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Category Archives: happy ears
Sleep and Rock- Paper- Scissors
For the fifth year in a row, Catherine gathered friends and jumped in the waters of Lake Calhoun recently in the Special Olympics’ Polar Plunge. This year’s team consisted of 25 juniors and seniors from Edina high school in … Continue reading
Posted in Doctor, happy ears, Sleep
Tagged Children's hospital, new dog newer tricks, Polar Plunge, Surgery, Travel
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The SEAL and the monkey
During this time, and for much of the winter, Timothy has had a steadily runny nose. Wiping off his runny nose has the look of a Navy SEAL operation. You don’t walk into the thing unprepared or you’ll get … Continue reading
Abe Lincoln
We often suffer from ‘TRBL hearing’ in our house. It’s not that Timothy’s hearing is bad. In fact, although we worried for the first year and a half of his life about his hearing, recent tests confirmed that his … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, happy ears
Tagged church, Mark Weber, new dog newer tricks, Outward Bound, Sign language
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Pit stop
At no time does Timothy seem more active than the time when you’d like to have him calm and quiet – when he’s getting his diaper changed. I’ve tried to come up with an analogy for what it’s like to … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Doctor, grabbing, happy ears
Tagged ABR test, Let Dad cry it out, Notre Dame, Sign language, Surgery
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Perfect
I want to post some good news we got today. In the past 17 months, Timothy has had 5 hearing tests whose results ranged from ‘poor’ to ‘inconclusive’ to ‘patient refuses to cooperate’. Today, after 6 hours at Children’s Hospital … Continue reading
Bath water Happy Hour
Holding Timothy is sometimes an adventure, and so it was a few days ago when Timothy decided to combine a few of his favorite hobbies. I was holding him when he spit up on his hands and then started running … Continue reading
Posted in grabbing, happy ears
Tagged bath time, Dr Timothy/ Mr TRBL, hearing, lots of hair pulling, Outward Bound, Parental injuries
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A Tale of Two Waffles
Timothy is 16 months old today, and we celebrated by taking him for a mall walk. He slept through it. Timothy has a habit of crawling into the kitchen and pulling cookbooks down from a low shelf. It gets a … Continue reading
Posted in crawling, Eating, grabbing, happy ears
Tagged Christmas, Dr Timothy/ Mr TRBL, new dog newer tricks, Stop thief
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