Arden gave Brian and I a big scare this past month. She had a very high fever about 6 weeks ago (105.) After this she became very hard of hearing. We were constantly having to repeat ourselves, and she couldn't hear us when we were calling her. We weren't sure if she was just going through a phase of "selective hearing," if she had an ear infection, or if the high fever/infection had done some permanent hearing damage. I took her to the pediatrician and the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with her. He said her ears looked fine and recommended that we see an audiologist and ENT. After going through an extensive hearing test (which she failed by the way,) and seeing the ENT, it turns out that she had fluid and a lot of pressure behind her ear drums. Ugh, I was so frustrated that the pediatrician didn't notice the fluid at her appointment, but relieved that it was something easily treatable.
Anyway, I'm now getting to my point of this post. I joked with Arden that we were going to have to teach her sign language and began to show her how to sign the letters of the alphabet. She took to that really fast and learned the alphabet very quickly. Here she is doing the alphabet.
Halle also loves to teach Arden. She has taught her how to count backwards, count by twos, by fives, and even a little addition. Then at the end of the video you do see she has "selective hearing" after all. Ha!
You should post a "Look How Smart Arden Is" once a week. It motivates me to teach Colton :) LOVE how she tunes you out when she is done!
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