Down Syndrome - Sweet Lyla: August 2011

Welcome to our family blog!

The purpose of this blog is to be a journal for my children and to help other parents who have been given a diagnosis of down syndrome. It is so upsetting to think that 90% of parents who find out their baby has down syndrome choose to terminate their pregnancy.

Many times as in our case we had no real knowledge or life experiences of what down syndrome was like. It was absolutely frightening to be completely in the dark. However, there were only a couple of days of grieving for the child we had envisioned in our minds. Once we started researching all of the resources available, talking with other parents of children with down syndrome and began bonding with our beautiful twins we were able to see that our twins were not all that different. They were both two beautiful gifts from god.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Lyla is following in Carly's footsteps and is starting Wee Wuns preschool

We are so excited to start Lyla in preschool at Wee Wuns in Cypress, Tx. Carly is now in kindergarten however she still misses Wee Wuns. They have been so supportive in integrating Lyla in the classroom. I really believe she will be able to keep up with her two year old peers. She listens well and follows two step commands. She talks quietly however she is talking and babbling all the time.