tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10953798774609759012024-02-21T04:34:00.514-08:00Extra 21PB and JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414122565738998893noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095379877460975901.post-77986349868112725422015-05-08T21:54:00.000-07:002015-05-09T09:52:12.625-07:00Leightons Mother...<div>
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I've been thinking about how it feels being Leighton's mother. A mother of a child born with special needs. Being a mother of a child that has the label….child with a genetic DEFECT.<br />
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Being a wife and mother was all I ever wanted to be. When I was eighteen I stuck my life goals up on my wall by my bed and it was a total of three things. A temple, a family, and a four wheeler ;). It's not like I wanted it to happen really quickly, but it was my future plan. I wanted to have a family. College was hard for me because I never could find a focus on what I wanted to major in, so I took classes that interested me. Really important classes. Classes like dance conditioning. I didn't want to change the world, or be famous and have any attention on me. I just didn't have any grand future plans. I wanted and still want a life of peace, calm, and simpleness. I'm just not a world changer. I went to college, tried out and made the dance team (which by the way was how I met the hubs, thanks to dance friends), and I worked for my Mom.<br />
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So when I'm 20 along came my dream boy.<br />
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I was reading in my college journal a few months ago and I had written a list of what my perfect dream guy would be like. I had just broken up with a guy who had asked me to marry him a few times and I just knew he wasn't what I wanted in a husband, so I had written what I did want. It wasn't anything about looks. It was all about personality and I was laughing because it was like real life Mary Poppins. Someone somewhere had made hubs right off that list of 30-ish important traits he would have and magically he had shown up 3 months later. I didn't realize this had actually happened until I just read it. I'm going to be honest some of them are kind of annoying now, but I just have to appreciate it because I literally asked for it! Also cheesy but I had drawn a cartoony picture of him (I always doodled in my journals) and he had that exact hair cut, and had worn the same kind of plaid shirt on our first date.<br />
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Six months later temple is checked off.<br />
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Then a few years later we have our cute little Bubba, and I quit working for my mom, and quit waisting money on school. I get to stay home with him He's such a boy. Dirty, crazy, wild, and prone to give me heart attacks every second of my life! He's also a my best buddy. He's super outgoing and talkative, just like his daddy. He loves to make new friends and make people happy. He hates football (much to his dads sadness), but he loves baseball just like my Brothers, Father, and Grandpa. He gets in trouble a bit, but he tries to be a good boy. He's had stitches a few times and broken his nose, but he tries to save me from extra worry about him. He's great to text me where he is going at all times because he doesn't like me to worry. </div>
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Then came sissy and she is so girly girly, and such a good student. She is smart and her school teachers always love her. We don't worry to much about her because she's always trying her hardest to learn and improve, and she doesn't really ever get into trouble. She beats to her own drum in her fashion choices and cracks us up with her wit about life. She loves to dance. She especially loves ballet (thanks to seeing New york city ballet on sesame street when she's was two). <br />
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Of course they aren't perfect, but the hubs and I think they're pretty perfect. We, like most every other parent, think were so lucky to get these amazing littles as ours. Of course they have embarrassed us…Like the time Bubba had the massive fit at Target when he was 6, and the time sissy refused to give her church teacher a high five, or the many times she refuses to say hi to people, but they don't really embarrass us. We love them and are mostly always happy to claim them as ours.<br />
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And then comes Leighton.<br />
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I waited a while to have number three because I felt we weren't going to have it so easy this time around. I knew that people who have perfectly healthy kids every time are extremely fortunate. That just doesn't happen for everyone, and deep down I knew it wasn't going to happen to me. I was going to be thrown a loop for number three I just didn't know why. <br />
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I thought some kind of health problem like asthma like my brother or maybe diabetes. I thought it would be something hard but more like that. So when I feel like I have the courage we go for number three, and my 20 week ultrasound ends up being a lot longer then the other two. They look really close at her brain, hands, mouth, heart, feet, umbilical cord. They say her kidneys have extra fluid, but it isn't really concerning because nothing else is off. The hubs is fine with that answer and goes on without a second thought, but I worry, and I feel she has something. I keep getting a feeling she has Down syndrome, I see kids with Down syndrome everywhere. I never noticed them before, and then I notice them everywhere. I think a lot about it, and hope it isn't true. I pray it isn't true. When I'm ready to push I tell hubs to tell me if she looks "different" he laughs and tells me I'm crazy and in the quickest easiest delivery ever comes our little Leighton. She's is purple and the doctor says come on cry baby cry, Finally she does and the nurse takes her over to the incubator before I see her face. They clean her up, put her hat on, and wrap her in a blanket and hand her to her Daddy and then he brings her to me and my world stops, and I say "I know" and he kind of starts crying, and in my stupidity I think well this is my new reality, there is no more hoping it isn't true. I'm just going to take her home and protect her from this mean world, I will do my best. Little did I know babies who have Down syndrome don't usually just get to come home with you. She didn't ever leave the NICU again until she was ready to come home in a week.