Leprechaun Fun!

My girls are always so excited for St/ Patricks Day to see what kind of mischief the Leprechauns dish up. This year it started with Lucky Charms for breakfast with the first clue of the scavenger hunt.
Adrie left
this cute picture and note for the leprechauns
At the end they found the leprechaun hat filled with gold candy and a few prizes

The aftermath of the Leprechauns

Adrie had a fun filled day at preschool with a visit from the Leprechauns and a HUGE bag of goodies

 (including her own box of mac and cheese) She even got a phone call from Les the Leprechaun who apparantly was caught by grandma in her office at school!

Then we headed to Kyra's class to help

 with the festivities

Bree was enjoying getting into trouble every time I turned around and she very much

enjoys the attention the classmates give her!

Since it was early day we headed from

school to the park to enjoy the SUNSHINE with some friends! The girls needed new Pj's and I happened to find ones that all had green so I saved them for tonight. We took some self timer pictures of ourselves.

Bree has been in withdrawels because her music player was missing and she is in heaven now that we found it!

Perfect shirt for my "Baby B"......Bee Happy!!

Bree's New Kindred Spirit

Bree got to welcome Lyla to the world saturday. We went to Tysen's house to get some snuggle time with baby LylaBree giving Lyla kisses

She was so happy to hold her!

Kyra and Adrie were really excited too! When I told them that she was born with down syndrome like Bree, Kyra said "Oh good! That means she will love really good like Bree!" The girls have now decided we need another baby in our house...I agree but so far no luck!As if I wasn't baby hungry already...this made me even worse! I just wish they lived a little closer so we could see her everyday.

Lyla and her proud big sister Ava The day before they went home we spent some more time at the hospital with them. Apparantely, the genetisist that met with Tysen and Chris said that the chances of two siblings having children born with down syndrome is very rare....he estimated about 1 in 500,000 or more.

What are the chances......

That Bree would end up with a first cousin with down syndrome???

This is our new little precious niece Lyla Mae.....

born today to Kris's sister!

Tysen, Chris and Lyla

The picture above is Bree when she was born , below is Lyla......apparantly these two were buddies in heaven and had a plan to be together!!

I have cried tears of joy all day for this new addition to the family.....especially when I got the chance to hold her for a minute! How exciting for Bree to have Lyla to share lifes experiences with! I can't wait for Bree to get to meet her...we couldn't take the kids to the hospital so she will have to wait a few days.

I know it is a difficult,emotional roller coaster for Tysen and Chris right now, because we were there once too, but soon they will know of the incredible, unexplainable joy that is just around the corner!

Welcome to the world and to our family Lyla Mae!

A room full of....

ANGELS!

We got to go to a fun down syndrome play group last week and meet some of our blog friends in person. It was so fun to talk and share experiences! I hope we can do it again!

When we started getting ready for the picture Bree was so cute and took this cute little guys hand!

Thanks for putting it together Emily!

Bree's 1st Day of Preschool

Last week Bree started her public preschool. She is in a "typical" class with about 12-15 kids, 2 teachers, and usually another special ed teacher, and then she gets help from special ed aides both in class as well as therapy outside of class (speech, pysical, occupational, etc) I LOVE how inclusive it all is!! I was really nervous about this new phase and so far it has been fabulous for her! She just keeps loving it more and more.

Ready to head out the door for the 1st day of preschool

My two preschool goers...Adrie was so cute and excited for Bree and wanted their picture together.

I LOVE how Bree is looking up at her smiling!

Heading into the preschool.....she looks SOO little!

Bree and her cubby...each time they get to class they have to find their name tag and go put it on one of the cubbies...it has only been 3 days of her going to class and she has figured it out.
Checking out some of the kids....she was only a little hesitant at first and then she went right in and sat on the teachers lap in the middle of the floor. Since then she just goes running in and when I pick her up she is SO cute and excited and happy to try and tell me all about it! Every time we ask her if she likes school she yells "DAHHH(yeah)!!"
Proudly showing off her first masterpiece.

Yesterday when I picked her up the speech therapist was telling me how well she is doing and how they all just love her and she already knows them and blows them kisses when she sees them. It made me really happy to hear! It is hard not being able to really talk to Bree about what she did, so I try to ask the teachers when I pick her up about what they did so I can ask Bree about it. The speech therapist also told me about a cute little girl who took Bree under her wing the first day and held her hand and tried to help her stay in line (I imagine that was a difficult task) I was just happy to hear someone tried to be a friend to her....I hope she can make some cute little friends there.

I still can't believe she is hold enough to be doing this, but it makes it a lot easier knowing she is doing well and seeing how happy she is!