Meeting up with some special friends

The day after Thanksgiving, we visitied the science center downtown and had the wonderful pleasure of being able to meet Debbie , Binny and their lovely family. Debbie and I both belong to an online message board for families who have been blessed with a child with DownSyndrome. It was an incredible treat for Michael and I to be able to spend some time with these wonderful friends.


Binny and Michael....Buddies!

Thank you to Binny's big sister, Shira, for standing behind me getting these two fellas to

smile.

The ball pit which Michael would still be in if he had his wish.

Happy Thanksgiving

We are thankful for being able to share this Thanksgiving with our dear family and friends. Twenty eight people sat down to dinner. It was wonderful!

HAPPY 19th, ANNA!

We'll celebrate when we see you next week. For now, here's a little birthday love for ya.

Jen turns 25!

Bernadette and John enjoying the fall leaves

Happy Birthday Jennifer!

John's football award ceremony

Mary and Bernadette being silly

Colleen and Michael on one of her recent weekends home

Some Fall Pics

Trick or Treat! Michael heading to school as Pooh and with Daddy before Trick or Treating

The 3 mimes. Hard to see those white faces...Clare, Bernadette and best friend Mary Therese

John the businessman

Pete the Tootsie Roll. Of course the costume was designed and made by Pete himself.

This picture isn't good, but they were so cute having an after school snack together (on a very sunny day ! )

Happy 8th birthday John

Michael adoring one of his many big sisters (Mary aka "Moweeeeee")

Trying on someone's new hat

Bowling for John's birthday

Our annual trip to the pumpking farm with the Upside of Downs

Our Buddy Walk

It was a great day for our Buddy Walk. It was held at Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians. This was the first year that we had a Sherman volunteer. Peter did an awesome job painting little faces (and even some big ones). It was a wet morning but by the time we arrived the rain was stopping. The only disappointment was that because of the wet ground, we weren't allowed to walk our lap on the field. We walked in the concourse and around the block instead. As always, we were cheered on and high fived (Michael's most favorite part!) all along the one mile walk. Unfortunately Colleen, Dan, Anna and Mary couldn't be at the walk with us today but the rest of us had a great time.