Joshua is loving gymnastics. I am loving watching him do it! Every week, his strength and flexibility improve. His coach, Coach Denise, is FABULOUS. I love that she is so sweet, loving, encouraging, and fully expects Joshua to understand her and to JUST DO IT! It’s pretty awesome to watch them work together!

How do you dress a sqirmy boy?

SHOW HIM WHO’S BOSS!!!

Hehehe…such a typical thing for us, we do it automatically. Just throw a leg over him and keep on going. Caylee’s expression in this just cracks me up, it’s so Caylee, and I can just hear her “I don’t think so Mr.!” and he’s thinking “Who me? I didn’t do anything!”!

My baby boy is 5 today!!

I am feeling very, very blessed and grateful tonight. My Joshua is 5 years old today. I thought that since most of you have never seen a picture of Josh when he was a baby, I would post this one. His foster dad, Terry, sent this to me, and I just treasure it!! I never got to see Joshua this little, as he was 18 months old when I met him and brought him home. He is just as beautiful as a baby as he is now…those eyes, that smile!!! He just melts my heart COMPLETELY! He is such a huge blessing to us, I thank God for him every day, but have especially been refecting on it today, that his birthmom was giving birth to our baby boy 5 years ago today. WOW!!!! God is AWESOME!

My furry friend…

I love to play the piano!!

My dog, Happy, loves to hang out with me when I do.

Today, I was so excited over the music I playing I kept blowing lots of raspberries. My good friend would help me out by cleaning up my chin for me, a good lick and my spit bubble beard is all gone.

Now that is a true friend.

Lookin’ cool!

My Sissy shared her hat and sunglasses with me, and they look pretty cool on me; if I do say so myself! Haha!

It’s been ages since Mama updated my blog! More to come soon…

An angel has left us…

In honor of Ashley Wiliams:

I know that we will one day meet her in heaven, and that she is there now with a new heavenly body that can do whatever she wants it to do, she is now free from the restriction of her 15th chromosome deletion. Ashley may now run, jump, do cartwheels, sing songs, talk to loved ones who have gone before her, who have now met her at the gates of heaven, and I am sure that she still has her life-affirming, infectious giggle that all of our angels have!

Ashley’s firstgiving page, Our Alabama Angel with her picture, please think of donating to her page in honor of her and her family.

Here is a quote about Ashley, taken from her firstgiving page, it was written by her mom, Alicia:

If you are viewing this page you have somehow been introduced to our world of Ashley and Angelman Syndrome. If you have ever met our Ashley she has surely captured your heart or hair in some way (((smile))).

Here is a quote from a beautiful letter Erin, Maggie’s mom, wrote to Ashley:

You left a legacy of smiles and love; there is no finer legacy to leave.

We will smile as we think of you and your sweet, joyful smile. We will miss you terribly and our hearts will ache with pain for your family who had to give you up so soon. But we will think of you running free, leaving only a wild giggle in your wake.

A song by Celine Dion, called Fly was posted by Darren Humphries after losing his angel, Elijah, and it’s so beautiful and I thought it should be shared again, to honor Ashley, Elijah and all the other angels we have lost to this world:

Fly, fly little wing
Fly beyond imagining
The softest cloud, the whitest dove
Upon the wind of heaven’s love
Past the planets and the stars
Leave this lonely world of ours
Escape the sorrow and the pain
And fly again

Fly, fly precious one
Your endless journey has begun
Take your gentle happiness
Far too beautiful for this
Cross over to the other shore
There is peace forevermore
But hold this mem’ry bittersweet
Until we meet

Fly, fly do not fear
Don’t waste a breath,
don’t shed a tear
Your heart is pure, your soul is free
Be on your way, don’t wait for me
Above the universe you’ll climb
On beyond the hands of time
The moon will rise, the sun will set
But I won’t forget

Fly, fly little wing
Fly where only angels sing
Fly away, the time is right
Go now, find the light

Emma’s mom made a beatiful video with a song for Ashley, visit and watch: Angels in the corner; in honor of Ashley.

Please keep Ashley’s family in your prayers!

My new faux-hawk…

Mama says I am “Oh, so handsome!”, and my cousins and Sissy think I look waay cool. I can’t believe Mama let them cut my hair so short, she is always talking about my “sweet baby curls”. Kinda embarrassing isn’t it? I am trying to talk her into getting the blue hair gel for my faux-hawk, that would be awesome!

Remember…drool is COOL! (but snot it not)

Hot tub heaven…

Now this is the life! Ahh…

Making thank you cards…

Today Mama let me make thank you cards for all of our friends and family who have donated to my Angelman Walk-a-Thon. So if you donated to us, you are going to be given one of these one of a kind masterpieces by me! Thank you all who have, it means SO much to us! If you haven’t and you’d like to, click in the right sidebar on “Firstgiving: Sponsor Me” and you can join in the movement to help all angels everywhere! Hooray!

I LOVED the cold squishy paint on my hands, it was wonderful!! I hope that everyone likes my art, I had a great time creating it!! I learned the picture communication card for paint today too! I am definitely going to be using that one more often! Watch for my future masterpieces.

Hugs to all!

A sad day for the Angelman Community…

A blog post from Mama:

Yesterday it was announced that Dr. Joseph Wagstaff was found dead in state park, apparently from a fall. Here is the article: “Charlotte doctor dies in fall” .

Charlotte doctor dies in fall
By JOE DEPRIEST, The Charlotte Observer

CHARLOTTE – Two climbers found the body of a Charlotte man at the base of a 70-foot cliff in Crowders Mountain State Park Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Joseph Wagstaff, 52, apparently fell to his death, according to Gastonia police.

Gastonia police Sgt. Dean Conner said there was no evidence of foul play, and that Wagstaff was wearing street clothes and had no climbing gear.

Park Superintendent Larry Hyde said Wagstaff was found about 11 a.m. on the eastern face of the mountain at the Linwood Road park entrance. Hyde said he apparently died sometime after the park opened at 8 a.m. because his car, which was found in the Linwood access lot, wasn’t there last night when Hyde closed the park. Hyde said he hadn’t talked to anyone who had seen Wagstaff on the trail.

Wagstaff was a licensed pediatrician. Family members could not be reached Tuesday night, but Dr. Frank Grass, a co-worker, said Wagstaff was an internationally known genetics expert who focused on Angelman syndrome, a genetic developmental disorder.

“He was one of the top researchers in the field,” Grass said. “He was great to work with. He was very knowledgeable. … The families that he worked for were devoted to him, and he was devoted to them.”

Hyde said this is the first fatality in the past two years he’s been at the park. Six people died on the cliffs between 1986 and 1997.

We never had the opportunity to meet Dr. Wagstaff, but many, many of our friends in the Angelman Community did and they all speak of what a caring and compassionate man he was and how he had a passion for his research and patients with Angelman Syndrome.

It is now even more important to raise the funds needed for research now that we have lost this man who gave so tirelessly to our cause.

Please keep Dr.Wagstaff’s immediate family and his Angelman family,in your thoughts and prayers.