One month ago today we welcomed Wyatt to Team Robinson. He wasn't so happy to be our number one draft pick, at least not right away.
The van hadn't made it out of the Civil Affairs parking lot before we discovered that Wyatt loved music.
Within hours his sweet, funny, loving little personality began to peek through the sadness and we saw our first smiles.
One of are our more difficult struggles with Wyatt has been communication. Wyatt is not concerned one bit about it, but I'm eager to be able to converse! Wyatt has abnormal hearing, and we don't think he can hear much of what we say. We do know that he can hear his name if we call out loudly, and he stops when I call out the word "stop". We don't know the quality of the sounds he can hear, though. We know he doesn't respond to a cowbell ringing, but he does turn his head when we clap our hands loudly or bang our hands on a table. He has a hearing aid, but every time I put it on his head, he sails it across the room. The joker's probably expensive to replace, so I just put it away for awhile.
Crazy funny story: we were eating dinner and Wyatt was slapping his hand on the table over and over again. Dean signed "wait" and Wyatt swung his head to the left, away from Daddy. I thought, "Hmmm, that's interesting. It's almost like he didn't want to see what Daddy had to say." Dean gently pulled his chin back around to look at him and Wyatt rolled his eyes as far to the left as he could, refusing to make eye contact. Oh yeah, baby boy is choosing not to see what Daddy has to say. Next, Dean put himself in Wyatt's line of vision, and what did he do? Why, he snapped his little peepers shut, just like that! I guess it's like hearing kids putting their fingers in their ears. Now, if baby boy doesn't like what you have to say, he looks up at your face, sweet as pie and all attentive like, and closes his gorgeous brown eyes. Hmmmm....now, what's a mom to do with that?
Happy one month home, Wyatt!
Within hours his sweet, funny, loving little personality began to peek through the sadness and we saw our first smiles.
The past month has flown by and Wyatt has blossomed more and more each day.
We grow more and more in LOVE with this boy every second!
One of are our more difficult struggles with Wyatt has been communication. Wyatt is not concerned one bit about it, but I'm eager to be able to converse! Wyatt has abnormal hearing, and we don't think he can hear much of what we say. We do know that he can hear his name if we call out loudly, and he stops when I call out the word "stop". We don't know the quality of the sounds he can hear, though. We know he doesn't respond to a cowbell ringing, but he does turn his head when we clap our hands loudly or bang our hands on a table. He has a hearing aid, but every time I put it on his head, he sails it across the room. The joker's probably expensive to replace, so I just put it away for awhile.
Crazy funny story: we were eating dinner and Wyatt was slapping his hand on the table over and over again. Dean signed "wait" and Wyatt swung his head to the left, away from Daddy. I thought, "Hmmm, that's interesting. It's almost like he didn't want to see what Daddy had to say." Dean gently pulled his chin back around to look at him and Wyatt rolled his eyes as far to the left as he could, refusing to make eye contact. Oh yeah, baby boy is choosing not to see what Daddy has to say. Next, Dean put himself in Wyatt's line of vision, and what did he do? Why, he snapped his little peepers shut, just like that! I guess it's like hearing kids putting their fingers in their ears. Now, if baby boy doesn't like what you have to say, he looks up at your face, sweet as pie and all attentive like, and closes his gorgeous brown eyes. Hmmmm....now, what's a mom to do with that?
Happy one month home, Wyatt!
I got chocked up seeing these pics of Wyatt. I have never seen his smile so wide and so bright. Thanks team Robinson. Lots of love!!
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