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10 on Tuesday

We took our first family vacay the first weekend on March. We went to Gatlinburg/Knoxville for my old college buddy Jon's birthday. We arrived on Sunday and left that following Tuesday. It was just long enough. We took the kids to the Ripley's Aquarium up there and they just loved seeing all of the fish. Like a goob, I left my memory card OUT of the camera and didn't realize it until we got out tickets and what not. Thankfully and not so much the gift shop had one. Granted I really hated paying $31 for a 2gb memory card but it was worth it.

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3. I've slowly started working on the kids birthday's. I've gotten a date picked out and some other smaller things worked out. I really can't believe that they are going to be 3 and 2! It makes me sad at how fast time has flown.
4. Yesterday marked the 1 year anniversary of Brayden's dog attack. I'm thankful every day that I have my little boy to love on and smother with kisses. His scars have healed up nicely and those on his head have given him the wonky-est cowlick ever. It's a pain to cut but just minor than what it could be.
5. I have everything needed for the kids for Easter. Which is a major plus for me! Brayden's outfit should be here tomorrow and Aslynn's is hanging up waiting. Hopefully it will be nice this year and I'll be able to take some good pictures of them.
6. I've been crocheting odds and ends of things as well as their blankets. I've got a bunch of dishcloths and hot pads waiting for me to sew the ends in and give them to their respective owners.
   
7. I can only really think of 6 so the rest will be pictures. :D
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1. This was a road sign in Sevierville where they are currently doing road construction.

Obstacles

Many of you know that we have been working over the past 6 months with Brayden and speech therapy. We also for the past 6 months have had an audiology appointment for him. That was Feb 16th and needless to say we didn't get confirmed answers. We just got more theories. The audiologist pretty much said that Brayden has conductive hearing loss in both ears. But what she couldn't answer was how come or why. She guessed that Brayden, from the looks of his ears had a double ear infection, which he may have had, but that doesn't change anything because his hearing has been the same regardless of one, two or no infections. Currently Brayden has to hear things at 25% higher of decibel volume. She said we should treat the infections if there are, she actually stated something different that has escaped me and we could have it retested in 2 months to make sure the infection is indeed gone or we could seek the opinion of an ENT.

So, devestated none the less, I called his Ped. to get a referral for an ENT. Well she called back and said that she would like to check Brayden over just to make sure but the soonest appointment was a week out. No biggie, I didn't care because Brayden tells us when his ears hurt and he had been the same Brayden and never did his normal ear infection clues, so I didn't believe he had one or two even.

Our main reason for seeking the opinion of the ENT is to see what he/she thinks would be our best option. If tubes are that route, so be it. If tubes aren't then I want answer and help on how to allow my child to hear and speak to me.

We currently are waiting to hear from the ENT's office about an appointment.

I just need answers because right now is the time for Brayden to learn so much. Speech Therapy isn't doing him any good...out of the past 2 months the only thing he has gotten out of it is the sign for more and he really doesn't do that. What.the.f*ck.

It doesn't help, and I know she can't help it bless her heart, that Aslynn is little Miss Chatterbox with her Momma, thank you, love you, cup, please, bye, hi, night night, nummy, granna, mimi, ect.

I've wished for answers for so long and now I'm starting to think that there are no answers except that he can't hear all that well. If that is the answer then so be it I just want to know for sure, 100% for sure.