I like to play with toys and bubbles with my baby brother. It’s fun to take him to the doctors because I get stickers! I think he wants to be a doctor or a race car driver when he grows up.

When Silas came home he was super tiny. When my parents took him in the house I had the thought of them just taking his carseat inside to make room in the car.

Thirty minutes after his birth, the doctor walked in and gently explained that there were features of Down syndrome present. While watching my wife react calmly with solid understanding, ready for what she was hearing, my vision was fading into a tunnel. All I could see was the next 30 years of my baseline of a life…

Nine years ago when I stepped into my role as a dance mom I never thought it would be the very thing to bring me comfort and peace amidst the chaos and fear of being separated from my baby as he was sent to the NICU shortly after being born…

(THE SILAS SERIES 1/5)

Name: Silas

Age: 9 months

Hobbies: Popping Bubbles, giving hugs, drinking milk, sleeping, mimicking my sisters and pulling their hair

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