Changed HA Battery

4/16/2013

Keri

Learning to walk

Murphy has been letting go and trying to walk since around Easter (3/31/13). He's been really trying for about a week. He was up to 5 steps a couple days ago. Yesterday, I stood up next to me and walked a couple steps to his activity cube. He's constantly standing up in the middle of the floor and just balancing. Then he tries to take a couple steps. He normally gets excited and drops down and crawls away. Any week now, he'll be walking!

Picture: 3/30/13

Faye's Hearing Aid

Today was Faelyn's appointment for her hearing aid fitting. On March 11, she had a consultation, where they made an ear mold and let her pick out the kind and color of her hearing aid, plus what color she wanted her ear piece to be. She chose a pink hearing aid with a clear ear piece that has pink glitter inside if it. It wasn't really the bed one for finding if it got lost... But that's what she really wanted!

Today, her hearing aid was in and we got a bag full of stuff to go with it, including a stuffed Otter named Otto, who has two hearing aids!

She was VERY excited to go this morning. She has been waiting for her hearing aid! We learned how to put it in, take it out, clean it, change the batteries, etc. They fine tuned it and got rid of most of the whistling. Now it only whistles when Faye touches it, which she wants to do a lot because she is enjoying being able to make it whistle. She was afraid it was going to fall out, so she was holding it a lot. Then she thought the wind would blow it away, so she was holding it. Now she's over that, it just sounds cool.

They did another hearing test on her. No significant changes. We had hoped there would be, after seeing the Chiro 3 times. She has profound hearing loss with low frequencies and moderate, up to the lower end of mild, the higher the frequency. The Dr put up a sound chart and her hearing was below all of the sounds, which means she cannot hear any of them.

She will have another hearing test later this month. That time, they'll test her hearing with the hearing aid. I'm sure they probably do it all in one day for older kids, but she was pretty burnt out by the end of her test. She did an amazing job the whole entire time.

Happy Birthday!

Preschools the best place to go on your birthday!

And that's exactly where I went on mine! It's a good thing to. It was a bad birthday. First crummy birthday I've had in years. But the 2.5 hours that I spent at school with Faye were wonderful!

Several of her friends got together with her to make me a birthday crown. Several of them made me birthday cards at the creative cupboard during choice time.

Crawling

Murphy is doing a real crawl these days. He's been doing it off and on for a couple weeks and just within the past couple days, he's deciding that its an OK form of transportation.

A sure fire way to get him to crawl, like daddy says, stick him naked on the carpet and there's no chance he'll be dragging his little body around!

Keri

Snow!

It dumped a pile of snow on us on Sunday and Faelyn decided she wanted to make a snowman on Monday evening. Maddox did not want to go out and Murphy and I stayed in so she built it all by herself.

She had me come out for a minute to lift the middle ball onto the bottom ball because it was too heavy for her. I came in and got a hat and put on at her request. Everything else she did on her own, with no direction or tips on how to carry it out.

You're in a hole.
You're there for years, stuck.
You are constantly trying to climb out,
but you're only making it wider and wider.
Pretty soon everything outside of your hole is out of reach.
Out of sight.
You're completely alone.

Updates

On Tuesday, Faye had appointments with audiology and the ENT. They determined that she has the maximum amount of conductive hearing loss and that her ear drum is floppy, but her inner ear, hearing organ, nerve is perfectly fine. They do not know why she has hearing loss so they wanted to start with a CT Scan and if that doesn't show anything, they'll want to do an exploratory surgery. I do not want her to have surgery, but if they find something with the CT Scan that can be fixed, they may need to do surgery anyways. If they do not find anything or it is something that cannot be fixed, she'll have a hearing aid in that ear. She had her CT Scan yesterday and we should get results back on Monday.

Murphy also had an appointment on Tuesday. His 6mo check up, at 7mo. We're a month off! He is perfect. At an 8-9mo level, developmentally. He got his DTaP and he is 17lbs 1oz and 28". Big little guy!

Maddox is currently at a sleepover! He attempted one about two weeks ago and lasted about 45min. This time it was a birthday party. I talked to his friends mom before hand and planned to play it by ear. They went to McD for dinner and back to his friends house for cake and to play. We told him he could call at anytime if he wanted to be picked up and it's 11pm and we haven't heard from him. It's probably safe to say he is spending the night!

Vegan Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies!

1 1/4 Cup Unbleached Flour
3/4 Cup Ground Rolled Oats (or instant or minute oats)
1 tsp Cream of Tartar & 1/2 tsp Baking Soda (or 2 tsp Baking Powder)
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2-1 Cup Enjoy Life vegan Mini Chocolate Chips

1/2 Cup Earth Balance vegan Butter (or any kind of oil)
1 Cup Raw Turbinado Sugar

1/4 Cup Water
1 tsp Vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix top dry ingredients.
Blend sugar and butter.
Add water and vanilla to sugar and butter.
Mix wet and dry together.

On two cookies sheets, form 1 inch dough balls. I like to press them down like patties, that way they spread out and look like flat cookies and now cookie hills.

Put both cookie sheets in oven for 6 minutes.

Switch racks (bottom sheet to top rack, top sheet to bottom rack) and bake 5 more minutes.