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Did you know that Pablo can stack a building without any help! I didn’t either and I got to find out all this information when I decided to witness Pablo’s therapy session. It started one summer afternoon where you know you have nothing to do, but this morning I wanted to do watch Pablo’s whole session and to find out what Pablo is really capable of.  This really helped me understand what Mamá and his therapist Lyndsey do to help him; normally I am just the girl who changes his movies and takes him to the bathroom.  After watching his therapy lesson I’ve really been wanting to do all of these exercises with Pablo…

Meanwhile…

A lot of very exciting stuff has happened this summer.  For example, he caught a ball and threw it directly at me on purpose (which he never does).  We made a tower together taking turns  J .  The most exciting thing for me was when we were at the beach and he was in the arms of Mamá and, as much as he loves Mamá, he leaped into my arms and held really tight (I almost couldn’t breathe).  For Mamá, Papá and grandma (Coco), the most exciting thing was when he finally said COCO!!!!!  It started the day that grandma visited and one of the first things she said was “Pablo, can you say CO- CO?“ and she basically said it until he finally got the point and at dinnertime when they asked the question many times and well, you know what happened…

With all of this amazing stuff happening in his life I really think that Pablo will be a bigger part of my life now.

The Cyber Birthday

Hey guys! Sorry I haven’t posted in a while but now I can tell you all about Pablo’s modern day birthday bash!

It started out when my mom got the idea for a tiny little birthday party in Pablo’s classroom. It was going to be simple. We prepared gift bags and bought tiny cupcakes; and we were planning for singing Happy Birthday. Mom had the intention of excusing me from the classroom and singing HB with mom and Pablo’s teacher…but it went horribly wrong!  The office wouldn’t excuse me from class, she was not allowed to light a candle, the teacher preferred to put the gift bags in the kids backpacks at the end of the day, half of the kids didn’t pay attention (including Pablo), and they almost didn’t sing HB. I also had prepared a packet with little notes and portraits from my friends and I to Pablo (even if they didn’t know him) so I was pretty disappointed.

Since the birthday party was a disaster we decided to have a little birthday moment right before dinner. When we called our family members to have a piece of the moment, we were getting calls to put on speaker so they can at least hear what was happening  on our phones, Skype on our computers and “facetime” on my IPAD. Since we wanted all of the family members to have that experience we had to do it twice!! JJ But it was an amazing CYBER BIRTHDAY! Since only some of his classmates ate cupcakes, obviously I had to take a little nibble. Grandma got all emotional and when we finished the HB mom and dad both gave Pablo a high five and Pablo put both of his hands up to high five mama and papa… honestly a pretty cute moment! After we sang HB we just ate our dinner and laughed at that very emotional moment.

Pablo was smiling, relatives were singing, basically just an awesome time…

Freaky Friday: Fabiola & Pablo Edition

While my dad and I were driving to Publix, I stumbled upon a thought about what would happen if Pablo and I switched brains for three days. I thought this would be really cool for Pablo (ME) because what if I forget that I am Pablo and ask my mom for some fruit snacks? MY MOM WOULD FREAK OUT and would cancel all the therapies that he has now and by the end of the three days they would have to schedule them back in. (And think of how to explain this =0)...

But what about me (Pablo)?  I would be in big trouble!  Pablo would have no idea what I had to do in school and would get me really bad grades; imagine my teacher writing a note to my mom about how weirdly I have acted in school… I can’t even imagine what would happen at night time.  How could I climb onto my bed? And mom normally expects me to take a shower by myself... UH OH !!!!

What would happen after those 3 days? My dad had a theory… he thinks that when our brains get switched back that a little piece of us would stay.  For example, me, I might have a clue to finding out how to help Pablo better and Pablo could know how awesome his sister is... just kidding!  He might have found out a way of talking (lets keep our fingers crossed)... but scientists haven’t found a way of doing that yet, so don’t expect Pablo climbing onto my loft any time soon.  =)