Mommy wasn’t sure what to expec, t today when it came to the Special Care program appointment. According to the website: The Pediatric Special Care Program provides coordinated, cost-effective, and family-centered health care services for children and teens with developmental disabilities Read More
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
August 22nd, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Although I would not be headed into surgery until close to 11:30 we were supposed to report to the hospital at 8:00 am. So my parents and I got up and got ready. As we headed out of Ronald McDonald House, I had my princess purse slung over my shoulder. We had a few minutes to spare, so Read More
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
August 17th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
After all the stress, testing and transition meetings today was the big day. Finally, I have an IEP and I will be attending the oral/spoken language preschool with Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind. There are still a few things to work out – the biggest being getting a nurse assigned Read More
Posted in Baha |
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
August 13th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Despite hitting, kicking and generally terrorizing the dogs at every turn I really do love my furry brothers and (surprisingly) they still love me (okay not all the time but most of the time). Daddy took the day off to take me to my retesting appointment for the school district. Without a Read More
Posted in Baha |
Friday, August 6th, 2010
August 8th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Mommy called the representative at Canyons School District today to get some more information. When they retest me next week they will use a different test and it will be administered by a speech pathologist. Had I been one percentile lower last time I was tested I would have qualified so if I Read More
Posted in Baha |
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
August 8th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Mommy has been looking forward to today’s appointment – my speech and feeding evaluation. Finally, I am getting some formal speech therapy! My feeding therapist in California did some great work over the last year but now I am going to have the opportunity to have someone devote Read More
Posted in Baha |
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
August 8th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
A note from Mommy: Driving home tonight, an unknown number came up no my cell phone. With my cell phone number being the contact for all things Peyton, it wasn’t unusual so I answered. I was just pulling up in the drive way to pick her up from work, and as I answered the phone I could Read More
Posted in Baha |
Thursday, July 28th, 2010
July 31st, 2010 by T & t + 3!
At Grandma and Grandpa’s house tonight for dinner I played with cousin Traiton and Uncle Jason. You can see I am helping out with the hammer on the lawn chair. I have some exciting news. Today in the mail Mommy received the trach cap she had ordered last week. So when she got me in the Read More
Posted in Baha |
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
July 25th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
It’s been a couple of busy days. On Tuesday night, Brandy from Maxim came by to do the acuity assessment to determine if I qualify for additional nursing hours through Medicaid. Since we still had the plan of treatment from the Maxim nurses in California it was a pretty short meeting. On Read More
Posted in Baha, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
June 18th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Although it will only be in effect for a month, Mommy still needed to meet with the local school district to sign an IFSP – Individualized Family Service Plan. I have had IFSP’s for every six months since I came home from the hospital but as of next month, I am offically Read More
Posted in Baha |
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
June 16th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Despite their best efforts, I have been waking up around 3 am every morning. By the time Mommy hears me on the monitor I have been crying for awhile and am pretty wound up. Once Mommy gets in my bed with me it takes me a long time to fall back to sleep – and Mommy is virtually a zombie at Read More
Posted in Baha |
Friday, May 28th, 2010
May 30th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Mommy, Grandma and I met with Emilie from the Utah Schools for The Deaf and Blind today to get some more questions answered about the programs. Daddy, Grandma and I will visit each preschool on Tuesday to help determine which path I should take – ASL or spoken language/listening skills. Read More
Posted in Baha |
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
May 29th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Today was my first step in transitioning to preschool in Utah. It was my evaluation with Early Intervention. I like to make things a little difficult for everyone so as of tomorrow I am officially in the 90 day transition from Early Intervention to preschool. To complicate things further, Read More
Posted in Baha |
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
May 22nd, 2010 by T & t + 3!
