10 tigers

This morning when I picked claire up from wee worship I asked her what she learned about.  She told me she learned about 10 tigers that had ouchies and that jesus made them feel better.  But, only one of then said thank you.  Now, I'm no bible scholar, but I don't remember anything about jesus healing tigers.  So I asked claire about it and she said, not tigers mommy, leopards.  Then it hit me, she learned about 10 lepers that were healed by jesus!  The amazing thing is that she understood the message even if she was mistaken on the species with the ouchies.

Hearing aids

 Today was a big day for Kelson.  He got his hearing aids!  We've been working toward this for a few months now and we were all pretty excited to get them.  Claire and I talked about it this morning and she wondered if they will hurt him and what tool will we use on them.  She also asked at dinner tonight if she had hearing aids when she was a baby. 

We headed to ECHO for our 8:30 appointment.  We spent time working with Miss Jean, the audiologist, learning how to care for the aids, change the batteries and about how sophisticated the aids are.  In our goody box we even got a childrens book about an elephant who has hearing aids. It sounds like Daddy & Claire are reading it right now. 

Kelson's aids are set to hear everything but an adult aid can be changed depending on the sound situation you are in.  Well, his can to, but they aren't.  He needs to learn speach and you can't rule anything out that might help him learn his speach.  It's a pretty technological little tool.  We will work with the audiologist and therapists on a regular basis to get them set to just the right settings for him. 

Kelson is only wearing his aids for short amounts of time right now.  He had them on for around 20 minutes this morning and then we put them in for a couple of hours tonight.  The didn't seem to bother him at all tonight.  We noticed quite a bit of feedback in his left ear but we'll work on that.  In a few days we will teach the sitter all the tricks and he can wear them during the day too. 

We're not confident that he is hearing more but my first thought is that yes, he is hearing more clearly now.  He has been smiling when he has them in, doesn't mess with them, and turns toward us when we are talking to him.  Only time will tell, but this was a big step toward conquering this auditory nueropathy. 

First Day of Preschool - a bit outdated

I made this shortly after Claire started pre-school and I still can't figure out how to print it, but at least I figured out how to share it on here!

 

January 13th update...in random order

 

I've got tons of pictures to upload but can't get blogger to let me do it.  Looks like the cell phone camera wins out again. 

 

I'll start by giving you a brief rundown of what's been going on since Thanksgiving and then tomorrow (hopefully) I'll have another Kelson exclusive for all of you!  We have had lots of appointments but tomorrow is a big one. 

 

Kelson loves being naked!  He's been that way a lot lately since he has a tendency to choke on his food or have a coughing fit and spit up ALL OVER!

Early last week Trever was gone before the kids got up and headed to Peoria to take his last big test.  Claire sent this picture to wish daddy good luck!  Now, he's one step closer to helping you invest your money!

We've had a few struggles with eating baby food, but the kid LOVES ice cream!  

Claire's idea of a fun mommy daughter date is getting groceries.  Thank goodness for the free horse at meijer!  That's all she needs as a reward for being a good shopper!

Our whole house has been sick since Thanksgiving.  I took this picture because Kelson was finally starting to feel better.  He's still got one heck of a cough, but SO much better!

On Christmas Day Kelson turned 8 months old.  He's babbling, rolling back and forth, reaching for toys, likes to play peek-a-boo and sooooo big and get up 2-3 times a night to eat and primarily snuggle.  

December 28th is a special day around here since there are 2 birthdays.  Mom & Trever share a birthday but Claire didn't think it was fair to share a cake so we had two different desserts!

We also had our first trip to Immediate Care the weekend before Christmas.  Claire had a little pink eye going on and after a LONG wait we finally got some drops so we could start celebrating!

Claire likes to watch the letter game with me.  One night she walked up to the tv and started touching the letters.  She was "helping that lady out" and pretending to be Vanna.

Kelson licking his first beater.

Kelson keeps a close eye on his sister.  Sometimes his eyes light up when she walks in to the room and sometimes he cringes.  

An attempt at a Christmas card picture.