Wednesday Special Needs/Disability Blog Hop: Say Cheese!

Happy Wednesday!  After a week of blissful slacking absence while at the beach last week and missing Meriah's Blog Hop, I'm back this week, and grateful that my hopelessly procrastinating brain and I don't have to think too hard for this one.  Fresh off yesterday's weighty topic of internet drama, I'm ready to add some cheese to my w(h)ine.  This week's Hop theme is "Say Cheese," providing fun pictures showing our connection to disability.  Easy peasy!!! 

While my connection to disability is not readily apparent in the pics below, my daughter is my connection, and my daughter should definitely be a movie star.  To be honest, Samantha actually has absolutely no clue what a movie star actually is, but I think she does get the concept of glitz and glamour and feeling beautiful.  That's not to say she ever doesn't feel beautiful, but when she does that little extra something, she's very proud, and ready to pass it along to the world to see. 

Thanks to Heather and Zoey's sweet, sweet gift they sent a few months ago, the book, Birdie's Big Girl Shoes, where Birdie put her mother's fancy, schmancy, big-heeled, pointy-toed shoes on, and struts around feeling just like a movie star, Samantha gets it.  While we were at the beach, we bought her a new pair of sunglasses, something she's been needing for some time now.  I gasped when I put them on her, and said, Sammi!  You look just like a... and she filled in the blank with, Movie Star!!

Yep, she gets it. 

The best part about these sunglasses, other than the fact that they match most of her clothes?  Well, with the aversion of her eyes when posing for the camera as of late, you can't tell if she's looking at the camera directly or not with her eyes covered!  Looks like she's looking right at'tcha, huh? 

I'll take it. 

Plenty of cheese here.