I'v been pretty behind on my blogging... and posting on fb makes me feel like I'm still sort of in touch with the world, justifying my lack of blogging. But it doesn't. :)
So I'm finally posting about the birthdays of my two little girls: Miss Mabry Ruth and sweet Abby Grace.
Miss Mabry turned 1 last month and had a sweet little party. She's still as bald as could be and so much chunkier than my other babies were at her age, making her look so much younger than 1 to me. Nonetheless its been 12 whole months (13 now) since that precious girl came into the world knocking all our socks off. Who knew what a flirty little show stopper she'd be?! And as every mother ritually says at each of her childrens birthdays, I can't believe its been a year. :) Truly. And with crawling at 6 months and walking at 10, I can't wait to see what feats this little go getter accomplishes in this next year. (Currently she's perfecting a new tantrum, getting positioning tips from her big sister Abby.) ;)
And speaking of Abby...
Abby Grace turns a big 4 years old... today!!! She had a great day at preschool with all her little buddies and hopefully we'll be celebrating with family in the next couple of days. We're saving a great big party for her 5th next year. :) For Abby its more shocking to me that's its *only* been a year since her last birthday, oddly enough. It feels like forever ago that I was driving her into franklin 3 days a week for therapy at NHC. It feels like so much longer than a year that she's been in preschool in Spring Hill. She's thriving and doing so well.
Her big annual IEP meeting is on Friday and I can't wait to hear how her teachers feel she's doing. After her last testing they told me that her general cognition scored so high that if she were even 1 point higher that she would fall within a "typical" range and wouldn't qualify for services! While I'm thrilled she did that well! How does a child with Down Syndrome not qualify for special education? Crazy! Its one of those things where part of me wants her to do her best and show them all how smart and mature any child with DS can be... but on the other hand *sort* of hoping she doesn't score as high so that she can continue to get the therapies that will continue to burst her ahead and give her every advantage. I know that theese are the things that go through the mind of every mom of a child with special needs. (Sigh) We'll see what happens.
So happy birthday to both of my big-little girls. :) You both blow me away and I'm completely proud to pieces of BOTH of you. :)
I so know what you mean when you talk about Abby Grace and how smart she is. That is awesome that she is doing so well. My brother was unable to get Medicaid Waiver Services because his IQ was 2 points too high. Those in the middle usually don't qualify for services, and they still need them because they can't function totally independently.
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