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Later alone in my room I think to myself I'm going to be the Mom who everyone feels sorry for when they see me with her. Their going to think I'm glad thats not me, and can you imagine??? I'm the odd women out with the special needs kid. What the crap I'm barely 31, now I'm going to have to hangout with 60 year olds because only older women have kids with Down syndrome. I'm so embarrassed, what kind of failure am I. I can't even have normal babies. I'm the worst mom ever. What ever did I do so wrong to have this happen to me. I try to express to hubs how I'm feeling. I obviously love her, but being a mom is my life's work. I never wanted to do anything else. He has a master degree, a career he keeps progressing in, an increasing income, as proof of his success, proof that he's doing a good job at his job.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"> When your a stay at home mom you want to do a good job too, but you have nothing really to show for it and so you want these kids to have the potential to turn into adults you can be proud of. I get that doesn't always happen because they have there own choices to make and life to live, but you don't want to mess up at the get go, and I really felt embarrassed to have screwed it up. You want to give them everything in your power to succeed in life and something I had done had ruined it for her. How could I have ruined it for her in the only area I actually felt I had a little control. When she was in the womb! These thoughts are why I proudly post her pictures, and why I write my personal thoughts about it for people to read. Because I was so wrong about it all, and I just didn't know any different. </span><br />
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The next morning after a lot of tears, scary words from doctors, and a nerve racking procedure she had done in the middle of the night, I finally got to hold her again. A calm came over me and I felt such happiness in her presence. I promised to her I would love her with everything I had. I don't even know if I truly did that with my other children, because I knew they would find love and acceptence from people other then me in their life. With Leighton I didn't know if she would find it, and so she would get from me, all the love I could give her. She would get all of my heart. The sense of failure, and embarrassment didn't instantly go away. It was a roller coaster, but whenever I was in the NICU with Leighton everything was right in the world. <br />
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In the first week I made a choice to make this a positive and happy blessing. I decided to never again feel sorry for myself about this wonderful thing that has happened to me.<br />
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I hope by my example my children can be proud and not embarrassed for having a sibling with Down syndrome and for now its proven to be true.<br />
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I know I still get looks of pity, I see it, but it really doesn't bother me. I know people look at me and they are glad its not them, and thats ok because now I'm glad it's me and not them too. I will keep doing what makes us happy as a family helping my kids achieve what's important to them. I have learned so much about what success, happiness, and contentment really is for me. It has changed from what I pictured as a 18 year old, 25, year old, even 31 year old. The best part of being a mom is learning to broaden your view, social circle, and even ideals because of what your children teach you. Having Leighton brings me back to what's truly important for me as a mom when I let myself slip a bit. I don't know if anyone but the hubs can really understand what it feels like to be the parent of this amazing girl. We daily have conversations about how lucky we are, and how much we love her all the time. We say we can't and don't want to imagine life without her. We are so grateful we get this experience to have her with us in our life. I still love being a mom, its still all my dreams come true, and it's even better then I thought it would be. All my children bring me happiness in their different ways and I'm so glad I have these, completely different from each other, little people to love and get to know. I love to get to witness new people open up to Leighton. I get to see a reflection of our joy cross their face for a that small moment in time.<br />
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It's just a small hint they get of the huge imprint of joy she has made on her families lives.<br />
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I have always wanted to visit some of Florida's Beaches on the Gulf. So I begged the hubs to take our Sunday and drive across Florida. We traveled through the scenic swamps and made our way to Sanibel Island, and Marco Island.</div>
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Marco Island was so fun!</div>
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All ready to go out for dinner.</div>
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Stumbled upon a beautiful Church in Palm Beach.</div>
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Trip Instagrams!</div>
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We just got back from another business trip with Leighton's dad. We are very lucky because the Hubs bosses often include the wives when they travel and we get to accompany him on a lot of business trips. Leighton has gotten to travel so much and experience so many places in her 3 years of life. </div>
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This last trip took us to San Francisco.</div>
