3-year-old girl that Madonna wanted to adopt, she responded,
"No, I mean there's lots of little girls I met that I wanted to adopt. Maybe we'll adopt another one."
There's no denying that motherhood has been life-changing for Madonna, who's own mom passed away when Madonna was Rocco's age.
"When I went to Africa and I saw so many children without mothers," she said. "I know what that pain feels like. I really only talk to my daughter about it because she's the only one that asks me. She wants me to tell her about my mother and what was it like and how old were you, and how did you feel, and oh mommy it must have been so sad for you. But I'm sure when my son gets a little older… he only cares about soccer and ninja warriors and Star Wars right now."
Access saw Rocco playing soccer just yesterday in Central Park.
And of course, Madonna's kids love books.

Madonna has written her latest – a sequel called "The English Roses: Too Good To Be True," which deals with jealousy over a new boy in school.
How'd she come up with the premise?
"Well, I have a 10-year-old daughter & she has got friends & sometimes she thinks that people like her because I'm her mother & sometimes she thinks that people are mean to her because I'm her mother, and so it's a topic that we discuss, envy & jealousy on a regular basis."
And how does the mother who has everything help her daughter out with that?
"I use other people that are celebrities as examples. We went to the last Harry Potter premiere and she went to the bathroom and she met that actress she's obsessed with in the bathroom washing her hands (Emma Watson). She's like, ‘Mommy mommy I met her and she was washing her hands.' And so I use it as an example, I say, ‘You have an idea about who this girl is cause you've seen her in movies, but you don't really know her but you think you know her. …. That same goes for other people about me."

Source: NBC News by Nancy O’Dell / Posted: 11.2.2006
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