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The Ramirezes at Walt Disney

Friends, enjoy this video thank you to the generous people who sent our family, along with the Mitchells, to Walt Disney World. We had an amazing time.

Update On (virtually) Everything

I see that our last post to the blog was April 5! That's criminal of us, but the good news is, Elijah has been doing really GREAT. He's been attending two schools each week, along with six therapy appointments outside of school. Best of all, he spends almost every evening playing with the neighborhood kids. They come to see Sophia, and when they drag her to their houses, Eli asks if he can go play, too. Either I or his nurse brings him to the friend's yard. It's to Sophia's eternal credit that she goes out of her way to include Eli, and so do the other kids. It's all girls, except for a kid named Nathan up the hill. Recently, Elijah saw Nathan playing in a blow-up pool, and Eli asked to put on his swimsuit and get in the water, which we allowed him to do. A swimming pool is a great equalizer; Nathan had no problem at all finding things to do with Eli that were within his range of abilities. Even better, after they finished swimming, Nathan assumed that Eli shoul