A month of celebrations

Reyna has been busy accomplishing some very important developmental milestones. The first is she finally found those cute little toesies of hers.  Now that she discovered she has legs, feet and toes she just can't leave them alone.  In fact she has even started sucking on them when she is tired of her fingers.
She has also started really talking to us.  Now instead of noises, she is saying ma-ma-ma, da-da-da and ba-ba-ba.  We were very excited about this one because this is a very important predictor as to if her speech will be delayed.  From the looks of things she is right on track. 

Lastly her latest accomplishment is that she is now able to stand when we hold her up.  She immediately wants to stand when she pulls herself up holding your hand from laying to sitting.  Its funny that while our kids grow up we celebrate all these little accomplishments without looking at the bigger picture. 

Amongst all this development celebrating we had 2 more celebrations.  March 7th was the designated day to which thousands pledged to spread the word to end the word.  What word might you ask is that, its the R word.  Pedro and I made the pledge to remove that word from our vocabulary because it is such a derogatory word.  It has now been replaced by the word intellectual disability by us and the medical community.  We hope that some of our family and friends were among the thousands that pledged.  March 21st is another important day in the Garza household, its World Down Syndrome Awareness Day.  Its a day when people from all across the world come together to celebrate those special people on our lives with that extra 21st chromosome.  Omar and mommy even sported our 3:21NDSS shirts at Disneyland on March 20th since we were driving home on the 21st.  Even Tigger asked what the date on the shirt was for.  Daddy helped in the awareness by wearing his Step Up For Down Syndrome shirt with Reyna's beautiful face on it.

 Disneyland was wonderful this time of year, it was cold and rainy which made for very short lines on all the rides.  The most we waited was 30min for a ride.  We got on everything Omar and Reyna could which was all but most of the rides at California Adventure and the big rides at Disneyland.  On our last day though the sun came out and made for a perfect last day spent there.  Omar and Reyna loved it, they got lots of character autographs and pictures and saw the night shows and parades.

my sleeping beauty

infatuated with Mary Poppins

with her first minnie ears