Wordless Wednesdays 7-24-13

Brody's had a fun week hanging out with Mommy before I have to go back to school! Bear (our dog) has decided to take full advantage of me being home. He had a bad stomach virus all week.This post really isn't "wordless." We had a busy week!

Poor Bear Bear :(

Friday, Brody and I went to PipSqueaks at Heuser. Ms. Paula had organized a parent panel. It was very informative! People tend to think that since I am in the field, I know everything. BUT teaching the child at school and raising the child at home are completely different! We take any advice offered! If you haven't seen it yet, here is a news segment done on one of Brody's PipSqueaks peers. She is super sweet and cute! Reyn is already making huge progress within the past two months and I have no doubt she will be amazing us for years to come! She did have good benefit from her hearing aids before the surgery, where Brody has nothing. This helps in how quickly she is progressing. Hopefully Brody won't be too far behind though!

http://www.wdrb.com/story/22907890/hearing-clearly-a-toddlers-first-experience-with-the-sounds-of-life

Friday night, we had a going away party for Aunt Sara and Uncle Dany. They are moving to Panama. Dany's family lives there. They are spending some time in Miami before flying down to Panama. Their dogs have to be acclimated to the heat before they can move down.

Saturday, Grammy and Papa Tom came down to visit. While Papa Tom helped Jordan move Aunt Sara's couch, Grammy got to spend some time with Brody. Of course, I didn't get any pictures! Oops!

Sunday, we went out to eat with the family after church. Afterwards, we went back to Grandma and Papa Brown's house. Grandma found some old family videos that we watched for about 4 hours. We didn't know what was worse-the clothes or the haircuts! There were a few videos where Brody looked just like Mommy when she was little!

Monday, we had to say good-bye to Aunt Sara and Uncle Dany. :( After a crazy day and leaving later than they had wanted to, they headed off to Miami for a few days. Brody is very sad (and so are we)! I had a really cute video of him waving good-bye, but I can't get it to load right. I'll keep working on it.

Getting in some last minute Aunt Sara time!

Waving bye!

We were supposed to go to Aquatherapy again, but it was storming and we couldn't get in the pool.


Tuesday, Ms. Pat, Brody's Physical therapist, came. They are doing a reevaluation for eligibility to keep receiving First Step (Kentucky's early intervention) services. Since Brody has the Usher Syndrome diagnosis, he pretty much qualifies for all of First Steps. We also talked about adding an Occupational Therapist to his plan. When Daddy got home, we got out the water table Aunt Sara gave Brody for his birthday. He loves it! Although, he keeps trying to get into it like a baby pool. We also got to FINALLY enjoy our new deck! This whole deck building process has been a nightmare! They have to come back and fix a few things and then it is officially finished! 

  

Warm baby after playing in the water table

Helping himself to the veggie straws

Daddy bought us Notre Dame tickets the other day, soma mommy put me in the Bama jersery! 

Brody is trying really hard to crawl on all fours (with his head up). He will go short distances but if it is longer, the head goes back down or he resorts to crawling. I keep trying to get it on film, but he gets camera shy.

Ignore Cars blaring in the background. I didn't have time to mute it!

Mommy has professional development the rest of the week, so Brody gets to hang out with Grandma! I don't know who is more excited Brody or Grandma!