FINALLY.... THANKSGIVING PICS

Our Little Turkey





Daniel's birthday was on Thanksgiving this year. Hope you had a great birthday honey!


This Thanksgiving was completely different than last years. I was thinking all day on Thanksgiving what we had done last year. How we had worked it out with both sets of parents and what not and it dawned on me that we spent last years Thanksgiving at Children's Hospital. We has so much to be thankful this year. We got to be home with family and spend it with the ones we love and got to enjoy our little girl at home instead of the hospital.

Emory has received a new hearing aide device. It is called a "BAHA." It is a Bone Anchored Hearing Aide. (www.umm.edu/otolaryngology/baha.htm If you to this website it will explain the BAHA)It so very cool. I have always heard that you can see when a child learns something new for the first time by the expression on their faces. Well Emory when she first got her new hearing aide of course she cried like the world was coming to an end but that is normal something not for sure if we are going to like it. But Emory has so wonderful with it. It is on a headband (normally we take off our headbands) and she leaves it on for the most part. The day after when she was home with my mom for the day and the neighbors dogs started to bark Emory's eyes got really big and and she has this surprised look on her face and my mom explained that that was the dogs barking. Mom said it was the most neat and amazing experience because she knew that Emory heard those dogs barking for the first time. Well here is was the BAHA looks like (the pictures are not the best but at least you get to see what it looks like:





You just snap the hearing aide piece (the first two pictures) in to the base on the headband (the third picture) and then we can place the base part anywhere on her head. Pretty amazing. If this works out to be a good thing, which it already is, the will surgicially implant it behind the ear.

It is staring to look a lot like Christmas around our house. I decided this year to make a wreath, which my mom helped me with (thanks mom, love ya) and the tuesday of Thanksgiving week I put up our tree.