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We were a rare commodity (ladies with strollers) and I would have to say the locals were very helpful when we took the cable cars. We also got to experience tiny living in the smallest hotel room we have ever seen. We were very cramped and found fun ways to fit a stroller, carseat, 3 large suitcases, and crib into a room that barely fit the bed and desk in. Daddy bumped his knee or shine into the bed at least twice a day. The plus side of the tiny room, was first, we wanted to spend as little time as possible there. Second Leighton couldn't really do any damage because it took her two minutes to explore the place so she enjoyed Disney channel on the bed with the TV so close it was almost right in her face. Leighton was the luckiest girl because she was able to ride the Ferry two of the days. She really really loves being on boats. </div>
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First we went on a tour of Alcatraz.</div>
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Then that night we got to go to a party on the field at AT & T ball park. It was a really fun experience. We put Leighton down on the field and she dragged her daddy right over the the Farris Wheel. They had carnival games, food tents, a big stage. If you wanted to you got to go hit ball in their batting cages and a coach would help with your swing. Leighton can now say she rode a Ferris wheel in the outfield. Its was a really fun experience.<br />
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Its been awhile since I've written anything but life updates, but I've been thinking about things lately. So here's one of them. Leighton's "typical" pre-school didn't work out. I hear so much to treat her like my other children that I just assumed that the pre-school I put my other kids in was the way to go, but it wasn't. What I didn't count on when pushing for treating my child like her typical peers is that there are some things we will need to adapt and If you don't have a willing teacher, it's not going to work. The hard thing is you will see teachers adapt for the bully, the mommy clinger, the stingy toy hoarder. You see your child is actually very intelligent and she isn't pitching fits when she gets left. She doesn't beat up or bully the other kids, but she's kicked out because whats difficult to handle with her isn't considered "typical"behavior. That mixed with the tag of Special Needs, and your easy to remove from a situation. So for now we are happy she has her special needs preschool. The teachers are so excited to see her when she goes. She hugs her teacher so tight when she gets dropped off and she blows her and the aides kisses when she leaves and I think…..Hey she's going to school just like kids her age, and maybe this is the best place for her. She's happy, and they are willing to adapt to what she needs so she's included and learning. She doesn't have to feel different there because she fits in. She has therapist, and aides that help her to progress. I hear so much positive to push for mainstreaming our kids in school that it was kind of hard on me when it didn't work out. I'm sad that all the positive opportunities for the other kids and Leighton to learn from each other aren't happening, but we can address it again next year. Maybe with another teacher who is willing to adapt teaching methods, and include her. I have to admit the situation has made me a little gun shy. I haven't taken Leighton to her new church class (Sunbeams) yet. My first excuse is the sicknesses going around this year are bad, but there is this other reason too. What if the teacher isn't really willing for her to be there? How is it going to feel to get kicked out of church class or know the teacher is disappointed when she shows up. With preschool I could see a look cross her teachers face when we came that she wasn't excited for Leighton to show up. I chalked it up to my own fears until Her brother came to drop her off with me and he said it to me...I don't think she's happy Leighton's here mom. I tried a dance class with her too, and the teacher seemed excited to have her, but what if a few months in it's the same thing? It's really hard for me even though she doesn't get it. My point of writing this is, from here on out, I'm going to try to find things that are the right things for Leighton. So I won't feel guilty if mainstreaming doesn't work for my child, because it works for someone else's. Typical or adaptive, I want positive experiences for Leighton. This is what I've learned from schooling with Leighton so far. I'm going for a personalized education plan. </div>
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Here's a few pictures from the last two work trips. We decided to leave Leighton home to see how she would do. She did awesome, but we missed her, and plan to take her on the next few. </div>
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(nice hair, We took a total of 3 pictures and my hair looks like this in everyone)</div>
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The hotel we stayed at was AMAZING (the Montage…stay there if you get the chance)</div>
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This fall we also took a trip to Austin, TX</div>
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I've heard about the rain in Texas and it didn't disappoint (for the 5 minutes it rained). Either did the heat. It was pretty miserable, and the Texans were acting like it was cool…98+ humidity try sweating buckets hot. </div>
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School started and Leighton has been going every morning to two different schools. I really really miss her, but I'm having fun dressing her up. Also she seems to be learning a lot.</div>
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brother started junior high, and so you know it's way harder to let them go </div>
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also Baseball and Dance are back in full swing.</div>
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PB and JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414122565738998893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095379877460975901.post-88879732221751774702014-06-14T16:43:00.005-07:002014-06-14T18:18:48.765-07:00Disneyland...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today was the Walk With Angels. It is an event we participate in every year with the <a href="https://www.unitedangelsfoundation.org/">United Angels Foundation</a>. We had a great time. Here's some pictures.<br />
