Dec 29 2007
For Christmas this year Carrie and I packed up the kids and headed to Chico, CA. We are spending the Christmas to New Year’s Holiday with the Wests, Boulants, Ross, and Jones families in Chico. It was a surprising short drive for us (10 hours) compared to the almost 12 hours from Logan that we have usually done over the last 5 years.
Dec 26 2007
We had three appointments last Thursday, December 20th at Primary Children’s Hospital. We met with Dr. Alan Rope, Maddie’s geneticist, Dr. Parks, her ENT, a speech pathologist, and her Opthamologist. Being as confused as we are about all the different things that the doctors are telling us I thought it would be great to include a little Genetics 101 with this update.
Dec 19 2007
My boss here at Signing Time, Chris Higbee, is a great singer! He’s recorded Gloria and O Holy Night with his brother Rich. I just thought it was awesome so I thought I’d blog it!
If you’d like to listen to the recordings and add it to your Christmas collection feel free to do so! Simply click the link the below
Dec 18 2007
So last Friday we had an appointment with Maddie’s Audiologist here in Bountiful. We had been to see him twice and performed two audiograms. We also saw another audiologist in Salt Lake City for a second opinion. As many of you know the results from those 3 different audiograms showed that Madalynn had a significant hearing improvement from what she had only a few months previously. However, things are always changing…
Dec 12 2007
As Christmas approaches I’m sure we are all busying ourselves with the typical bustle of the Holiday Season. I have a few stories that I’d like to share this week. A visit from Santa, snow falling fast and hard, work and ward Christmas parties, and music to brighten the Christmas Cheer.
Dec 05 2007
Leah Coleman was born deaf and her mother, Rachel became frustrated that others couldn’t communicate with Leah. In an effort to help others be able to communicate with Leah, Rachel and her sister created a video series called Signing Time which anyone can learn from. This now airs on Public Television across the country.
Dec 04 2007
I posted some of the best pictures from our photo shoot last week and I promised that I would post the rest of the photo shoot so here there are. The first group of photos is from a photo shoot in November. The second photo shoot was done in mid-October.