"If you dont mind me asking..."

      One activity our family enjoys is swimming. One day we decided to go swimming. The minute we walked in there was this little girl with reddish blonde hair that walked right in front of Mike and I as we were walking to lay down our towels. As we got to the area to lay down our stuff I said quietly to Mike. Did you see that little girl? He gave me this look like "SO?" and I said she has down syndrome. Again I got another look and he said "You don't know that, What if she doesn't?" I gave him an I'm certain kinda look. Dylan ran  in the water there were tons of kids in the pool but he started playing with the little girl.
       Mike was still not convinced but I knew. As we were watching Dylan and this girl this lady looked right at us. I figured she was probably her mom. Through time the lady was watching Mason then shortly she came over to me and said "How old is this little guy." I told her he was 14 months old today. I asked how old her little girl was and I pointed at the little girl playing with Dylan. (she had 6 kids with her total.) She said "My little downs girl? shes 8" As we were talking I said "Shes to precious I have been watching her only because this little guy was also born with Downs." She nodded as if she already knew. As I continued to talk to this lady who was much older then I was she continued to share her story. She told me her daughter Rose Elizabeth is her step daughter, her real mother abandoned her.
       I figured because she was 7 years older then Mason she probably had far more experiences with doctors, therapist, and the down syndrome community period, but that wasn't the case. She said Rose Elizabeth started therapy just 2 years ago and had never had any kinds of therapy before. So her step mom told me she is far behind on alot of spectrum's that she does several therapies a week. With her sharing her story of course I shared Masons story also.
       It was rather refreshing talking to someone whose days are a lot like mine and she was from this area as well.  She was asking me several questions about who we work with, who I like, suggestions and so on. I was pleased I had lots of information to share with her. She also had some information about the Denver childrens hospital I've been curious about bc they have people who specialize with children with downs.
      As we were talking I was watching Rose Elizabeth. She was running around in the water, pushing her older brother under the water, giggling, splashing Dylan. I wish I could say people weren't staring at Rose but it was very clear they were. I of course was watching her out of complete curiosity. What is Mason going to be like? Right now he is very shy, is he going to be running around interacting with the other kids like Rose when he is older? Watching her she put a smile on my face she was to sweet and Dylan loved her and invited her to our house.I enjoyed talking to this lady, she was very kind and understanding. Hopefully we will meet again. :)