Category: Anna’s Advancements

At home life with Anna has been quite interesting. It’s been a bit difficult because of course, she has no clue why we can’t go outside anymore. She has no clue why we haven’t been going to her therapies, her horseback riding, swimming, to the park, and her favorite- restaurants. Frequently she asks, “where am […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]