Lily Update & Story

As I picked Lily up from Sunday School today, the teacher told me how wonderful she played with another little girl named Haley. Lily has been in this class since August, and she usually sits to the side and plays by herself; her teacher has always told me she behaves well and is their "class observer." Given what we had recently learned about Lily's hearing, in hind-sight this makes sense - she didn't want to participate in all the noise that surrounded and overwhelmed her. Her teacher replied that actually, yes, she did participate more and seemed more interested in what was going on. I then told her she had tubes put in earlier in the week, and she quickly agreed that it seemed to make a difference. I relayed these things on to Ryan who had picked up Mia, and we agreed that it affirmed our decision to get the tubes and that her situation is improving. Also, on the car ride home, I asked Lily what they had talked about in class. She immediately started telling me about Zaccheus. She then started telling me lots of details; she has never told me details of her class before, even when it was a story she was very familiar with. Again, this tells me that she was able to actually hear and understand the teacher today. These are all very positive things for Ryan and me to see in her.

Here's just a quick little story on Lily too. Last night she was sitting on the couch playing with her toys; we had the NFL playoff game on. Here's how our conversation went:

L: Mommy, football is my favorite to watch. Do you like football?
M: Yes, I do. It's my favorite to watch too. Do you think Daddy likes football?
L: Yea! He does (she pronounces "does" as "dooz" which cracks me up). There's someone else that likes football. She's little. Do you know who it is?
M: Who?
L: Mia! She likes football too. I think she likes watching songs more though (we call the Cedermont Kids DVDs "songs).
M: I think so too. Which one of the songs do you think his her favorite to watch?
L: Umm...I think yellow (all the DVDs are a different color so we identify them by color) is her favorite because she sits the most still for that one. So yeah, I think yellow is her favorite.

That's our observant Lily, noticing which one Mia seems to sit the most still for! It is funny to see Mia get so excited though about these DVDs. She will start bouncing up and down, clapping and laughing as soon as she sees the FBI warning come up...she knows what is coming!