My night went pretty well – just a tiny bit of O2 for a few hours to bring me up from the mid 80’s on my sats to mid 90’s. Then it was back to room air and I was in the low 90’s which the doctor’s were happy with. This morning the doctors came by early to let me Read More
Posted in Baha, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Monday, May 17th, 2010
May 20th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
It was a pretty busy day today what with Mommy going back to work in the office, a doctor’s appointment and soccer in the evening. So Mommy worked a little in the morning and then Grandma, Mommy and I went out to the Primary Children’s Outpatient Clinic at Riverton Hospital for my Read More
Posted in Baha |
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
May 13th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Tonight was my first soccer class at the Eccles Field House on the U campus. Daddy had to work late, so Mommy and I headed out on our own. Cousin Jackson had signed up too but as he is recovering from an ear infection he stayed home tonight. Mommy was not expecting how difficult it would be to Read More
Posted in Baha, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
May 10th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Now that I’ve finally caught you up on what has been going on in our lives, I can share a picture with you of the house my parents are in the process of purchasing. It is plenty big for us and really close to both sets of grandparents. It was empty for over a year and the yard needs a lot Read More
Posted in Baha |
Friday, May 7th, 2010
May 7th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Daddy and I Pandy, Henry and Chili watching me nap Uncle Jeff on Donner’s Pass Yes I know, I have taken a very long break from blogging. Well a lot has happened in the last few weeks that I can now catch you up on. My life has changed dramatically and in lots of great ways. The biggest Read More
Posted in Baha |
Friday, March 26th, 2010
March 28th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
There are a lot of strange happenings going on in the Smith household these days. For those of you in on the secret, you’ll hear more over the next month. For those of you not in on the secret, I promise all will be revealed soon! (No, I am not going to be a big sister!) Today I had a Read More
Posted in Baha |
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
March 28th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Mommy has never claimed to be a pro in the hairstyle department. As I got older and my hair got longer Mommy started to pull it back then on to pig tails and occasionally a ponytail. So when the nurses want to experiment on my hair that is right up Mommy’s alley. You can see above how Read More
Posted in Baha, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
March 4th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
A note from Mommy: Today I ordered a custom t shirt for Peyton. Zazzle.com and Cafepress.com have some cute tshirts already designed with sayings about trachs, g tubes and all other things medical. Although many were funny, I decided to create one of my own sayings and put it on a pink t shirt. Read More
Posted in Baha |
Monday, March 1st, 2010
March 3rd, 2010 by T & t + 3!
So my parents should have guessed that my transition from the crib to the toddler bed went way too easily! Now, many months later it is coming back to bite them. I am definately going through a phase in regards to my sleeping (or should I say lack there of). In the last few weeks it has Read More
Posted in Baha, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
February 28th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
It’s official we are now suffering from MTS in our household. MTS is short for multiple tank syndrome. Several weeks back we discovered we had two fish babies. One managed to make it in the tank for a few days the other close to a week. Although we would like to believe they passed away Read More
Posted in Baha |
Friday, February 26th, 2010
February 28th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
It’s been a long week with Mommy out of town. She left Monday afternoon to go to Salt Lake for work and didn’t get back until last night. Daddy has done a great job of taking care of me and made sure I got time to talk to Mommy in the morning after I woke up and at night before bed Read More
Posted in Baha, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
February 17th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
A note from Mommy: A community that excludes even one member is no community at all. Dan Wilkins Tonight I started discussions with the local school district on where Peyton best belongs when she has the option to attend preschool this summer. The transition from the infant program to preschool Read More
Posted in Baha |
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
February 12th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
These were the last photos taken on my parents digital camera before I got angry, threw it and broke it. Luckily, I only broke the cover to the lens and the camera can still take pictures and video or else the blog would be pictureless for a while. I had a great feeding session today and tried Read More
Posted in ASL, Baha, Speech |
Monday, February 8th, 2010
February 10th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
My parents tried to distract me tonight before brushing my teeth by asking me to recite numbers 1 -10. Mommy would show me the ASL sign for each number in order and I covered my trach and off we went! Some numbers came out clearly and others were a little harder to understand but there was no Read More
Posted in ASL, Baha |
Friday, February 5th, 2010
February 6th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
It’s been almost two years since my parents donated some of my blood for testing to the University of Washington. At the time, they had identified a particular gene that they thought may be related to Nager Syndrome. We recently received a letter letting us know that the research studies Read More
Posted in Baha, Hearing Loss, Non-Deaf/HOH Topic |
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
February 6th, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Earlier in the week I met Linda and she did a feeding evaluation on me. Today, we returned for my speech evaluation. Lucille had to leave early for the day so it was just me and Mommy and Linda. I got a few minutes of play time while Mommy caught Linda up on my past (short) history of talking. Read More
Posted in Baha, Music, Speech |
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
February 1st, 2010 by T & t + 3!
Just one of those lazy days at home today. We ran a few errands together as a family and then all five of us got naps in at some point during the day. Good thing, it will be a busy week for me with a feeding evaluation on Monday, a visit to the ENT on Tuesday and two therapy appointments at Read More
