A year old!!

I know... I have done an awful job of keeping up this blog.

That has been a criticism some of us "special needs moms" hear sometimes; everyone stops blogging as kids get older.  THEN, new parents assume it is because life is awful and terrible and unbearable and there is NOTHING but SUFFERING and MISERY to write about.

Ha.

The REAL story?  We are so busy leading a normal life that I just can't manage to find time to sit and blog. 

Owen is 1!!!

So, here we are.  Owen is a year old!  What?!  Yes. I can hardly believe it myself.

He started crawling the weekend of his birthday and now he is cruising everyone.  The squirt pulls up on everything and loves to get into anything he can.  (pretty typical, huh?!)  You can also see how much he "loved" his first birthday party!

Milestones (kind of a dirty word to me these days) have been met and Down syndrome doesn't seem to be as big a deal in our lives as I initially thought it would be.  In fact, one of the kids said one day, "Most of the time I forget Owen even has Down syndrome!"  Words that melt this mom's heart!