No matter what it is, she wants to do it by herself. Don't even think about trying to help her! You will get a glare like none other. When she wants to do something, she sticks with it and tries over and over again until she figures it out. Yesterday she worked on buttons for almost 20 minutes before figuring out how they work! I'm convinced that her spunky, independent attitude accounts for much of her success and growth this last year. I am so proud of her and love seeing her learn new things.
This week she started putting her hearing aid on all by herself! She ends up with some pretty interesting hair at times but I think it is awesome that she wants to do it.
And since we're talking about awesome, how about this one...Hannah has been discharged from speech therapy! I must admit I was pretty shocked by this one (and so was her speech therapist!) but over the last several weeks she has completed several different speech assessments. Hannah did great on all of them and showed that she has caught up to age level in every area! Crazy.
One more awesome thing...we got a call a couple of weeks ago that we did not expect and thought we might never get. Our audiologist has been fighting our insurance for Hannah to be able to have bilateral BAHAS (two hearing aids since she has hearing loss on both sides). Right now she has a loaner from the hospital and it is just one BAHA. Well, we got the call that they got insurance approval for bilateral! We are absolutely thrilled and can't wait to see what is ahead for our little girl. We get her new hearing aids on March 6th.
She's full of spunk, sometimes full of attitude, full of life, full of joy, bursting with energy and talking non-stop all day long. What an amazing thing to see her blossom like this!
