SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A third-grader in Missouri is selling lemonade to help pay for his adoption.
Nine-year-old Tristan Jacobson sold $1 lemonades Friday in front of the home in Springfield. He lives there with Donnie Davis and her husband, Jimmy, who have been Tristan's kinship guardians since he was 5.
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The Springfield News-Leader reports the money from the lemonade stand and a weekend yard sale will go toward helping pay about $5,000 in legal fees so Tristan can be adopted.
Donnie Davis says she and her husband already consider Tristan their son. She says the adoption is "more for reassurance for him, knowing that he has his forever family and he has our name."
She says his father is incarcerated and his mother gave him up for adoption. Her family is the only family he's ever known. Donnie was Triston's step mother before Donnie divorced his father. The next thing Triston hopes to do is legally change his last name to Davis.
Here is the link to the page where he's received many of his donations. https://www.youcaring.com/tristan-jacobson-quill-davis-552049