FUNNY STORY:

AT 4, SOPHIE LOVES RIDES ON MOM’S LAP IN THE WHEELCHAIR, FEED MOM, READ TO MOM, HAVE MOM KISS OWIES & PLAY KITCHEN W/MOM. SO SHE’S W/MOM A LOT, & SEEING HER TRACHE SCAR IS NOT NEW, YET IN DEC. 2006, SHE ANNOUNCED, ‘I CAN SEE YOUR STROKE HOLE!’

I NOW HAVE A LIST I MUST COMPLETE DAILY. READ W/HER IS ON THAT LIST. & BOY, CAN SHE TALK’AT ALMOST 9 PM WE READ LAST NIGHT – BUT I DIDN’T GET 2 BED UNTIL 9:50!

BTW, THE KIDS HAVE STARTED OCCASIONALLY HELPING W/SWIM THERAPY. THE 1st TIME, MARK INTRODUCED ‘STAND-UP HUGS’ W/ME. 2DAY, ZACH REQUESTED A ‘STAND-UP HUGS’ W/ME. THIS COMES AS NO SURPRISE. MARK & ZACH R OLDER. THEY REMEMBER THE PAST & ENJOY ANY MEMORY OF IT. I JUST CRY. THE GIRLS ENJOY IT 2, BUT 2 A DIFFERENT DEGREE. A WHILE AGO, I LAUGHED & CHOKED BAD ON FOOD. MARK KNOWS THIS STIMULATES MY VOCALS. AFTER HE KNEW I WASN’T DYING, HE DIRECTED ME 2 SAY EVERY1’S NAMES, Z & J ARE SOME I CANNOT DO, BUT I MANAGED A SLOPPY VERSION OF EVERY1’S NAME (ASK ME NOW, & I COULDN’T DO IT) ZACH WAS DELIGHTED. SO WAS MARK. THE GIRLS WERE TERRIFIED AT 1st, I WAS DYING. I WASN’T EXCITED. IT DIDN’T SOUND GREAT 2 ME, & AM I SUPPOSED 2 CHOKE MYSELF EVERYTIME I WANT 2 TALK?