Utah sister singing to brother with down syndrome

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A couple of videos online by a Utah family are getting national attention and unintentionally bringing awareness to down syndrome. The videos are of the Gray family from Heber singing a song near and dear to their hearts.

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"It’s really awesome how he’s connected to music," It's now a daily routine for 2-year-old Bo and his big sister Lydia Jones to sing "You are my Sunshine." Lydia plays the guitar and sings, Bo will help sing along, "I love seeing him smile, I could watch that every single day, it makes me always happy," she said. The song has a history for the Heber clan. When those dark times came upon the family, "He was tied to oxygen and he had heart monitors and I would hold him right in this front room and I would practice that song over and over," Bo's mom Amanda Gray said. Complications from heart surgery, Bo ended up in the hospital in an induced coma, they used music to talk to him, "His hands start to move and his foot started to move and we saw it as parents bringing him comfort as he recognized, immediately he recognized that those are our voices." she said.

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