Hello...Hello Moto Moto.

Hi all, it has been awhile since I have written in my blog. So here I am. Things are getting so busy around here. SPRING IS HERE!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOHOOOOO. I thought it would never come. Just a few short months ago I was looking forward to spring, but never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I would hear spring. I can hear the birds. IT IS WONDERFUL!!!!! We are pretty busy around here trying to get things ready for our garden. It is still alittle to wet to plant yet, but it sure won't be long. Today the high was 72 and it was amazing to be able to drive with the windows down, although wind noise is still a HORRIBLE noise. You could smell the fresh cut grass. Needless to say we ALL have spring fever in this household. But along with spring comes allergy season. Now I dont have allergies, but everyone else here does, including the kids. On top of allergies Toby also has asthma, so we have a kinda love hate relationship with spring.

As far as my hearing it is going pretty good. I have had to have some electrodes in my right ear turned off cause they cause me to have an awful pain. But I go to the audiologist on the 21st of April and there is gonna be a representative from Advanced Bionics (the maker of my cochlear implants) there. She is gonna take a look and make sure that there isn't a problem with that device. I also hope she has some suggestions on how I can get those electrodes turned back on without causing pain. But even with all of that it is still pretty good. I am able to pick out a few more words during conversations and I had a WOW moment the other day. I can actually understand on my cell phone if the person on the other end talks slowly and clearly. It was AMAZING. I can understand better on my cell phone than I can on my CapTel phone.

Well you might be wondering about the title of this entry. It is actually a funny from our house. There is a movie called Madagascar 2. Well the hippo in the movie is called Moto Moto (the name so nice they say it twice). Well to hippo's it is sexy to be what they call CHUNKY. Anyway Toby walked up to me yesterday and said "Mommie I lub ewe, ewe are CHUNKY" Keep in mind when Toby says chunky his voice goes down like 4 octaves to a bass voice. I said "TOBY" And he said "But mommie I just think ewe are beauuuuuuuutiful." Now I ask how can you argue with that. And so in the mornings when I put my "ears" on for the day I always say something so I can tell if the volume is too loud and such. So now my new phrase is "Hello....Hello....Moto Moto."