The Good Life: Well Done Malakai!

About Us

Based in Pretoria, South Africa... My name is Loren, I am married to the LOVE of my life and on 08/08/08 we welcomed our first child into this world! Malakai is healthy, he is precious and he is the light of our lives... oh and he has a little something extra (commonly known as Down Syndrome).
On 29/01/2010 we had our second boy - Harlan. We are so excited that Malakai & Harlan will grow together as brothers and friends!
This is our journey into acceptance, love, the understanding that today is our greatest gift, and the celebration of our beautiful, perfect, amazing sons!

Blessed

Blessed are you who take the time to listen to difficult speech:
For you help us to know that if we persevere,
We can be understood.

Blessed are you who walk with us in public places,
And ignore the stares of strangers,
For in your companionship,
We find havens of peace.

Blessed are you who never bid us to "hurry up",
And more blessed are you
Who do not snatch tasks from our hands to do them for us,
For often we need time rather than help.

Blessed are you who stand beside us
As we enter new and untried ventures.
For our failures will be outweighed
By the times we surprise ourselves and you.

Blessed are you who ask for our help,
For our greatest need is to be needed.

Blessed are you when you assure us,
That the one thing that makes us individuals
Is not in our peculiar muscles,
Nor in our wounded nervous system,
Nor in our difficulties in learning,
Nor any exterior difference.
But is in our inner, personal, individual self
Which no affirmity can diminish or erase.

- Author Unknown

Monday, June 29, 2009

Well Done Malakai!

That dorky laughter at the end is me :)

14 comments:

Anonymous said...: Absolutely AWESOME!!!!!!! Like I said it was so lovely and exciting to see him crawl on friday! Wow - he is getting so big and oh so cute! God bless! Megs
P.S: All us moms have a dorky laugh when our kids make us proud!; June 29, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Laurie said...: YEAH Malakai!!! That's SO awesome!!

Excellent news about the magazine as well. : ); June 29, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Anonymous said...: Yay Malakai!! What a big boy!! Maddy has started crawling, but she does the crab crawl. We are hoping she will crawl the right way soon.; June 29, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Cathy said...: Yay! Awesome job Malakai!!!!!; June 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Sharon said...: Very exciting! He's adorable and looks so strong...crawling, getting himself into a sitting position and pulling to stand....Wow!; June 30, 2009 at 2:06 AM
My name is Sarah said...: Wow great job Malakai!!!; June 30, 2009 at 2:35 AM
The Sanchez Family said...: I LOVE it!; June 30, 2009 at 7:37 AM
Elriza Paul said...: WOW!!!!!!!; June 30, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Kelli said...: Great job, Malakai! What a strong little guy.; July 1, 2009 at 3:59 AM
Deqlan said...: aaaawwww how precious Loren! So proud of you Kai! youa re to gorgeous for words! God Bless and lots of love; July 1, 2009 at 12:57 PM
MaggieMae said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; July 1, 2009 at 1:30 PM
MaggieMae said...: (Sorry for the delete... typos)

What a great blog. I'm glad I found it (through Finnian's Journey). Congrats on Malakai's crawling. Seems he's off to a phenomenal start!!!; July 1, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Melissa said...: WTG Malakai!!!; July 3, 2009 at 5:12 AM
Signe said...: that is wonderful!! i love to see the determination..it will really pay off in so many ways. I'm also very "psyched" about the new magazine in your country. It reminds me that there are still so many opportunities for us all to shed some light on what life is like outside of the 'fast lane"; July 7, 2009 at 4:38 AM