The first photo is of her sitting in Granny's lap is just after the first aid was put into her left ear for the first time. Her eyes got big and she looked around; it seems by the look on her face that something is different as Granny is talking to her. She quickly decided, however that putting in the earmolds was no fun at all, and having stuff in her ears was less than pleasant. Ella may hold the record for figuring out how to remove new ear molds faster than any other 9 month old! After a while, she began bothering them less and less. Maybe she will eventually get used to them (I hope!!). She has also already figured out that they make handy teethers.
That brings me to her other big news this week; Ella has teeth! Her first two bottom teeth came through on Saturday. She is all of a sudden much more interested in 'real food'; I guess since she now has teeth she thinks that she ought to be using them! Last night she sucked/gummed/teethed all the inside mushy part out of a french fry and enjoyed it very much! LOL!
Faith also got her new hearing aids yesterday! Now, all three of us have matching pink Epoq XW's (the girls didn't get a Streamer though, that's Mom's toy!). We all have sparkles in our earmolds too, but they are all different collors: Faiths are pink with pink sparkles, Ella's are light pink and clear swirled with silver sparkles, and mine are clear with pink sparkles! Faith said she could tell a difference in how she hears between the Safran and the Epoqs. I think it was a good decision to go ahead and move her up (now just praying insurance pays the difference, I could fill a whole nother blog on my adventures with the insurance company! LOL!). Faith is really looking forward to her camp at the Hearing School next week; I think it will be good for her, even if it is just that she gets to be around other kids with hearing loss (but I know it will be a whole lot more!).
