HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY!

The birthday boy was excited to head for school today! He knows mommy is bringing cupcakes for treats! And he loves his cupcakes!!

I can't believe it's been 9 yrs! Seems like yesterday, seems like forever. We woke up 9 years ago, me with labor pains, hubby with fear I think, but the whole world was in front of us! Our baby boy would born that day. Boy were we unprepared for the ride we were about to take!!!

I can chuckle at those naive parents of 9 yrs ago. It wasn't funny back then though.... it was dramatic and traumatic and scary and unreal. We were thrown head first into the deep end of the pool, the pool of trisomy 21. We barely kept our heads above water..gasping for air...a life preserver....a floating door...anything.

Today we can breast stroke, back stroke and high dive with the best of them! Today we toss out the life preserver to those who are just starting to tread water...slowly bringing them to the shore. We can now be the lifeguards, watching over and protecting those still swimming....

I should have done a winter analogy huh? Since it's only 9 degrees and snowing today!!! LOL

Happy Birthday Little Man! We've come a long ways baby!!