We Can Tell You How to Get, How to Get to Sesame Street...

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Remember me?  The bad blogger?  The BUSY blogger?  I'm still here!  And so's Ellie! 

These have been a couple of jam-packed weeks for us.  We're trying to tick things off the "Things I Want To Do While In Florida" list, and with only about a week left, we've got to be diligent (ie: crazy)!

Ellie, of course, continues to thrive in her Monday-Friday therapy/conductive education routine.  She's working on her strength and stamina, especially with solo cane-standing.  Learning how to walk with canes is a very difficult process (as I'm sure I've mentioned before), but every (literal) step means that Ellie is one inch closer to the goal.  We're so proud of her!

Last weekend, we cashed in Ellie's birthday gift from Southern Grandpa and Grandma and headed down to Tampa.  We took Ellie to Busch Gardens because they have a "Sesame Street Land" on property.  Ellie loves her some furry monsters!  She had a "sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away"... (In fact, maybe her experience was a bit *too* sunny...we could have used some clouds to break up the 95-degree day!)

Ellie wanted to walk EVERYWHERE!  We made her drink a LOT of water, cuz it was HOT!





Lovin' all the rides...



Daddy taught Ellie how to REALLY ride the "roller coaster"!





Ellie definitely wanted to keep her distance from the "in real life" characters...silly goose.



Best part of the day: SHOPPING in the (air conditioned!) Sesame Street Store!



Showing off her new cup.  Her therapists have been working with on getting her to use "big girl" cups and she's doing really well with it.  So, this cup goes with us to therapy every day now!



During the song-and-dance show, Elmo asked the audience to "laugh like a hyena" .  Apparently, Ellie knew what that meant!