Where do I even begin??? It is so exciting to look back over these last three months of activation and see results. Kids are little sponges. They absorb more than we think they do. With an implanted kid, you have no idea what sounds they are taking in until they spit them out.
Last night I wrote down all the sounds/words that Molly understands or at least seems to understand. To my surprise I came up with about 25. She is saying 15+ sounds for specific words. It has been so cool to see Molly’s unbelievable desire to communicate.

She is quite obsessed with "The Itsy Bitsy Spider". If I start to sing the song, without visuals, she will do most of the motions. On occasion, I find her in her highchair or carseat doing the motions and "singing" along. You know, I was singing this to her ad nauseam for the first 2 months and she showed zero interest. I took her to storytime at the library and she saw the librarian and kids singing/doing the motions and she decided it was pretty cool. Go figure!

Here is a picture of our little singer in her rocking chair.

Molly has been making some progress with her vocabulary and word recognition. We did have a few setbacks in December because of sickness and traveling. There were days where she refused to keep her external device on (constant battle with mommy). There were days where she did not babble/talk at all. This was probably due to not feeling well, out of her environment or too much background noise. I assume all of this is very typical.

Lately she has been saying "ah, ah" for up, "own" for down and "baaa" (southern drawl) for bye. She will turn to her name and "no". When we say "no"(without visuals), from across the room, she will stop and wag her finger at the object she is not allowed to touch. Silly kid!

Speaking of silly....Here is Molly playing dress-up with her cousins on New Years Day. Still Bossy!