October 8-pictures for Down syndrome awareness month

Once Max went back to school after his tonsillectomy he came home with LOTS of cards from his friends...

Here he is reading through all his cards...

October 7-pictures for Down syndrome awareness month

Max after his tonsillectomy and new ear tubes. His oxygen dropped so much during sleep they had me stick the mask by his face every time he dosed off.

He is doing great from it by the way. The real test will be this winter to see if he still gets as sick as last winter.
Fingers crossed!

October 6-pictures for Down syndrome awareness month

We used to go to Gymboree every week. You make a name tag for you and your child while there. On Valentines day when Max was a little over 3 1/2 years old he made his own tag. I never practiced name writing with him, neither had school. He just saw it SO much, he knew what to do I guess. So here is the very first time Max ever wrote his name...
Here is a picture of him from that same day. Isn't he sweet. Notice the Down syndrome awareness pin he had to try on?!

October 5-pictures for Down syndrome awareness month

Max on his 3rd birthday....


Isn't he lovely!!
OK, another from his 3rd birthday but with clothes!! Max and Daddy...

October 4-pictures for Down syndrome awareness month

I love this picture of Max. He is so cute and innocent looking. He is about 26 months old. I just got a new camera and was trying it out. It was right before Sam was born. Him and Sam are exactly 26 months apart (so are Joe and Ike!)

His hair was so blond.

awards and such

LONG ago I was given some blog awards. I never posted them- Sorry!
But just so they get noticed- I will list the people who gave them to me....

Laura over at The Muncks Quiver
She has 9 kiddos! Yes, 9. 3 girls and 6 boys. She also home schools her kids and they own their own business. She is one busy lady but she still finds time to blog!

Some more awards were from Debbie over at Three Weddings
She lives very close to me but yet, I don't think we have ever met. I am sure we will at some point! We do go to the same Buddy Walk and all! She has 3 cute girls.

Another award came from Ecki over at Opposite Kids
She has 2 kids-both girls. She finds time to blog lots of interesting stuff and has really started to blog more and more here lately. She sounds very busy just keeping up with her 2 girls!

So although it is WAY over due- Thanks ladies for thinking of me!

October 3-pictures for Down syndrome awareness month

A picture of Max with his baby. I bought this before Sam was born so maybe he could get used to having a baby around. Here he is loving on his baby...

October 2-pictures for Down syndrome awareness month

I love this picture of Max. He is 15 months old here. He is playing with his "monkey toes" which is a characteristic of Down syndrome (well, the big gap anyway- not really called monkey toes!) Isn't he the cutest!?!!


This is a picture of Max way back when. (another way of saying- not sure when and I am not going to look!)






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birthday's and dates

I have 4 kids.
I have 2 (kids) August birthday's
I have 2 June birthday's
I have 2 29th birthday's
I have 2 23rd birthday's

Max and Sam are exactly 26 months apart
Joe and Ike are exactly 26 months apart
(Sam and Joe are roughly 22 months apart)

my kids ages are:
7
5
3
1 Years old

the birth years of my kids are:
07
05
03
01

Pretty cool, huh?!

Also- our kids all go by 3 letter names. All but Ike have a longer name that is shortened. Ike threw us for a loop being born a boy and all (he was supposed to be a girl and named Kimberly-Kim for short)

I obviously already knew the date thing with all my kids. Today I was making an appointment for the kids flu shots and the lady asked ages then birthday's. She caught on to the whole birthday dates but also noticed the years and ages were the same right now. I hadn't noticed that yet! Of course that will only be good for another 9 months!

6-29-01
8-29-03
6-23-05
8-23-07

Those are my kids b-days.

Down syndrome awareness month

October is Down syndrome awareness month. Lots of bloggers are doing the "31 for 21" post this month- meaning they plan on posting everyday of October. while I would love to post that much- I just don't think that will happen here!

To celebrate the month here is a picture of my sweetie Max....
Edited to add:
I will try to at least post a picture of my sweetie Max for Down syndrome awareness month every day.
The link for "31 for 21" is