Some more old pics of Mickie and her sisters.

This is another old school portrait of Mickie Rose. 

The intensity of this picture always makes me 

laugh my ass off. She looks so fascinated. Lol. 

This picture is one of my favorites.

It's a Christmas picture of me and my sisters.

My sister Lili is just standing in the background laughing,

Mickie has escaped our grasps and is running towards the 

steps, and I'm dashing to grab her. :) Mickie, being the

rascal she is, is excited has hell to be free and running

around. Good thing she's got shorts on

under that dress. 

This is a picture taken on a class field trip Mickie went on

to a petting zoo. She loves animals. She has a dog name Chief. 

He's a yellow lab, I'll post some pics of him later.

This is Mickie in her wagon. She loves to ride around the 

neighborhood in it. She still has it. That's my twin Lili 

roller skating behind her. 

Mickie opening one present early!

In our family, we have a tradition of opening one present on

Christmas Eve. This is Mickie, of course wearing my 

sweatshirt, because my dad thinks it's okay for her to wear 

all my clothes lol. 

I think she likes opening her presents more than 

she ever actually likes the presents. 

This is a just a baby doll toy for Mickie Rose. 

She likes toys that make noise...I think that that's

just ironic. Of course, she likes annoying toys. :)

That doll was naked about a second after 

she got it out of the box. 

Mickie and her Momma.

Mickie and her Momma. Mickie Likes to rip up magazines.

She stares at the pictures then rips the pages out one by one. Lol. 

Mickie just got this rocker yesterday. She loves to just sit in it 

and rock. 

Old Pictures Of Mickie And Her Sisters.

This is of me and Mickie at a swim meet for Special Olympics.

Children with Angelman Syndrome have an obsession with water.

I taught Mickie how to swim a few summers back. The past couple 

years she has competed in the Special Olympics track and swim 

competitions. She took home first in her race in track and competed

admirably in the swim competition. This photo is from 2 years ago.

This is my twin sister Lili as Madeline, my little sister 

Mickie as Blue and me as Cat in the hat for halloween about 10 

years ago. 

Mickie must have been around 3 or 4 in this photo. Me and

Lili were 5 or 6. 

This is a school photo of Mickie when she was around 7.

We have plenty of school photos of her laughing and one 

of her sitting on the floor next to the photographer's stool

because she wouldn't stay on it, so he just took a photo of her 

next to it, lol. I'm going to look for that one. 

Pictures of the new bathroom and changes to Mickie's bed room.

This is the overview of the new bathroom. The door

is wide enough for a wheel chair to fit through. 

This is the new bathtub/shower. The bars are for Mickie

to hold on to when she gets out of the tub. She's fallen a couple

times trying to get out of them before. 

This is the new shower. Notice the nozzles

are much higher than usual. There is also a 

handheld shower thingy mcbob. I don't know what 

it's actually called lol but it's sweet as hell. 

We have to touchup the walls with some paint, but this is 

Mickie's room. Notice we now have a light switch both inside

and outside, that way we can shut off her light at night without

opening her door and disturbing her. 

This is the window in Mickie's room. Mickie likes to look out

windows. But, we were worried about her strength. She likes to 

bang on the windows so we had a layer of plexiglass installed 

in front of the window. 

Remember I said Mickie likes to bang on windows?

Notice the finger prints of her door window. Mickie

is obsessed with rhythm. She taps on things and even grabs

other peoples hands and makes them clap at a constant speed

for her own pleasure. Like the bathroom door, 

it's big enough for a wheelchair to fit through and has a shade installed so

 we can check on Mickie without disturbing her. 

Mickie Rose's Very Special Christmas...

A few years back my father finally decided to figure out just what it was the government could do for us concerning Mickie. Well, these last couple weeks we've really gotten a taste of just how good it can get. Mickie's physical therapist informed my father that Mickie enjoys being confined to her own space. All these years we thought she needed more space. Wow, where we wrong! We've had some construction done (I will be posting pictures) and the house is now a little more Mickie-proof. We had the workers install french doors in our front parlor, and moved all her furniture from the living room into that room. The doors are sound proof and the glass in reinforced so if she bangs on them she can't brake them. Also, we added a table, on which my dad screwed a bowl down to the top so that she can't pick it up and dump what snacks we put in it out. We got her a four foot wide bean bag chair and one of my mother's friends donated an old baby nursery style glider chair to us, which Mickie loves sitting and rocking in. Upstairs, we replaced her bedroom door with one with a window, the glass on it is plexiglass and between the sheets is a shade that you can move up and down to check on her. She used to chew on the hallway beams, so we had molding fixed to all the corners. The bathroom Mickie uses was completely redone. Now we have an extra deep bathtub with high up nozzle and knobs so that she can't reach them so easily, water jets, which she loves, and one of those shower attachments that you can pull down and use hand held. All of this was paid for by Mickie's goverment funding! She loves her new room. We keep one door open and put a gate in its place that she could easily move, since we just lean it. But she doesn't want to! In fact, when she wants to be alone, or gets annoyed by US! she just swings the door shut, then goes and lies on her bean bag or rocks in her chair. Hmph. If only we had that freedom. Lol. What a teenager!