My little school girl
I just love this little outfit. Ella seems SO big in it, reminds me of a little school girl : ) I title this little series of pics "the path to a meltdown," ha ha. This is how pretty much every little photo session goes with Miss Drama Queen. Perhaps I take too many pictures, but how can I help it? She is far too cute : )

Fall 2009 Part 1
Last year was our first fall in Spokane, and I loved the leaves changing colors... (after living in Texas for the past 4 years I hadn't seen a whole lot of Autumn, and of course growing up in Alaska not too much there either) anyhow, I took a lot of pictures of the kids in the leaves. I liked those pics so much that we went back and took more this year. I love seeing how much the kids have changed in a year, although a bit bittersweet. These pics were taken 1 year and 4 days apart.

Halloween pics
Here are some pics of the kiddos from Halloween, Hunter and Ella were so good and let me take some pics before we headed to a party, do you see anything hilariously inappropriate????

Blessed....
I have been reading the new book Gifts 2 (stories of how Down syndrome has touched people's lives) and my emotions are all over the place. Reading these stories, especially written by mother's of children with Ds, just makes me sob. Part of it is how these stories take me right back to day 1 with Ella, all the pain, sorrow, fear and anger that I felt when they told me they thought my baby had Down syndrome. The why me? The what will our lives be like now? What about Hunter? And the wishing that I could fast forward and my life go back to "normal." Part of it, a lot of it, is the guilt for feelin

Posting from my mom's house...
I forgot to post before we came over to my mom's for the night (on night's that Chris works and I work the next morning we stay with my mom because there is an overlap between when Chris gets off in the morning and I have to leave for work. Plus she keeps Ella in the morning and then takes her to preschool at 12:45, thank God mom lives here or there is no way I could work!!!) Anyhow I looked in my mom's picture folder to see if there were any Ella pictures I don't have and low and behold I found some that she took on Ella's next to last day at the Guild School! So, here they are....