Sometimes the speed of the gossip cycle surprises me, because I totally forget about stories which I covered just a few weeks ago. (And sometimes a story I covered a couple of years ago will feel like it happened last week.) That’s the case with this story about Sandra Bullock possibly adopting a baby girl – it just slipped my mind. The news was tentatively picked up by US Magazine, who reported that Bullock “was photographed carrying a baby girl into an LA hospital” on September 27. Radar “confirmed” the story that Bullock had adopted a sibling for Louis, and we didn’t hear much more about it.

It would be just like Bullock to eventually let us know she had a second child but to keep it under wraps when she was ready. She came out of left field with little Louis at a moment when all the tabloids were speculating on how she was coping following her divorce. As it turns out, it’s not true that Bullock adopted a baby girl. She said during the press tour for Our Brand is Crisis that “there’s only one adopted child in my household and his name is Louis.” Bullock added “If I had a second adopted child everyone would be hearing about it. I would be loud and clear and say ‘yes, I have officially adopted a second child.’ Now, Louis will be it.”

The interviewer then wisely changed the subject to the fact that the film was shot in New Orleans, where Bullock has a house. Bullock explained that she gave producers three locations to choose from for shooting “not including Puerto Rico and Bolivia where I feel happy to have Louis in school and that was Austin, LA and New Orleans. New Orleans is where we went.” She said Louis “was very happy” with the choice and her face lit up a bit.

Here’s the video of Sandra giving those quotes. You can tell that she loves to talk about Louis. I got the same impression when she explained to BET that made sure Louis knows and understands racism and how it can affect him.

Also, one last thing, if you parse her words a little she’s say she has not “officially” adopted a second child and she also added the qualifier “now” but that’s splitting hairs.