3-21

Well... I know this post is a day late, but I couldn't get our picture to upload yesterday, so here it is a day late! For World Down syndrome Awareness Day, we dressed in yellow and blue for church! I'm sure some people that didn't know what was going on probably thought we were a little crazy, but it was fun!

World Down syndrome Awareness Day is on the 21st day of the 3rd month, just like Gage has 3 copies of his 21st chromosome. Really, I just look at it as another day to celebrate what a blessed life we have because we have Gage in it! Hope you all had a great day!

Major Fevers...

We've got some major fevers going on around here at our place...

... and the only cure is SPRING!

Oh Boy!

Gage's new way of getting around...



If the video isn't working, try moving the little cursor on the bottom over to the right a little bit. For some reason it won't just start playing like normal for me... and sorry about the low quality, I took the video from my phone!

He took his first steps on Saturday (while I was out of town, of course!) Luckily, his daddy got to see him. He got up to 3 steps Saturday, 5 steps yesterday, and now it's like that is all he wants to do! He definitely isn't ready for just walking everywhere, but he sure thinks it is pretty cool!

So excited!

I'm so proud of my little guy. I probably gave him a heart-attack because I got so excited!
Gage has been doing really well with standing independently in the middle of the floor, but has always done this by us standing him up and then letting him go. Tonight, we were playing with his "bat" a.k.a. wooden spoon, and ball. I had the ball hanging and he was standing and hitting it to make it fly. Then, at one point, he was sitting down and I told him "stand up!" and HE DID! I got so excited that he just stood there and stared at me instead of hitting the ball :)