Grandma and Grandpa have puppies at their house, five of them to be exact. The kids LOVE the puppies. Audrena gets so excited, but she doesn't quite know what to do with them. She wants to hold them, but then she doesn't want to hold them. She picks them up, and she puts them down. She pets them, and she frets over them. If they snuggle up on top of each other like puppies do, she wants them separated. It's like she thinks one is hurting the other. So she tells them, "No! Git!" Then she gently pushes the top one off of the other. If we put the puppies away, she asks for them to be "ou," which is "out" to her (she still drops the t). It's fun to watch her try to figure out what exactly to do with them.
Last weekend, we went to a birthday party. During the fun of the party, we played with balloons. Audrena mastered clapping and exclaiming, "Yay!" I could just clap and shout "yay" as well because I just love it when she adds to her vocabulary, and it was another new word for us!
Audrena also pushes/pulls on us and says, "Git," which to her is "get," as in "get that," or "get up." She brought me a baby doll a few nights ago and said "baby." Up until now, that was part of her receptive language, but she had not actually said it. Those spontaneous things are becoming more common. It's really great to see her blossoming!
Next weekend we are having Audrena's second birthday party. She has ear surgery next week, so we are unsure how she will actually feel on her birthday. It's hard to believe that last year at this time we still did not know for sure that she was deaf. Three ear surgeries and year later we will be celebrating her birthday and her growth--growth as a child, growth as an individual, growth in physical ability, growth in speech and language. I never could have dreamed we would be where we are now. It's amazing what a year can bring.
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