Gabi Helps Give her Baby Brother a Bath!

This morning, I asked Gabi if she wanted to help give her baby brother a bath, and she was quick to respond “Yes, a bath!” Well it wasn’t very long before she jumped in clothes and all to help out! (I was having trouble with the slide show so if it doesn’t show click here [...]

Delivering Cookies

Today, when I picked up Gabi from school, her teacher told me that they iced cookies for St. Patrick’s Day. The class was to deliver a cookie to each of the office staff. Gabi was to deliver to Ms. Kimmel (the Principal). Ms. Klink (Gabi’s teacher) said Gabi would poke her head around each corner [...]

Videos of Gabi

This video was taken last summer. Gabi was dancing, then stops thinking I am going to take a still picture of her, and says “Cheese!”
This one was taken about a week ago of Gabi and Jeremy playfighting. Jeremy has always been very careful with her. He knows he’s got 7 years and 100+ pounds on [...]

It’s been a sick house!

Jeremy and Gabi have both been sick. If taking care of their fevers and vomiting aren’t enough, I also have to worry about Preston getting sick, too. Being only 3 months old, I’m sure his immunities are not as much. I hope that a months worth of breastmilk did the trick. It’s really hard to [...]

New Blog For Gabi

After talking to another parent of a T21 boy who also has TOF like Gabi, I decided to build a new blog. Her son hasn’t had his surgery yet. I thought it would be helpful to create a blog that showed the process of her surgery for other parents who are about to experience that [...]

Funny thing happened yesterday

Up until last week, I never really tried to contact other parents like me (parents of children with Trisomy 21 also called T21). A few days ago, I contacted Nicole (Tarenne’s mom)who told me about a T21 Community message board which I quickly joined. Well, yesterday Ryan and I went to lunch and while we [...]

Meet My Gabi

Name: Gabriella Justine
Nickname: Gabi
Birthday: November 1, 1999
Mommy: Shannon
Daddy: Ryan
Siblings: Jeremy, Christopher, Anthony, Preston, Samantha and J.J.
Favorite TV shows: Sesame Street and Barney
Favorite Movie: Shrek 2
Favorite Foods: Spaghetti, pretzels, Goldfish crackers
Favorite drink: Lemonade
Favorite Songs: “I Want To Talk About Me” by Toby Keith, “We Are The Body” by Casting Crowns, “Fly Away” by FFH
Loves to: eat, [...]