p e n g u i n d e v i l

Well, I didn’t manage a post yesterday. I know that isn’t the first day this month, but I surely cannot miss two in a row! As for the standard excuses: work, baby, not enough sleep, working on redesigning the blog… That’s all true. Also, as people may have guessed, I just don’t have enough to say or watch enough movies these days to make a post everyday.

But as this is my “not quite 31 for 21” post, I thought I would address the whole project. Yes, the origin of the post everyday was about Down Syndrome awareness and I imagined that I would occasionally post things I had learned this month about DS. Well, that didn’t happen. I’m not particularly knowledgeable about it. My mother has spent most of the last 25 years working in residential care facilities, and I know that she has worked with people with Down’s but me? All I know I have learned from Unringing the Bell, where this all came from!

So one thing that I can say is that this month I did finally get to meet cute little Georgia. I do certainly have some impressions of her that would be my only first hand experiences with DS. Admittedly, she is a baby, and I don’t know anything about the effects of Down’s as one ages, but I got to say that Georgia is great. I realize that she has had serious and quite overwhelmingly substantial health issues, but by the time that I met her, she really just seems like a regular baby. She’s older than ours, is bigger (just a bit) and seems well along developmentally (holding her own bottle and everything!) and she makes all sorts of cute faces!

I don’t want this post to seem too naive or pointless, but I wanted to say that, in recognition of DS Awareness, the person I know who has DS is just plain great! She is an awesome baby and I look forward to knowing her as she grows up. And, in the process, learning all the more about living with Down Syndrome.