Leven: He is done with track and pretty much everything else for this school year. He will start working on volleyball for next year. He usually has several volleyball camps this summer and he opens the gym up for the ones that want to lift weights and play volleyball together. His 40th birthday is coming up next month and I'm taking him to Las Vegas! We are so excited for this trip. We have our family and friends going as well.
Trever: Trever is now finished with his junior year of sports! His baseball team won the first round of playoffs but fell short this past Saturday against Waxahatchie for Area. This time next year they should be unstoppable! The whole team is coming back except for 3 seniors. And they will have a new coach!! Next on Trever's agenda...a job! He has his choir pop concert this Friday. He is singing another solo this year. Will post video next week!
Taydem: Taydem has had a lot going on with her this past month. She graduated from Pre-K this past Saturday! I never thought I would be the one to get all teary eyed, but my gosh. How I'm I suppose to make it 18 more years of this stuff?? Her Preschool did such a good job with graduation. I was so proud of her. She starts Kindergarten next year. We went and signed up last week. Another dang milestone!
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| She loves her Aunt Dain |
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| Her Papa and Nana |
We found out a little over a month ago that Taydem will also need hearing aids. I say "also" because her Bubba has them as well. Trever got his hearing aids around the age of 2. I have always worried about her ears since she first started having ear infections. She had 7 before she turned 1. They finally put her first set of tubes in her ears at the age of 15 months. Those soon fell out (they were actually stuck in her ear canal, lord knows exactly how long) and she got a second pair of tubes last March (age 3). Around January, I started noticing her reading my lips more and asking me to repeat everything we said to her. Lots of "huhs", "what did you say," "I didn't hear you Momma." I took her to see her ENT and he found that her left tube had fallen out and was stuck in her ear canal once again. Her ear canals are smaller than most he said. So the right tube is still in place doing its job. So I took her back to the Audiologist to have her tested. The entire time I sat there watching my poor child repeat after him and not even coming close to what he was really saying just broke my heart. I knew right away that she wasn't hearing clearly. She has moderate hearing loss. This does not mean she's deaf or is even close to being deaf. It simply means that she has a hard time hearing certain sounds and more importantly what is said to her. Everything she hears is muffled. This is why she doesn't sing songs well. She is always on the right key, but makes up her own words. Words + music doesn't go well with her. With her starting school in August, it's a must to get her wearing the hearing aids. She is super smart and I don't want her to fall behind in school bc she can't hear what the teacher is teaching. I left that day crying all the way home (I had my sun glasses on so Tay wouldn't see me!). You want your children to be perfect in every way. I don't want her to go through life being picked on, and asking herself, "why me?" Right now she is exctied about the hearing aids, bc her Bubba wears them. But 10 years from now she will probably hate them. Trever is a super young man and a class act compared to other 17 year olds. And I know one of the main reasons for this is because of those hearing aids. Leven and Trever's mom have done an outstanding job with Trever. They never felt sorry for him or treated him any different. And Leven will have to help me with all this. Trever told me that at least Taydem has LONG hair. I had to smile at this and agree with him. We got fitted last week for the hearing aids and they should be here next week. I keep telling myself....it could be worse Devin. Taydem is beautiful in every way possible and I'm so lucky she's mine.
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| He was creating her ear piece with this pink mold! |
Devin: I feel like all I've been doing is running around crazy being MOM. I went to buy Trever new clothes today on my lunch break for his choir concent this Friday. Running Taydem back and forth to different doctor appointments (she got a really bad ear infection this past Friday, go figure...and now I'm sick!) I started boot camp back up again last Monday. I got my new friend, Suzy, to tag along with me. It works out great. I pick up her every morning so it's a must that I get up! We went all 5 days last week. I didn't make it this morning bc I didn't feel good so I will go tonight. Gotta get this body ready for Vegas! I am still loving my job. A couple of weeks ago we went to the Texas Ranger's baseball game. My company has season tickets! We had a blast. Danin and Eric also came along with us.
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Thanks for loggin back in!! I check in at least once a week and have really missed hearing my updates. Your baby is so beautiful and still perfect. The road won't be easy - especially throught all the time she will lose those hearing aids (surprised Trevor was able to live to his teen years) and i know her teen years will be hard to handle. But I have NO DOUBT that you and Leven are the greatest parents. You got this Girl! Love all of you.
Sorry to hear that Taydem has to have hearing aids. I feel your pain on the ear infection front. Grant had 10-12 before he finally got tubes at 9 months old! Crazy. He's much better now, but I worry about the long-term affects of all those infections and the tubes. Good luck - I'm sure Taydem will be fine!
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