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Adoption Update

Just wanted to remind you about our adoption blog. We received some exciting news! ;)

Where to Begin

I've been such a bad blogger! A lot has happened over the last couple of months, probably too much to try to blog about. I'll just try to hit a few of the main things in the next couple of the posts.

Bebo had surgery on September 1st. He received his 1st cochlear implant. It will be activated on September 1st which is next week. We are excited and nervous all at once. Many of you know we were not going to do the cochlear but things have come up and felt that it was a MUST for him.

His recovery has gone well. He had pain probably the first couple days but the pain meds took care of that. He is back to himself and full of spunk. Here is a picture of his surgery site just two days after.They used surgical glue instead of stitches and the site looks much better today.

He will receive his processor on September 1st and his ear will be "born" that day. Meaning he will start hearing just like a newborn would. He will have to learn how to hear. He will have to take his processore off when he goes down any slides, trampolines or plays with balloons. Otherwise he could damage it.

I'll post his progress with his CI when they turn it on. :)

Teeth

Or the lack there of! It seems that for awhile Spitfire and Bebo where neck and neck with teeth falling out. Bebo had lost two before he had come to be a part of our family. As soon as Spitfire had loose teeth it seemed Bebo's teeth started to wiggle. He lost a bottom tooth and she lost her two front bottom teeth. He then lost a front tooth. A few months went by and no one lost any teeth. Bebo lost his "odd" shaped tooth right after Christams and I'm waiting to see how it is going to grow back. Now they are back to "competing" again! LOL Spitfire lost her first front tooth a couple weeks ago and it has changed her little smile so much. Both have other teeth that are ready to come out. They are keeping count how many each have lost.

Twink's teeth are nowhere near ready to come out. She will come to me wiggling when she sees the other kids doing it to their teeth.

Speech Progress!

It's been awhile since I've blogged about anything especially about the progress with the children. I'll start with Twink for today. She has made some amazing improvement in the last few months that has shocked everyone. When were were told she would never talk we didn't want to believe it. I knew it was a possibility and the longer she struggled the more I started to believe maybe it was true. I'm not sure I'm going to say this how I actually feel it but I hope it comes out right. I'm not good with words at times.

One always wants what is best for their child and will expect them to try to do their best. That is all we want Twink to do. If her best was to make sounds and point, then so be it. We were still going to push her with speech therapy but she was always trying. That is the only thing we can ask of any of our children, their best. The hope was there that she would talk but reality was always knocking at my door. You could feel the frustration level from her when she could not get her point across. I guess what I'm trying to say is don't expect more from your child when they physically can't, meet them where they are.

Today it is different. Our girl can talk and 90% of the time we can understand what she is saying. Not only that she is using ASL with her brother. She still requires speech therapy four times a week but we have come so far!

Introducing...

Our new little guy!! :)

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