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<i>(Sister and The other half of Chrome Cousins….)</i></div>
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<i>(Leighton meeting some princesses….)</i></div>
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Well, Hubs won another incentive trip to Hawaii this year and I talked him into making it into a family vacation. </div>
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<i>(Dad and Leighton in Lahaina) </i></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">All of our schedules aligned and it ended up being perfect timing. It was so much fun taking all the kids to experience Maui. It was a vacation of many first for them. </span></div>
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<i>(We all voted and this was the best Shave Ice…a must )</i></div>
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<i>(Brother, was a natural at boogie boarding, and fearless touching the sea creatures...he's holding a black starfish)</i></div>
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This trip took us to the Florida Keys. Our hotel was on Key Largo at the Ocean Reef Club it was really nice.</div>
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We ended the Day, by chance (I guess it's something your supposed to do there) with dinner at Mallory Square and we enjoyed the sunset.</div>
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So back to NOLA. I've heard it's pretty dirty here and yes I would agree, but it was also a very fun trip. I would recommend a trip here if you get a chance. I have always wanted to visit the south. I love books based around the Civil War, plantations, and slavery. I like to understand peoples mind sets at that time, and find the History very interesting. Anyway I would have to say it was the most educational trip I have been on. Hubs was in trainings all day so we took off and explored a little of the city. It was unusauly cold there, especially the first day and I didn't take any pictures of the first day with my good camera because I forgot it in the hotel. We visited the Aquarium and it was really fun for Leighton and we stayed nice and warm. Here's my pictures from day 2 and 3 though.<br />
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On River Walk</div>
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The Mississippi River</div>
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We took the ferry across and that was Leighton's favorite thing we did. </div>
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We shopped the French Quarter and tried Beignets (a must do) from Cafe Du Monde</div>
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I dragged the Ladies on a Plantation Tour and I am SOO glad I did. It was amazing even if I earned the nickname "DORA" (dora the explorer) from them. I was raised to travel this way and so I think I'm normal. </div>
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A classic Creole Plantation with the colors and decor inside.</div>
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You've heard of Uncle Remus, and Briar Rabbit. This is the plantation where He lived and the stories were told. It was my favorite of the two. I could have stayed and learned about it's history all day.</div>
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Orange Trees</div>
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(I've always wanted one)</div>
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This Plantation was so Grand The trees were nothing I've seen before and everything you would picture a Plantation to be. </div>
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Vacation Instagrams</div>
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PB and JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414122565738998893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095379877460975901.post-15503720289464851742014-03-12T12:43:00.004-07:002014-03-12T12:43:51.010-07:00our insta-life...<div style="text-align: center;">
I decided to clean out my iPhone pictures and I realized how bad I have been at blogging so here's a partial catch up on what has happened in instagram pictures. </div>
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Right before Thanksgiving we took a trip to Disneyland. </div>
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Brother was playing in a baseball tournament so we figured we were half way there so why not?</div>
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It was so much fun. </div>
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trip instagrams...</div>
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Here's some of Leighton's Christmas instagrams....</div>
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and here's some (fun, important, & my favorite) instagrams that's happened in December and January..</div>
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and that's a little of our life brought to you by instagram...</div>
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PB and JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414122565738998893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095379877460975901.post-30408029821129197522014-01-20T15:38:00.000-08:002014-01-20T15:38:18.210-08:00Little Red is a bit late.....<div style="text-align: center;">
I just barely loaded my pictures from Halloween on my computer. I know it's sad how long this took me, but there was some super cute ones of Leighton I still wanted to post because I just loved her Halloween costume. </div>
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Hubs and I started building these huge frames this fall. </div>
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I finally finished painting them, and hung them up.</div>
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I also finished painting my new wood shelf.</div>
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Here's some Christmas projects I did</div>
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(Painted wood laser cut snowflakes white and hung them)</div>
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And I found these vintage 1960's bottle brush wreaths on Etsy </div>
