Lan Lan: "Mom! There's a spider outside?"
Mom: "Kill it."
LL: "I can't!"
Mom: "Why not?"
LL: "I'm too big!"
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Fixing Little Ears (Part 2)
We got a phone call the night before LanLan's surgery telling us we were to be at the hospital at 7am and the surgery was scheduled for 9am. We packed our bags and put them in the car before we went to bed that night, that way all we needed to do in the morning was to put the kids in the car for our 6:15 departure.
Things went very smoothly in the morning, dropped the boys off at the babysitter and headed to the hospital. LanLan was so excited about the whole thing. When we arrived we were taken to a room where my sweet little girl got into her hospital gown. When she was all settled Mommy & Daddy gave her a "Happy Surgery Day" present which included a new Tag Reader book, a sticker book and a First Grade Homework book - she loved them and began right away playing with them. Soon after, the nurse came, also with a present for my little orchid. The present was a beautifully crocheted blanket. The nurse then began to take LanLan's vitals and asked a few questions. We had to wait in the room for a while but LanLan was enjoying her books and watching TV.
Kirsten & LanLan prepped for surgery |
coming out of anesthesia |
LanLan was too out of it to smile or even sit up for the camera |
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Fixing Little Ears (Part 1)
Our little orchid has been having problems with her hearing for a long
time but it was a little over a year ago that we took her to an ENT in China
and had her hearing checked. That was when we knew for sure that there
was a definite problem and not just a little girl who was choosing not
to listen and obey her mom & dad. Being in China though we weren't
sure what we should do and how to go about it.
Well, let me skip forward 9 months, we are in America and LanLan is
preparing to go to Kindergarten. She had to get a physical for school,
it was during the hearing test that the nurse looked at me and said that
she didn't pass. I was not surprised but ready to do something about
it. The pediatrician gave us a referral to an ENT, I called and made
the first available appointment . . . middle of December.
Skipping ahead again, it's Thanksgiving weekend and we are heading to my
brother's, an ENT. My brother had helped us interpret the test results
of our first ENT trip back in China. Now he was offering to take a
look at her ears and give us his opinion. He confirmed, again, that she
was suffering from significant hearing loss due to very think fluid in
her ears. Her nerves were fine so once the fluid is removed she should
be hearing normally. He recommended having tubes put in and her
adenoids removed.
Skipping ahead now to a week before the ENT appointment in December, I'm
calling to get the address of the place. That is when I realize this
place is in the city! My husband says . . . there is no way were are
traveling to the city just to get tubes in her ears. So I cancel and
have to search for a new, good ENT in the area. We find one, call and
make the first available appointment . . . . January!
The appointment finally arrives and we go. We meet the doctor and I
like him right away. I tell him LanLan's battle of ear infections,
antibiotic usage, hearing test etc. He conducted yet another hearing
test to confirm, again, that she still was not hearing. We talked about
my visit with my brother and what he said and the Doctor agreed and
said we should book the surgery. He suggested that we wait on the
adenoids since it's a bit more involved surgery but if we really
insisted he would removed them. He hoped that this being LanLan's first
time to get ear tubes put in that this might permanently fix the
problem. Then if it doesn't we could also take the adenoids out the
next time if need be.
So, we booked the first available surgery date . . . February 10, another months wait!
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
School Jobs
In LanLan's classroom each child has a special job they do for the week. At the beginning of each week the jobs change so every child gets a chance to do all the jobs. Some of the jobs are: Line Leader, Pledge, Teacher's Helper, Calender, Prayer Warrior, Wastebasket, etc.
We were asking her what her favorite job was and she answered "Line Leader! No, Prayer Warrior! No!! Line Leader!! NO! . . . . Calender Girl!"
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Snow = Snow
As my little Orchid looks out the window excitedly watching the very wet snow fall down to the ground she screeches with delight about all the things she will do with the snow. I try and explain that the ground is too wet and too warm and there won't really be any snow to accumulate. She turns to me and explains "Mom, when it's snowing it turns into SNOW!"
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
English Class
When we first took LanLan to her Kindergarten class she asked if her teacher was going to speak English or Chinese and when we told her that it would be in English she responded with "But I need to keep learning Chinese.". I could hear my husband's heart breaking, it is his dream for her to speak fluent Chinese . . . and she will soon forget it all.
I'm pretty sure though, she is enjoying being in English school and surrounded all the time by English. A day or two ago LanLan pulled a comic book out of a cereal box. So excited about it she ran up to her grandmother and said "Look, it's in English!!"
(We would get her comic books in China, in Chinese of course, but I don't think she knew they existed in English.)
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Milestones in Pictures
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