And We're Back!

Our usual sausage breakfast waiting to see Cheryl!

 Last week Miss Cheryl was not feeling well so we did not have therapy, but thankfully she was feeling much better this week!  We are back this week with many exciting developments in Lily's life!  Unfortunately Lily was a bit stubborn when it came to therapy this week, but that could be because she was not ready to be awake that morning.  All in all she did pretty good she was just on her own schedule and wanted to do her own things and not so much some of the stuff we wanted her to do.

We learned a couple of new routines this week which I think Lily is enjoying.  Sadly I forgot the tool for one of them in Cheryl's office.  It was the big "googley" eye!  Lily has been very interested in the baby's eye for a few weeks now so Cheryl had decided maybe it was time to introduce Lily to the word "eye".  Lily seemed to like this one a lot and has been poking me in the eye all week now!  We also introduced her to a new scarf "up, up, up, Down" routine that Lily seemed just kind of so-so about.  Mainly I think it is because she was tired.  She just wasn't her usual animated self this Tuesday.  She did choose to demonstrate for Cheryl her new found sounds of the week which was pretty cool!  She is now saying and mimicking "baba", "mama", and "wawa".  This little girl is on fire I tell you!  She has also gone from walking to nearly running!

 You can tell she is tired when she sits in my lap and isn't all over the place

 This is Lily talking a week ago...

This is Lily saying "baba" on Friday this week!

Tune in later this week for a compilation of Lily's last 8 weeks and some new things she is picking up and her new favorite hobbies!

Daddy Joins Us For Therapy and Lily Uses The T-comm!

Lily modeling her newly active T-comm

This weeks therapy session with Cheryl was super exciting because Lily's daddy got the chance to go and see exactly what happens behind the curtain.  So far Bobby has only been able to see the videos and the amazing after effects of Lily's visits with Zimmerman Speech & Hearing Center.  It was truly amazing to see how very excited Miss Lilybug was to see her daddy doing her therapy exercises with her as well as mommy and Cheryl!

We learned a new routine this week and it was so cute to see Lily pick it up almost instantly.  We learned "shhhhh" where we put the little baby into a little crib and say "shhhhh".  Lily actually put the baby in the crib and started whispering or at least what sounded like whispering.  We were all pretty amazed at how quickly she got that one down.  We are starting to notice that Lily is hitting a very stubborn phase so sometimes it is not so easy to get her to pick up on the routines.  She is much more interested in her own desires lately, but she still seems to be doing phenomenally!

This week just happened to be one of the weeks where Lily had a mapping the day after her speech therapy.  At last weeks therapy session we discussed with Cheryl if we should try out Lily's T-comm devices with her Neptune processors to see if there may be some good benefits for Lily.  We were both in agreement that it would be a good idea so at this weeks mapping Lily got to try out her new T-comm devices!  She did really well adjusting to them, but she does like to pull them off once she notices they are there.  I assume, like her headpieces, she will leave them alone once she acclimates to them.

After her new programs were active and Lily was all set up her audiologist started talking to her and Lily actually responded to her!  Lily usually runs around and does her own thing when not in the sound booth.  We feel this was a pretty big step for Lily to realize she was being spoken to.  We are noticing this more and more as the weeks go by.  Lily responds to her name, the television, and music.  She has a new found affinity for dancing as well and it almost sounds like humming!  She sure is one happy little girl!

Let me share some pictures of how the T-comm setup looks with Lily's Neptune processors.  We absolutely love that there are little flexible holding wires to keep the T-comm on her ears!  It makes it so much easier to keep them on her.

 

You can see Lily's Neptune headpiece connected to the T-comm via the short cable and then the long cable connects the T-comm to the processor.

Now for some just generally adorable pictures of Lily modeling her T-comm and Neptunes!  I really do believe Lily LOVES to hear her world around her.

 This is Lily's semi-ornery smile

 Lily wants mommy's camera

 I don't know what she was looking at, but this is a good view of her setup!

There is my sweet girl!

Stay tuned for more Lilybug adventures next week as we venture to our first therapy session with Lily's T-comms!