Drew has captured his balance enough to start walking! He took a couple of steps on New Year’s Day, and since then has taken some each day. We caught this tonight:
Usually Drew will just decide to walk instead of crawl, completely unprompted. In order to get him on video I had to give him a [...]
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Drew is talking…a lot. But what happened to Mama?!?
Drew has quite the personality. I think he is saying “Dada” on purpose! Every time I ask him to say “Mama” he says “Dada”. Actually, my daughter did the exact same thing. She said “ma ma ma ma” first and then went months before she said it [...]
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Life with two young children is quite busy these days. Add in a full time job and a lot of family activities and my blogging somehow falls behind. With that I have failed to update all of the exciting things that have been going on with Drew! Here are some things he has been doing [...]
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Drew is consistently moving through his different “maps” and is doing well. Yesterday we tested his hearing ability by having Drew’s Mom sit behind him and make the “Ling Sounds”. These sounds are 1) “aaah”, 2) “oooh”, 3) “eeee”, 4) “mmmm”, 5) “ssss”, and 6) “shhh”, and are supposed to represent the sounds [...]
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Drew’s Incision
Sitting Up
Drew’s Sister Playing “Piggies”
I took Drew to have his bandages removed today. Dr. Kang removed them fairly quickly and said that Drew is healing nicely. It was a very fast – my kind of appointment.
As a side note, I have to say how thankful I am for Dr. Kang. He [...]
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Today we had our monthly parent education meeting through the Regional Infant Hearing Program here in Columbus. I should say bi-monthly in this case, since we were snowed in for our February meeting! Our parent educator had not seen Drew since January, so I think she was really excited to see how much he has [...]
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Drew started laughing today. Drew’s Dad and I have suspected for several days that he is laughing while laying in front of his conversation mirror, but we weren’t quite sure. Well, Gamma and Uncle Ran-Ran confirmed that Drew was in fact laughing at some rather silly faces Uncle Ran-Ran was making today! It is the [...]
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