The actor, who welcomed Max with ex-wife Lauren Lambert in 1997, tells PEOPLE how decorating the Christmas tree “works like a well-oiled machine” in his house
As Nat King Cole sings in “The Christmas Song,” Christmas everyone from ages 1 to 92 deserves a merry Christmas. Actor John C. McGinley makes sure that includes his son 27-year-old son Max, who has Down syndrome , by adapting classic holiday traditions.
“My wife, I don’t know how she does it, but she strings about 4,000 miniature lights, the electric ones, around the tree, and then the rest of the family is invited to put the ornaments up. It works like a well-oiled machine,” McGinley, 65, tells PEOPLE of his wife Nichole.
“My son Max was born with Down syndrome, so we have ornaments that can’t break. If a hook doesn’t take and it drops, no big deal.”…