Sweet 16!

A couple of weeks ago we started planning for Emily’s birthday.  Since Emily doesn’t attend school in the school building her teacher said that they would plan a field trip to our house to share her birthday. 

The big day came and Emily looked as beautiful as any princess just turning 16.

Her friends arrived and the party began.

After singing “Happy Birthday”, twice because she liked it so much, we ate chocolate birthday cake. 

Then it was time to sing songs.  We went into the livingroom and sang with the singing program on the Wii.  We sang “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “The Bare Necessities”.

  

Emily was very sad when it was time for the party to be over. 

She looked like she was saying, “Hey, I was just getting warmed up!”

I told her there is another party on Saturday.  “Yippee!”

 

Happy Birthday Sweet 16!

 

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It IS Clean!

I asked Grace to clean her corner.  She responded, “It IS clean!  I don’t know what the big deal is.” 

I know sometimes I’m a little picky but I’ll let you guys decide.  A picture is always worth 1000 words.

More Amazing Communication

What movie do you want to watch Emily?




For those who are just surfing and happen across my blog I have to explain. My daughter cannot speak, she has no functional use of her arms or hands, and most of the time she can't hold her head up. To be able to use a communication box is such an awesome adventure and an amazing miracle that we've prayed and prayed for.

So we’ve had this communication device since last Thursday. I’ve already made the mistake of letting the battery die…. Bad Mommy! Of course that in turn caused a series of events which didn’t have to happen, and took two hours for me to correct. Good thing I’m not afraid of technology. I jumped in with both feet and got ‘er figured out.

I have been taking short videos of Emily when she uses the EyeMax. This was a good one and short enough to post on here.

Hurrah for Emily!

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I Can Do It!

Emily was selecting a movie she wanted to watch. I cannot tell you how thrilling it is to see her tell us what she wants. My heart is bursting and my eyes are watering….

She is using an Eye Max by Dynavox. This communication device is hanging on the pole. It has a screen with squares on it. With her eyes she selects the square that says Movies. It opens a new page that has several movies on it. You can't really see the pictures of her movies in this image, but she can! She just directs her eyes to the one she wants and selects it. A voice comes on and says the name of the movie.

She is SO happy. We gave her the movie she wanted right away.

Thanks for listening ~