yes, I figured it was Angelman's, just like the little girl I'd described. She was most definately Elfish! The translucent, hypopigmented skin, the light hair and eyes, the general shape of the face, and most of all, that eeriely beautiful, otherworldly smile and the sudden bursts of laughter that could come out of nowhere; as if her mind had been romping through meadows and forests in her elven home, where suddenly something so wonderful had happened that she wanted to tell us earthdwellers all about it, but there were really no words to describe it, so she put it all into her smile. I doubt this is making any sense, but that is how I felt everytime I interacted with her, and I couldn't help but smile back. She understood much of what was said to her, even if she couldn't answer back verbally, and like your D7 she had many forms of non-verbal communication.
I loved working with each and everyone of those children, even the boy with Lesch-Nyhan's Syndrome - a malady that usually leads to autoaggression, but in his case was channeled into a tendency of looking around innocently, but then suddenly slapping people in the face as soon as they lowered their guard. Especially people with glasses only approached him at their peril. *grin*
You both seem like extraordinary parents to both your D's, and I'm sure there's a reason God chose you two as parents for D7. He simply knew you'd be wonderful to her (and vice versa). A really big GO YOU!!!!
