On Tuesday, my daughter turns 5 years old. We are very excited to be getting ready for this event. As her main gift we purchased our second Nintendo DS. While on a week long fishing trip up north in Hayward, WI; our daughter felt it necessary to give Mario and his friends a bath while we were on a boat.
This weekend my mom will be coming from Minnesota for the party. Marissa really enjoys meeting up with her other grandma and is very excited to see her. We will not be having a huge party with all of her friends from school because it is not worth the headache.
I also found out I will be an uncle AGAIN. My older stepbrother and his fiance just found out they are expecting. Tina wants them to have a girl so Marissa has another girl in the family. She has 4 cousins and all of them are boys.
I think about the things we have experienced raising such a special child and am very excited about the future. It seems like yesterday she got her first hearing aids, with Tina and I going over countless ASL books learning and trying to teach this language. We have gotten great reports from school on how we raised her and our methods of teaching. Her interpreter is just amazed on her knowledge and comprehension of ASL.
Go Vikes until then Go Twins
3 comments:
haha man thats funny. i hope she has a great bday. good lucj with everything.
i'm going to try to say this as sensitively as i can, so please try not to take offense, i once had a teacher in middle school who started crying when someone asked her this.
How did you daughter learn to "talk"? i suppose it would depend on the extent of hearing lose she has, but i think you said neither you or your wife was fluent in ASL, when did she begin to sign and who taught her?
Ayla,
in regards to your comment.
1. It is very hard to offend me.
2. Once we found out Marissa was deaf we taught ourselves and would teach Marissa as we would learn. When I was in Iraq I lost touch and forgot most of what I learned, but once I got back I picked it up again. There are many resources out there and we picked up as many ASL books as we could afford and we learned. Marissa knows over 500 words, and since she has been at the Early Learning Center with a full time interpreter she has learned more. I hope that answers your question, if not talk to me about it after class sometime. I enjoy boasting about my daughter..
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