Katie

This morning Sam and I were watching Sesame Street while I was on a conference call to work. They had a feature on a family that was expecting a new baby. They already had two children, a boy of about 7, and a little girl called Katie who I guess was 4 or 5. Katie was a beautiful little girl, extremely proud of the fact that she was going to be a big sister, and at the end of the piece she was clearly deeply in love with her baby brother. She was a child you can easily imagine any parent being proud of, me included. She also had Down’s Syndrome. As happy as I might imagine myself to be with Katie as another daughter, it made me realize how immeasurably blessed we are.