{"id":17559,"date":"2021-07-30T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/?p=17559"},"modified":"2021-07-30T12:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T18:16:09","slug":"friendships-forged-through-down-syndrome-and-gigis-playhouse-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/friendships-forged-through-down-syndrome-and-gigis-playhouse-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendships Forged through Down Syndrome and GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis_Newborn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17564 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis_Newborn-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis_Newborn-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis_Newborn.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Davis and Theo were born three days apart, in the same hospital, served in the same NICU and coincidentally had the same pediatrician.\u00a0 In a wonderful gesture, the boy&#8217;s pediatrician connected their mothers to support one another in their Down syndrome journeys.\u00a0 This journey lead them to our sister Playhouse in Sugarland and subsequently lead to the desire and success of opening GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Houston.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis-Wild-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17565 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis-Wild-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis-Wild-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis-Wild-3.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Theo and Davis are best buds.\u00a0 Confidants.\u00a0 Family.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis_School.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17560 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis_School-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis_School-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/files\/2021\/07\/Theo-and-Davis_School.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a>It is only appropriate on &#8220;International Friendship Day&#8221; that we highlight these two brave silly boys whose friendship fostered the opening of our Playhouse and has grown within our Playhouse walls.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers to all of our Playhouse pals, and the friendships forged through the adversity and beautiful successes of our Down syndrome community.<\/p>\n<p>#BeGenerous\u00a0 #BeAccepting\u00a0 #BeKind<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Davis and Theo were born three days apart, in the same hospital, served in the same NICU and coincidentally had the same pediatrician.\u00a0 In a wonderful gesture, the boy&#8217;s pediatrician connected their mothers to support one another in their Down syndrome journeys.\u00a0 This journey lead them to our sister Playhouse in Sugarland and subsequently lead&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/houston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}