One of the wonderful things about having children is that the seemingly mundane is made exciting. Take birthdays for example. Once you get past 21 you only really celebrate the ones that have a zero at the end. Children however are so excited with the concept of birthdays that they count them in halves. Andrew got to attend the whole number birthday party of one of his class mates at Little Gym. This place is pretty entertaining. It has all the apparatuses you expect to see at the London Olympics wrapped in multiple layer of protective padding. Brody Bear was also our guest for the weekend, so he accompanied Andrew to the party.
Another event that we, as adults, take for granted is cooking. I would go so far as to consider meal preparation a chore. But not Andrew and Noah. No, they think cooking is such a big deal that they were ecstatic to receive a kid sized kitchen designed and built by my mother. It only cost us a trip to Memphis Pizza Cafe.
We closed out our weekend doing what has become a Sunday tradition...making whole wheat tortillas. Although they are a little more work, they only contain four ingredients and we can pronounce all of them.
Of course we ended the weekend pleasantly exhausted.
I just happened upon your blog, and I think it is wonderful! My older brother has Down Syndrome and we grew up in Memphis (now living in TX). He went to Madonna Learning Center (on Poplar between MUS and Germantown), have you looked into this for Noah?
ReplyDeleteSince Noah is just turning 2 he is still part of the Tennessee Early Intervention Program up until his 3rd birthday. I think MLC is for ages 5-18 and it is certainly one of the places we are looking at for the future. We have heard many good things.
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