Our Poem to Beth...

To Mikeys wonderful speech therapist...

We put this in a scrapbook with some pictures for her as tomorrow is her last day coming to our house.
Hopefully, he will get to continue to work with her some in the office. But she has been coming to our home since Mike was 4 months old.

I'd run to the door when I would hear knocks,
Whether we played on the couch or with me in a box,
I loved to blow bubbles,
And do all my puzzles,
Some days we'd play and have a good time,
Some days I was tired and just wanted to whine,
I'm glad that we've had more good days then bad,
But everytime you tell me no I still get so mad,
Don't you remember my first word was ball,
And when my favorite thing to do was dress up a doll,
Think of all the animals that you got to meet,
You even learned how to work with a pig at your feet,
We thank you so much for all that you've done,
I hope we continue to have just as much fun.

<3 Mikey.

So far this summer...

Mikey is steadily making progress. Hes speaking sentences now, such as "no want go night night" "wanna watch umizoomi" stuff like that. So, he is getting much better as far as telling us his wants, and what he doesnt want! Hes great with peoples names (except his own) we are working on that now. He will call whoever he doesnt know "guy" :) Mikey is doing so much better using his words in front of people even in groups of people. He was pretty shy before about it. But now, he says bye bye and love you. He still loves his puzzles and naming pictures of people and things so we still do that alot too.

On a side note: We only have 2 more weeks left with Beth for speech therapy. I am very sad about this since shes been with him for so long :(she has been a very important part of his life through all of this and  next Wednesday will be a sad day. But Mikeys gonna do something very special for her so she will always remember him. (not that I think that would ever be a problem)

Michaels Speech 2

Michaels Speech

Name the picture...

Okay, so Mikeys has always been really good at pointing out a picture when you say the name to him but we are encouraging him to use his words. We have been practicing with a book with pictures of 100 things and asking him "what is that" and the following is the pictures that he knows and SAYS the name of when asked... its pretty awesome.

shoes
ball
fish
bike
bottle
banana
bear
brush
cup
cheese
tree
butterfly
socks
shirt
cat
bird
pig
car
truck

He is doing a great job at calling everyone by name including the animals :)
After working for even a little while though Mike gets very tired and has to take breaks. I caught him today though sitting on the stairs just having a little conversation with himself just babbling away about Suey (our pig) thats the only part I really understood but he doesnt babble very often so I just thought it was soo cute!

Anti-Cochlear implant man...

The other day, I took the boys and Ali to get their haircut. While waiting there a gentleman comes up to me and says "huh, he has two cochlear implants" I said "wow, im surprised you know what they are" He went on to tell me he majored in sign language and has done a lot of work in the deaf community and stuff,  I told him that was great and I plan on teaching Michael sign later on, since we cant right now with the AVT therapy. He then asked me, "well, why did you do that? You know, get him  the implants?" I told him I felt it was the best desicion i had ever made and that I did not regret it at all. He then told me how he knew all these kids that had implants and as soon as they were old enough they took them off and decided to live deaf and only sign. I was getting irritated by this point and just told him that I really did not see my son doing that since he really enjoys hearing and i believe will also think we made the right choice for him. Really never thought I would meet one of those people but, oh well.

To each their own I guess....