Celebrity Baby Blog / Sandra Bullock

Oscar winner Sandra Bullock opens up for the first time about fostering and adopting her 3½-year-old daughter, Laila. Subscribe now for instant access to the exclusive interview, plus the adorable family photos of Laila and brother Louis, or pick up PEOPLE on newsstands Friday!

When Sandra Bullock is tucking in her two kids at night, she has a go-to read-aloud: The Family Book, by Todd Parr.

“Everyone will find their family represented there!” she tells PEOPLE of the colorfully illustrated tale, which celebrates diversity.

After a day chasing 5-year-old Louis, 3½-year-old Laila and dogs Poppy and Ruby, Bullock finds herself “asleep by 8:45 p.m.,” she says. “But I’m up by 5:45 a.m., so there’s that. That’s what makes me happy — having so much love.”

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Oscar winner Sandra Bullock opens up for the first time about fostering and adopting her 3½-year-old daughter, Laila. Subscribe now for instant access to the exclusive interview, plus the adorable family photos of Laila and brother Louis, or pick up PEOPLE on newsstands Friday!

Sandra Bullock is gearing up for her first Christmas as a mom of two — and she has a few ideas in mind.

“Usually I dress as Santa and sneak outside so that there is a Santa sighting in the dark Christmas Eve,” the mom of 5-year-old Louis and 3½-year-old Laila tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s cover story.

“But Louis is onto me that I always have to ‘walk the dog’ when the family has their sighting. So I ordered the XL Santa suit this year and will pass the torch to my brother-in-law so I may watch Laila see him for the first time.”

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Oscar winner Sandra Bullock opens up for the first time about fostering and adopting her 3½-year-old daughter, Laila. Subscribe now for instant access to the exclusive interview, plus the adorable family photos of Laila and brother Louis, or pick up PEOPLE on newsstands Friday!

He’s only 5, but Louis Bullock knew he was ready for a sibling before his mom did.

In this week’s PEOPLE cover story, Sandra Bullock reveals that when the topic of kids arose at a dinner with friends about three years ago, her son Louis made an announcement.

“He puts his hands behind his head and leans back and says, ‘I don’t have daughters,’ ” the star recalls. “And we agreed as well that he didn’t have daughters, and then he said, ‘but I’m gonna have a baby soon. I don’t know its name yet, but it’s coming.’ ”

The conversation took place around the time that Bullock, 51, began the process in Louisiana of fostering daughter Laila, now 3½.

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Oscar winner Sandra Bullock opens up for the first time about fostering and adopting her 3½-year-old daughter, Laila. Subscribe now for instant access to the exclusive interview, plus the adorable family photos of Laila and brother Louis, or pick up PEOPLE on newsstands Friday!

When Sandra Bullock embarked on the process of adopting her daughter, 3½-year-old Laila, she had a key concern: protecting the little girl’s privacy.

“You feel it’s very much like witness protection,” the star, 51, tells PEOPLE exclusively in this week’s cover story.

Bullock, who fostered Laila (pronounced Lila) before adopting her, feared that the process would be jeopardized by the intense spotlight of her stardom — a fear that proved especially scary during an emergency room visit before the adoption was complete.

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