The day began with Agnes explaining, to a jealous older brother, the reason why we had a box full of t-shirts bearing Noah's Step Up for Down Syndrome team name and did not have an equally large box containing shirts displaying the name of a team with Andrew in the title. Agnes explained that Noah gets a team because we are going to a party that celebrates Noah and people like him that have Down Syndrome. Andrew listened, paused for a moment and then proclaimed loudly that it wasn't fair and he wanted to have Down Syndrome also so that he could have a team. We tried to tell him that it is something you're born with, but he would hear none of it because he was too angry at the injustice of it all. Later, as we arrived at the event bathed in generous amounts of sunshine and moderate temps, Andrew's hurt feelings were assuaged with hot dogs, ice cream sandwiches and bouncy houses.
We, of course, had loads of family and friends out to support Noah. We had promised everyone that Noah would be walking with his team this year. As per usual, he had other plans and was only happy while being pulled around in his wagon.
Although the day began with Andrew being jealous that the attention was focused on Noah, he seemed to find plenty to do.
Hopefully next year Noah will have a better attitude and ditch the wagon.
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