Down Syndrome - Sweet Lyla: November 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, November 23, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

I am so thankful for my beautiful baby girl Lyla and her brother Jay and sister Carly

They give everything back that I give to them tenfold.

Lyla now says 25 words - Hi, Momma, Dadda, Baba, Cookie, Thank You, Ball, Bath, Night Night, Nana, Puppy, Up, down, JJ, Sissy, On, Off, Ok, Food, Book, Bark, Roar, baby, teeth

She rides her plasma car, bounces on the trampoline and runs in all directions.

She is absolutely the sweetest little girl.