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Yesterday I learned that people believe if they were to have a child with special needs this would isolate them. I have learned through this experience that it is not true, at least for us, at least not with Down syndrome. If someone decides to boot you out of their life because you have a child with special needs then who needs them anyway right? I haven't had anyone do that to me (at least not that I can tell anyway). If they did we must not have been close enough for us to feel it. I personally get more invites because people want to hang with Leighton they say- your bringing Leighton right? If I think its not an appropriate place to bring a two year old their like- Umm where's Leighton, its not as fun without Leighton here! (Oh Hi! Hubs and I are here though... alright I get it, I know were not as awesome) She's a pure ball of joy walking around and most people cheer up when they notice her. I see smiles out of the corner of my eye, and overhear comments about her. So I end up talking with strangers all the time and I actually get more human contact and conversation when she's with me. When I'm without her people usually ignore me and go about their lives because I'm nothing special. <br />
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If the worry is about family and friends not being able to "get it" when they need advice, help, or support. They most likely won't, but guess what? Your not the only one out there raising a child with special needs. You actually will have a massive amount of new friends waiting to meet you and to help you navigate through it all and completely understand how you feel. So in the end you make a whole new community of friends you never would have met without your awesome child.<br />
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This Picture of Leighton I took because she had sorted through about 100 stuffed animals and paired these to up and brought them out to play. She had just watched Mickeys Twice upon a Christmas and the first little story is Minnie and Daisy in an Ice skating battle. She does smart stuff like that all the time, and I know I shouldn't be surprised, but for a girl who doctors told us would very likely be unintelligent we notice a lot of little smart things all the time. </div>
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PB and JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414122565738998893noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095379877460975901.post-23846132547003358532013-10-25T23:01:00.004-07:002013-10-25T23:01:54.386-07:00Awesome{10•25}<br />
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PB and JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414122565738998893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095379877460975901.post-51565679337431400682013-10-23T22:51:00.001-07:002013-10-23T22:51:23.192-07:00Bigger and biggering...<div style="text-align: center;">
It's kind of a big deal that Leighton can just hold my hand and walk in to places with me. It took me by suprise and this was a realization she isn't a baby anymore. This growing up thing is moving a little to fast for my liking. </div>
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PB and JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414122565738998893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095379877460975901.post-68691017427069833502013-10-22T22:37:00.003-07:002013-10-22T22:40:39.198-07:00therapy<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Therapy is part of a families life when you have a child with Special Needs. I'm probably the worst Mom when it comes to doing therapy. I don't focus</span><span style="text-align: center;"> on therapy very much when were not meeting with therapist. We play a lot, watch TV shows together, I sign with her as much as I remember, and give her the opertunities to learn. We have therapy appointments (it seems) all the time. We go to group therapy weekly, but it actually feels more like fun then therapy (it's kindermusik) </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Leighton is awesome at ring around the rosies, saying aaahhhnnnd STOP!, and doing a lot of the actions from class. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Her teacher is awesome and she's teaching Leighton survival techniques (if she ever falls in) as well as swimming. I feel its essential for a baby who has a magnetic pull to water. We saw great improvements in her gross motor skills whenever she was doing sessions. She started crawling the first session and walked her third sessions. She also learns to practice hard things, and its OK to be separated from Mom when she's learning. We do therapy all the time we just don't think about it all the time (if that makes sense). Leighton would probably progress faster if she had a more therapy focused Mom, but I sure do Love her to pieces and I try my best to balance her life between the work and fun. Right now I think she learns through her play so its not to bad to focus on that for now. </span></div>
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PB and JShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02414122565738998893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1095379877460975901.post-11534308691690234582013-10-21T21:47:00.003-07:002013-10-21T21:47:31.771-07:00toy story...<div style="text-align: center;">
Leighton has a new thing where she throws all the DVD's out of the TV stand and picks interesting ones for her to watch in the car. She hands it to me and says this...and I say...do you want to watch this in the car now...and she shakes her head yes. She's brought me the Lorax (she was super into that cover), cloudy with a chance of meatballs, and toy story 3. She was so excited to discover her Jesse doll in her stuffed animal basket the other day (she ran over and showed me and yelled yeeeaahh) For some reason it just makes me happy to see her playing with it. I think the Toy Story movies are adorable and all my kids have had a "toy story faze". Leighton doesn't say as many words as my other kids did at this age, but she has the same interest she just communicates different but she get her point across.</div>
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