It has been a very hectic few weeks in my home and I have barely been able to breathe it seems. Lily has grown by leaps and bounds right before our very eyes! It is so amazing watching her grow and watching her speech and understanding develop! We have had several visits with Miss Cheryl since my last post and unfortunately I kept walking out of the house without my camera and of course I realized as I pulled into the parking lot of Zimmerman Speech & Hearing Center. What can I say life with Lily and three teens these days is just a bit interesting.
So in our last few sessions with Cheryl Lily has just wowed us with her skills! I always walk in and tell Cheryl all about Lily's past week and the things we have seen at home which of course she chooses not to always demonstrate for Cheryl. On the other hand Lily will demonstrate the things I don't even realize she knows which is always amazing. In the last few weeks Lily's Neptune got some new programming including the Hi-Res Fidelity 120 and we have seen huge leaps in her understanding of speech in the last week and a half that she has used it. She is clearly responding to her name, waves "hi" when you say hi to her, waves "bye bye" when you say bye bye to her, she is being able to recognize, by sound, all of the toys/objects in her speech box at home, and she also recognized mommy and daddy! One of the cutest things from this week, which of course I missed on camera, was when Cheryl sang the clap your hands song for Lily and Lily clapped without any hints and she did it with a huge smile and a little giggle! I am telling you the cuteness just doesn't end with this one! Daddy got to go this week so I really wanted to get more footage but just wasn't able to with just my phone camera. I do have some footage taken on my phone that I caught throughout this week that I will share with you all so you can see how far she has come from the beginning. My mindset has come a long way since making the choice for cochlear implants for Lily. I was so scared that something would go wrong or she wouldn't hear and it would be all for nothing. Let me tell you my feelings are no longer of doubt and sadness...cochlear implants are an amazing gift from the technology world to ours!
Lily is waving "Hi" to mommy!
Lily hears mommy say her name and responds!
Stay tuned for more updates next week on Lily's progress and I promise I will pack the camera in the diaper bag the night before this week!
