My wish and hope and prayer for Quincie in 2012 and beyond :) is that she will want to connect via communication. With her family. With friends. With the world around her.
Because that's the real trick, isn't it? Finding a way to convince this little person who spent her formative years oblivious to it, and truthfully has since existed quite well without it, that communication is worth it. That language is a treasure and communication is the prize...if she will just put enough effort into it.
She has to believe it. She has to want it. She has to deem it important and beneficial and worthy enough to try. Please try Q-Baby. Please, please try! :)
I want to communicate with my daughter. I want our relationship to blossom and grow and grow and GROW. I don't want to feel stuck anymore.
I never dreamed another year would pass and I would be writing the same thing. That hopefully next year will be the year that my Quincie grasps language and learns to communicate.
Its hard to be here, in this place.
Still, 2011 has been a watershed year. We were told in 2008 that our daughter would never hear. In 2011 we have witnessed the miracle of her responding to sound. Responding to our voices. Responding to her name.
I was truly beginning to wonder if Quincie would ever understand the concept of names. That people and places and things have names. That she has a name. Now absolutely beaming she quite proudly, even emphatically, beats the letter Q into her chest (her sign name), and whirls around when we call out her spoken name. I cannot express in mere words what a nothing short of wondrous event this is. :)
We marvel at this daughter of ours who, a short few months ago, couldn't seem to remember how to count to five now counts to twenty five. WOW!
We rejoice in those holy grail moments when Quincie does communicate with us through language. They are few and far between, but they have come to pass.
We see a spark that wasn't there before. I will forever be convinced, whether she ever speaks orally or not, that HEARING IS THE BRIDGE. It has finally connected her to the busy and noisy world around her. It has awakened something within her that lay dormant for years, or simply wasn't there before. HEARING IS THE MIRACLE GIFT. It might have come too late to afford her spoken language, but it is still the gateway to communication for my Q.
Signed or spoken, may 2012 build upon the miracles of 2011, and may I finally be able to communicate fully with my Q-Baby. :) Here's hoping we can POP! that beautiful bubble too. I love you Q! And with God's perfect lens, no matter what. :) Post 7 of 7
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