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Category Archives: Milestones

Happy 5th Birthday, Hope!

December 24, 2020by @HerOwnPace 2 Comments

Take a moment to enjoy the beauty of Hope’s fifth year, which has been our true blessing to witness. Happy 5th birthday, Hope!!

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Milestones, Moments

The Perspective Time Provides

November 12, 2019by @HerOwnPace Leave a comment

Whenever we meet families with older children who have Down syndrome, there is always one common thread among them—they’re calm.

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Milestones

Hope’s First Haircut

April 17, 2019by @HerOwnPace 2 Comments

Hope’s claim to fame has always been her hair. Waves hello and blown kisses, too, but since her days of newborn sweetness her hair has always been what’s drawn her the […]

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Milestones

Hope Started Preschool!

January 30, 2019by @HerOwnPace 6 Comments

Since before Hope could even hold her head up, I’ve dreaded her entering the public school system. I dreaded not being with her during her therapies. I dreaded handing off […]

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Milestones

Hope is not an Anti-Dentite!

October 30, 2018by @HerOwnPace Leave a comment

I’ve never felt like anyone else we know when it comes to Hope’s teeth. Hope was a year old when her first tooth broke through, and it took over 2 months to come all the way down; the pediatrician said to expect 2 to 4 weeks.

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Medical, Milestones

Mobility Is Only Ever a Blessing

May 31, 2018by @HerOwnPace 1 Comment

From what nearly every acquaintance had to say about it, learning to walk would be one of the greatest offenses our daughter would ever commit against her parents. Doesn’t this all sound so ludicrous? We thought so, too.

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Milestones

Get Up, Stand Up!

January 22, 2018by @HerOwnPace 1 Comment

One day when Hope was 23 months old, she just got it in her head that she could stand like anyone else and persisted until she was totally upright.

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Milestones

We Have a Crawler!!

October 24, 2017by @HerOwnPace 1 Comment

We want Hope to be motivated from a place within herself. Her reward for succeeding is self-confidence.

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Milestones

Benefactor or Victim of an Imperfect System’s Flawed Test?

August 23, 2017by @HerOwnPace 3 Comments

Why a DS diagnosis doesn’t automatically open doors to therapy is at least a thinly veiled prioritization of state funding that doesn’t value this vulnerable population.

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Information, Milestones, Thoughts

Commando Crawl: Mission, One Month

June 28, 2017by @HerOwnPace 3 Comments

Our little one has proved to us she’s not afraid to work, but she’s not willing to work for something she doesn’t feel is worth it.

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Milestones

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