10 feet tall....

On Monday we took Griffin to his appointment at The Down Syndrome Clinic at Texas Children's Hospital. He has an appointment with them every 6 months. Well this Mama was very anxious because sometimes I don't handle evaluations of him well. They tend to discourage me. SO knowing that we had to wake at 530 AM naturally I couldn't sleep.

And to my surprise and with much delight, I can say that the appointment was soooo encouraging. The doctor who evaluated him was so positive. Instead of pulling out these developmental charts and graphs that put Griffin in all these levels of development she focused on pointing out what he WAS doing and what skills she saw emerging very soon. Saying that she thinks he is doing great. So it seems like to her that if the child is developing, meaning he is developing more skills than he had 6 months ago, that the rate at which he develops is of lesser importance to her and I am telling you NOT many people I have encountered on this journey have presented it in this way. She also said, which I think all the time, that she sees in him through his eyes that everything is all there in his head, he just has a harder time figuring out how to get his body to do what his brain wants it to. So YAY to The Down Syndrome Clinic for being so positive and encouraging and loving, YAY to this Momma for having a different frame of mind going into it, and YAY to little Griffin and his fabulous development!

So for the rest of the day I just felt like 10 feet tall or something! Even though I was exhausted, I just didn't feel it. But in the afternoon all 3 of us took I think a 3 hour nap together in our bed:) The picture is of mine and Griffin's sleepy eyes at the end of our beautifully long day.