All Ears

For those of you who don't know, here's a little update on what's going on with this boy.

Old picture, I really need to take the time to pull out my real camera more often!

Back in April I blogged about how Elijah was pretty behind on talking.  You can see that post here.  At the time, we knew he was behind because he is learning multiple languages, but we also think it's his personality, since he's more of a reserved/analytical type rather than a dare devil....usually :)

Anyway, he is now going on 2 and still hasn't made much progress speaking.  He says has about 7 words in his dailly vocabulary, but some of those include "woah" and "oh-uh" etc. and words only we understand.  We do think his personality is a major factor, since there are many words that he has said (ball, car, moo, quack, etc) multiple times but chooses not to use daily....only very randomly when he wants.  And I've even tried unsuccessfully to bribe him with chocolate to get him to say them, but nope...only when he's in the mood.

So, at his most recent doctor's appointment we brought up our concern about whether he might also have trouble hearing.  We brought him to get tested and found out that he has what is probably chronic fluid/inflammation in his ears.  So, he has not been hearing well on top of the whole multiple languages and personality issues.  Poor guy, the cards are really stacked against him on this one!

We are currently trying one more round of antibiotics (he has recently had several) to clear out his ears, and if not, he will likely have tubes put in.  What a medical year it has been for all of us!!!  But we don't mind the idea of tubes.  At this point, I"m almost hoping for them since it will rule out the possibility of the cycle repeating itself.  But we'll see.  Next week he will go for another hearing test and and we'll take it from there!