It was an emotional, yet joyful month of July as Anna celebrated her golden birthday in quarantine turning five on July 5th. Around her birthday, I always flashback to the early part of my pregnancy when I found out about her diagnosis of Down Syndrome. Since, typically, it is unacceptable in my culture to knowingly […]
Quarantine Tales Continued
What have Anna and I been up to during quarantine? Besides therapy, we actually tried to make the best of our time. Although before, we were doing activities such as swimming, horseback riding, physical therapy, and occupational therapy; now, we have had to get creative at home. Besides all the home therapy I attempt whenever […]
Reminiscing on Better Times
Prior to the worsening of this Coronavirus in February, we were able to take our pre-planned trip to Europe. The children had a mid-winter break and we took advantage of it. We were so grateful to have been able to do that trip then given the circumstances now. We visited all over Spain: Barcelona, Madrid, and […]
New Year with New Improvments
Happy New Year! Since we moved from the East coast a few years ago and since my family is still living in the East Coast, we were able to celebrate an early New Year which was very nice! We watched as the ball dropped in New York Times Square as we counted down to 2020. […]
Halloween Festivities with Anna
Fall festivities! Prior to Halloween, we ended up going to the farm-picking out our pumpkin and painting them which Anna thoroughly enjoyed. We also went to a pumpkin patch with her school, where we picked out more pumpkins. I bought stickers to decorate those pumpkins at home-so much fun without as much mess! We certainly […]
A Day in the Life With Anna
I wanted to share with you a day in the life of Anna. She wakes me up about 6:30 every morning. We start our morning routine with what we call “reading time” and “chew, chew, chew”. The reading time is a plan that I use from Special Reads by Natalie Hale. It has been fantastic […]
Incorporating Therapy into Everyday Chores
“Cutie patootie, Cutie pie,” I say! This all gets met with a, “I’m NOT a cutie patootie, I’m Anna!” Oops! Sometimes I can’t help myself. She keeps me laughing a lot! She tells me, “You’re funny. I’m silly.” I’m thankful for her keeping me laughing because although I have a good sense of humor, I’m […]
A Blessing in Disguise
An angel! Truly, I feel like I’m living with an angel. However, I have to say, having a child with special needs-not easy! For some reason, these past 2 weeks, I really began feeling very overwhelmed. My husband recently got a promotion, which sounds great, but has ended up being more time away from […]
Back to Preschool we go!
Anna is back to preschool! Anna loves being in preschool! She is currently fully immersed in a typical preschool. So far, she is doing fantastic, except, I do believe she may be the only one still in a diaper. Anna was born with imperforate anus and was taken for surgery soon after birth. She […]
Anna’s Summer Fun
Anna had an awesome summer! She has been enjoying horseback riding and swimming. But, the highlight of our summer was our trip to Italy, we had an incredible time! Besides the Gondola ride, her favorite part was the water taxi in Venice -a speedboat to get back to the airport as we celebrated her […]