Happy Spring!

Sweet Baby Girl!

Abbi & Pop at Dollywood

Summer is Here!

We have had record heat the past few days. Hot Hot Hot! My friend Marci and I took Abbi to Dollywood yesterday, but I left my camera in the car!! Oh well. We had fun but roasted in the heat. Abbi discovered that water is fun. She played quite a while in the new part of the park where the water squirts out of a little wall. She would just stand in front of the water and let it squirt down the back of her diaper and just laugh. It was the cutest ever.

Abbi was ready to go home by the end of the day. When we got in the car she signed "all done" and said bye bye and just grinned like a possum. She is so much like her daddy. Loves to be at home!

Next week we are going to Splash Country with our friends and then on to Myrtle Beach the week of the 22nd. Can't wait for her to see the ocean!! Everytime she sees water she does the sign for "bath". I just know that when she sees the ocean she will sign "bath" like it's the biggest bath she has ever seen.

Today I took my exam to become certified to be an administrator. I must be totally crazy sometimes. A six hour essay exam has left me completely brain dead.

Happy Father's Day to all you great dads out there!! Especially my dad and my wonderful husband who is such a great dad to our little Abba Dabba!

Glad that summer is here!

Haven't posted in a long time. Teaching kindergarten and gettting my Ed.S. degree was a little more than I should have taken on right now. All is well now though. School is out and I will finish my degree on July 5th.

Abbi is doing great. She can say 11 words and knows about 40 signs. We are so proud of her. She has a little cold right now.

All for now, we are packing for camping in Pigeon Forge this week. Will post pics when I figure out how.

Celebrating a Milestone!

Welcome to my first blog post! I started this blog to tell others about the joys of raising a daughter with Down syndrome. She is a happy and beautiful 22 month old.



I want to celebrate a milestone reached today. She began to walk on her own. Not just cruising around furniture. Although she is still quite wobbly, she is learning to balance herself well. We are so proud of her. Parent's of children with DS know how hard she has worked to reach this point. Hours and hours of physical therapy have paid off.



She is the delight of our life! We are so thankful for her. I would like for other parents of children with DS to also share their joys of raising their angels from heaven with me!

I am sure I will get better at blogging as I post more. I will sign off for now.