Mabel Molanphy

Was lis­ten­ing to music on my com­put­er and stum­bled across this audio record­ing of Mabel try­ing to under­stand thun­der for the first time. The con­ver­sa­tion quick­ly evolved to cook­ies (as all con­ver­sa­tions worth hav­ing should). I love hav­ing these con­ver­sa­tions with her – they’re so reveal­ing of how she thinks and con­nects things in her mind. 

(Record­ed on Nov. 2012)

Mabel’s bee had an “owie” today, so the only log­i­cal thing to do is to car­ry it like a baby and then ride on it again. 

Mabel has a won­der­ful sense of style…or some­thing. It’s real­ly fun to watch her pick out her out­fit for the day. Her is today’s pick. 

Her ‘base­ball’ shoes are my favorite

As you may or may not know, Mabel had a small pro­ce­dure at the hos­pi­tal that required her to be put under gen­er­al anes­the­sia. For­tu­nate­ly every­thing turned out extreme­ly well, includ­ing this video of her walk­ing around the hos­pi­tal telling every­one she saw on the halls (includ­ing the full-size poster of a man wav­ing) that she was head­ed to the restau­rant (hos­pi­tal cafe­te­ria). Mind you, this is only about an hour after wak­ing up from her anesthesia.

(The bag is full of gloves, syringes, face masks, and pret­ty much any­thing else the nurs­es could find for her). 

PS> Thank you for your thoughts and prayers through­out the day. As you can see, she’d doing great. 

Sit­ting at the table, eat­ing her “last meal” of Pop­si­cles, apple juice gelatin and agua de coco (before her surgery), she announces “Rem­brandt was a good painter!” As I stared blankly at her, think­ing there’s no way she just said that…she repeats her­self, adding“remember? At the muse­um!” Of course I do. Except that it was five months ago. How does she do that??