Our Story

When our son Jack was born with Down syndrome, we found out we had a lot to learn. Not just about the best way to nuture our child so he would grow up as healthy as possible, but about the whole world of special needs. One thing we learned, children born in some countries who have special needs generally don't go home with their mom & dad. They go to baby orphanages. We have decided to adopt one of these little angels, a beautiful girl with Down syndrome. We found our new daughter through an organization called Reece's Rainbow. They advocate for these little ones, trying to get them into the arms of their forever families. Please go visit. There is a button on the left. These children will touch your heart.







Saturday, March 19, 2011

Bad Blogger

I have a couple of posts I'm ready to publish except for the pics. I mean, what's the point of a post without pics, right? And Windows 7 has freaked out on me and won't let me just download the recent pics from my memory card. It wants to download the whole thing. Which really isn't a big deal except it's a 4gb and pretty much full and almost everything is already on here. So I can let it download everything (which will take awhile) and delete all the previous files, or wait 'til someone can help me figure it out. Wish I was better at this computer stuff.

Meanwhile, the little girl is doing great. We had her eye appt and turn out she does not have an eye turning in - it's pseudostrabismus. And her vision is great. We need to re-do some bloodwork but I'm not anticipating anything scary there. We had her IEP and yes, Dasha will be staying home for a bit longer (kids usually go to pre-school starting on their 3rd birthday here - I hate that). Since we have good reason to want her home, she still get her therapies (PT and OT at school and ST and DT at home) but no school 'til fall. We will put her in a once-a-week intro to school class, for 2 hours. I will stay the first day. It's not just that she will have trouble separating (she won't) or that I will (I will). But I'm not sure she really understands that we (her family) are permanent. Supposedly dropping her off and picking her up will help.

Have I mentioned she's not the most girly-girl?? She's not. Even with cute outfits, hair bows, and pink toenails, she's not one bit gentle or dainty. She still throws everything. She pulls up but violently. I should post a video so you know what I mean about that. She's very rough and tumble. Sometimes I wish for dainty because I'm tired of having my hair pulled. But Jack and Ty seem to like her this way so I'll try to be patient while we keep trying to teach "gentle".

1 comment:

  1. LOL - The Skink has never been very gentle either - hair pulling, throwing, yup... all of it. yet, as she's gotten older (she's 4.5 now) she's become a bit more gentle and has developed a liking of frilly, pink clothing. Your rough-and-tumble girl will hold up well with her brothers :o)

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