My Special Visitor

One of my Mom's best friends, Janet, came over with her son, Cody. Cody was born with Down's Syndrome and has very limited verbal abilities. I don't usually go up to strangers when they first come in my house, especially teenagers.

However, Cody came in the door and quietly sat down on the floor. I came up to him and allowed him to actually pet me! Janet loved it and said I must had sensed that Cody was special. He had the biggest smile on his face when I allowed him to pet me and then played with him with one of my new toys. Mom says I helped to make his day!

Hello Cody, What do you have in your hand? Is that one of my new toys?

Let's play with my fev-ver butt mouse.

Ok, Cody, if you want to pet me, you can!

Note from Mom: I asked permission from Janet to post the pictures of Praline with Cody. She said she would love it. I have known Cody since he was born almost 17 years ago and he always calls me Paula Girlfriend. I didn't know how Praline would react to Cody because she doesn't generally like male teenagers, but she was wonderful with him! Of course, she was also the stereotypical, aloof Persian/Himmie that she is and lost interest after a few minutes (just like she does with me!)