Archie – the smile

We know that development is going to be slower with Archie than we are used to with the others, so we are looking forward to those big moments more than usual, I suppose.  In anything we have read that seems to be a recurring theme – the celebration of milestones that perhaps are taken more for granted with children who do not have a diagnosis of one sort or another.

Anyway, for a little while now Archie has been giving us smiles – not full on, easy ones, but there is a glint in his eyes and you can see his expression change.  The first smile he did properly was for Dr. Cronin at the Child Development unit in Poole.  Not a bad person to smile for!  He’s still developing the smile, but since he was born I have been looking forward to this hugely because it is the first interaction we can have with him and it is a step towards Archie becoming a personality in his own right, as opposed to being a label of a syndrome.  We haven’t got a full smile on camera yet, but you can see that he’s having a go in this photo…

You should see his expression when I told him the punchline...


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Aware that through his life we are going to come across moments that seem like important markers, I have created a category called ‘Milestones’.  For those of you who are here for the same reasons that I had when I first started to look at blogs about children with Down Syndrome, I hope this category will give you a window into those moments as they happen to us.  Just click on the link in the right hand sidebar.

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