Vote For Solana for Cover of Parents Magazine!

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vote please! Currently Solana is in second place! She would be the first child with Down syndrome to make it on the cover of Parents Magazine and she is a cuuuutie! Liora (and I reformatted the below message so the links hopefully stay intact)Forwarded with permissionI am writing to you in hopes of reaching a far greater population that I can from my home computer in Pearland, Texas.My husband and and I have been blessed with two beautiful girls. Soledad is almost 5 and Solana is 2 1/2. When Solana was born and we were told she had Down syndrome our lives were turned upside down. Through our faith in God and the support of friends, family and various organizations, we quickly realized how one extra chromosome made Solana and all children with Down syndrome extra special!A couple of weeks ago we entered Solana into the

Parents Magazine Cover Contest. Between friends and family, co-workers and complete strangers around the world, she won the first round. Next week, starting July 7 and ending July 14th, everyone will have one last opportunity to vote (before it goes to the Editors at Parents) for the child that they would like to see on the cover. If she were to win the contest, she would be the first known child with Down syndrome to grace the cover of the magazine. However, this is much more than a magazine contest. It is about giving the 5.8 million people in the world that have Down syndrome a voice.Our goal is to have at least one vote from each of the 50 states and one vote from 30 different countries (during round 1 we had 18 countries voting)! I would love to know that not only you, but your friends, family, state and local agencies and partners/members have joined forces with us in voting for Solana and getting the word out via email, Facebook, websites

and/or blogs so that we can finally give Parents Magazine a new face and let the world know that Princesses can have Down syndrome too!You can only vote once a day, per technology (iphone, ipad, cell phone, laptop, desktop, blackberry etc) so vote everyday!!! Here is the link:Here is the link to vote:<http://www.parents.com/app/voting/index.jsp?id=/templatedata/parents/voting/data/1269982405784.xml & mediaItemID=/sharemy/06062010/20837085>By educating one person at a time we have an opportunity to educate one community, one county, one state and one country at a time. Everyone is looking for a way to make a difference. Lets give them one!Watch this video to "meet" Solana:<

the Event on Facebook too!<http://www.facebook.com/?sk=events#!/event.php?eid=137362816276529>With much

love,Andy, Sasha, Soledad and Solana