Livin' These Days

We have been extremely busy with the JMCC Preschool planning. It really does feel like an all encompassing project. For me it is mostly emotional. I spend days thinking strategy, nights messaging other parents and staff from the JMCC and moments in between trying to blog about recent media happenings. The Windsor community has been taking this risk of closure very seriously and have become involved in doing a great deal of raising awareness. 

I feel like our little TEAM of parents and JMCC staff (and a few more) are all kind of growing together as a family. We laugh, we cry, we yell (ok - I YELL) but they listen and seem to love me anyway. Nobody will ever say that I am not a passionate person - EVER! I am so proud to stand with this team and be a part of something that is so much bigger than providing childcare services. What it offers is a community of support. It offers parents a family to be a part of. Where people relate to one another. Where children, yes even children without special needs, are given the opportunities they need to grow.

Even through the road is long and the journey is emotionally exhausting - I feel so very blessed to have been asked to stand and represent this cause. 

On the home front:

This is Nola ALL THE TIME. Hazel thinks it's hilarious. Ok, so do I. 

Anything that even remotely represents pants and this is where they end up...

This girl is the much needed comic relief around here. Doing everything and anything to make us smile and laugh. I think the funniest thing about her is that she doesn't do it on purpose. It's her natural thought process. Like how can she be the naughtiest little girl around? Or how can she push her little body to the absolute limit of what it is capable of? What new dance moves has she come up with? Which new songs does she suddenly know a lot of the words to (currently "Let It Go")? How much faster can she run? How much more can she make her running look like Phoebe Buffet? What is the actual smallest box she can fit her whole body into?

They play together, they copy each other, they laugh together, they fight often, they take each others toys, they eat together, they hit each other. Having a child with Down syndrome definitely has some extra little things that go along with it but mostly its like having any other child who does all the same things other children do. 

I know these pics are blurry but I had to share. Nola's face!!!!!

If they could only realize that if they did this all day everyday, I would give them whatever they wanted.

Here is how she actually felt about her very first piggy tails. Another edition of #assholeparent

Hoping this post finds you all well. We are going to enjoy the beautiful sunshine every chance we get.