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I haven’t had a chance to blog about this, but last weekend I met another local family with a child that has albinism and we all went bowling (part of the NOAH bowl-a-thon.) We had a blast!

I love kids and so rarely get an opportunity to “hang with kids” these days. My godkids now live too far away for me to see them very often. I don’t volunteer as much with Adventure Fitness because of all my other duties. Yet, I’m one of the only single people I know with a stocked toy box, a doll house, kiddie chairs and tables, and sippy cups in my cabinet (left over from the days of regularly caring for my godkids.) I finally pitched the bottles. None of my godkids are into bottles anymore.

They were a completely delightful family. (And yes, before everyone with HPS asks, they’ve checked that out and their daughter does not have HPS.) I had a bit of a giggle though because they kept handing me the baby and the mom would say, “We really didn’t ask you to come bowling to baby sit.” She had no idea how totally thrilled I was to spend the afternoon playing with kids and holding a baby. Grin! They’re lucky they got Lyra back! Grin!

Lyra had strabismus surgery last Tuesday and her mom sent me her post surgery pictures. She looks great!

Lyra’s mom is keeping a blog about being the parent of a child with albinism. You can check it out at: http://parentofachildwithalbinism.blogspot.com/
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