Routines: Finley ~ Goin to the Chapel & Bethany~ Scooby-Dooby-Doo

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Some kids count down with excitement 

for Birthdays and Christmas-

Bethany excitedly counts down and celebrates 

everything!

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~Bethany’s “short” list of things to celebrate~

Finley & Cohen time

Amy and Spencer days

Birthdays

Sibling Dates

 Sonic dates,

Subway dates

Movie Night

Family nights

Church Days, FOG (Followers of God Bible Club) nights

Dazzlers (the  Christian dance group she’s in)

Play dates with friends

and the BIG STAGE (our annual May Dazzlers Dance Recital) 

Everyone and Everything is fair game to get excited about, look forward to and CELEBRATE!

A year older, she hasn’t talked about getting BRADOS (bravos ) this year. (Click here if you want to read about Big Stage Brados from last year) BUT she has asked if I’ve gotten her flowers yet and wondered how many people will bring her flowers. lol  I explained I can’t get her flowers to the day of the recital so the flowers will be fresh- and she’s ok with that- as long as she gets them!

Finley, Amy, & Bethany- Competition Day

As excited as she is about the everyone coming to see her perform and the lights, the stage, the costumes, the performance, the applause- oh, and let’s not forget the flowers :),

I’m as excited as she is because it means she has grown and learned, memorized and accomplished more than I ever dared dream when I first heard the diagnosis “downs syndrome.”

Celebrate:

It’s hard to do when our hearts and minds are consumed with “weighty matters.”  Maybe that’s why Jesus said, we’re to become like little children.  They have a simple, pure understanding of life.  Blowing dandelions, watching clouds float by, jumping on a trampoline with joyful abandon, chasing bunnies, collecting rocks, and swinging are simple celebrations of life.  Perhaps this is part of what Jesus meant when He said, “I have come that you might have LIFE and have it MORE ABUNDANTLY!”  John 10:10

Before the Big Stage happens, I thought I’d share this video clip from their January statewide competition.  I kinda get excited and loud on this video LOL- I guess I need to have someone else video tape for me so you don’t hear me whoop! Bethany is in the back row-back left corner-

Surprising Treasure: Celebrate before Him in the dance and with timbrel and with singing!