This year's World Down Syndrome Day falls on a Thursday. This means my princess will be at school! For her heart day I cut a bunch of hearts out of construction paper and donated them to her classroom for their craft of the day. This year's WDSD theme is "Lots of socks" so I decided to cut out a bunch of construction paper socks!

Raven's class had a blast decorating them!!

Thanks for visiting! I hope you liked our WDSD craft and celebration!! Celebrate with us next year and every year on MARCH 21 (3/21). *This date is significant because 1 of the three forms of Down syndrome is Trisomy 21 (the other 2 are mosaic & translocation). March because it is the 3rd month (TRIsomy- meaning 3 copies) and the 21st because there are 3 copies of our children's 21st chromosome. People without Down syndrome only have 2 copies of all 23 chromosomes -1 from Mom & 1 from Dad giving them a total of 23x2=46. Raven and other children with Trisomy 21 have 47 chromosomes.

SPEECH HERO

Seriously how cute is this?? Made this Wednesday for Daughter's private speech therapist. She is leaving the clinic to pursue another avenue of speech therapy-working with elderly patients. She has made such a huge impact on my daughter's speech, confidence, and overall being. Raven is so excited every Tuesday and Wednesday to go to speech. Courtnea will truly be missed. She is a SPEECH HERO <3

*I had this on another blog, but I am condensing them into one. I apologize if you already saw this.