Noah's Dad

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• Your description of this interview had me laughing before I even watched it. Isn't it amazing where the last year has taken your family? Bet you never would have imagined a year ago you would be doing interviews on television. :) Great Job Smith Family. Thanks for helping bring positive attention and understanding to our sweet little bundles of joy!

• Thank you! We hope it helps the world keep learning more about Down syndrome, and that we could help to take away some of the misinformation out there.

  :)

• That's awesome! I love how you brought in the people first language at the end there. I bounced into the living room afterward to tell my husband that that had come up on your facebook page and I was part of that conversation!

  Those ear pieces looked tricky! I wonder if that's a big deal for kids who wear hearing aids.

• Ha,ha....thanks.

  I let the "psychological help" statement slide..... :)

• Yeah, I caught that "psychological help" thing, too. But when you only have 3 minutes of airtime.... Gosh, there are a lot of people who need psychological help in our world, but I bet only a very small percentage of them are people with Down Syndrome. It seems to be the more "typical" people who aren't happy with the way things are in their lives.

  Still, the anchor seemed like a compassionate--if uninformed--guy.

  I was loving Noah's little wiggly presence, and his half-off sock. People here have quit commenting about my son's lack of socks. He just will not keep them on! Drives the old ladies at church nuts.

• Yall are adorable. I have a question that I want to ask you but I am going to email it. Is that ok?

• Sure thing. http://noahsdad.com/contact/

• Loved it! All three of you look great. :-)

• Thanks so much! Those ear pieces are tricky. :)

• You have done exceedingly well here guys.

• I loved watching this because it makes you all seem more like "real" people instead of just faces and videos on a blog. I also found it amusing that you were educating the anchor about the person-first language. As an educator, we're constantly fighting with this issue, especially with people that are clueless about the reasoning behind it. Unfortunately, in professional journalism, it is allowable to say "Down's Syndrome Children" rather than a child with Down's Syndrome. I can't remember what the reference book is called for publication language but we have it somewhere in the house. It just makes it that much more difficult to educate others.

• Renee, do you mean the AP Stylebook?

  Great job, once again Smith Family. I'm so enjoying all of your interviews (and of course, the blog). I have friends in the "typical" community sending me stories about your blog practically on a daily basis. Great to see the word getting out there! I'm proud to have a fellow Metroplex family representing our community so well!

  Jennifer (mom to Sophie, 6, in Plano)

• That might be it. Or something similar to that...my husband has a Bachelors in journalism so we've gone rounds about this because my Bachelors is in education (and I'm working on another one in special education).

• Oh, you guys did great!! I had tears in my eyes thinking of the hopeful future of my little guy. Thank you for working so hard to spread the word that our kids deserve all the opportunities typically developing kids have.

  Also, I honestly don't think that most people understand how many babies w/DS are aborted. You could see the shock on the reporter's face and hear it in his voice. Hopefully, this will help make people think and start to change some false beliefs.

• Rick, Abbie, Noah- So proud. May your tribe increase and may your platform for the gospel of Jesus Christ increase through baby Noah, who indeed bears the image of God.

• Great job!! The more people see our kids, the better! Praise to God for this wonderful exposure to the world! :D

• love you guys- great job as always! proud to be your friends.