Guest Blogger: Lilli Smith

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Lilli here, Shel's sister and guest blogger. I went to Dallas last weekend to “take care” of Shel, but she didn’t need it! She is really doing great! It’s really pretty amazing how well she can get around in a little over a month. She’s not doing any marathons yet, but is off the cane in the house and she seems to handle the stairs very well – even carrying Stephen! At first I was a little worried as she woke up continuously vomiting for a couple hours on Saturday morning due to what she suspected was some old narcotics, but by lunch it was out of her system and she was up for going out for Tex Mex that night with our cousins. Her physical theraphy exercises seem to be helping and she says that she still sees pretty drastic daily improvements in her mobility.

Stephen is still a total little charmer with a smile that just melts me. I mentioned something about kisses and all of a sudden I had little tiny fish lips on my cheek. According to Shel and Sean, it was a kiss! He’s missing the smacking follow through, but he’s still the sweetest little kisser ever! Stephen just loves to read books and he’s developing a longer and longer attention span – in fact he likes to read the same books over and over and over. Besides reading, we had lots of conversations about “da”. Apparently “da” is everywhere in Dallas! And it means so much – cat, dog, duck, dad and garbage truck to name a few! He is quite expressive and excited with his “da!”s. He’s a boy after my own heart always wanting to be outside and we had some quality park time in the warm Texas sunshine. I left early Monday morning to go back to cold rainy Boston --it was a short trip, but hopefully somewhat helpful. I’m so happy that you’re on the mend Shel!