Over the last couple of weeks, we have had several instances where someone will be looking right at Cobee and ask us where our baby with Down syndrome is. My brother got married a couple of weeks ago and one of the bride's maids, whom we have never met before, took Cobee to hold him and once she held him close to her, she was hooked. She held him for over an hour before someone else was able to pry him away from her. Later that night, she asked my brother, "I thought you said you had a baby nephew with Down syndrome. Where was he?" She was shocked at first when my brother told her that he was the baby that she had been holding all night. Then she said, "He was such an angel! I knew that there was something special about that baby. I should have put two and two together." It is so hard to look to the future and know what Cobee will be like. (For the most part). I find comfort in knowing that he is so normal right now, that in 6 years from now, it will still be normal. And in 20 years from now, it will still be normal. That is the only way that I can see it right now.
