A Boy That Can Hear

         I know I need a better title for this entry. Maybe I will think of one later or maybe not? If there is any wrong spellings on here without me noticing sorry it has been a day for me with spelling. We don't like each other today for some reason. Anyways, I was going to write this entry in my children blog but my computer is being dumb and I need to write it now so I'm going to write it here. Ok? Ok. It is about one of my little boys at work again and the change he has gone through just in the past 2 or 3 weeks.
         When I started this job, I had this little boy in the infant room but then not long after he moved up to the toddlers room now so I have him again. Just seeing the changes he is going through is amazing, even for a "normal" little boy surgery can be so good. He had a hard time talking and relating to his friends. He would cry non-stop upon hours and hours. We just thought he wasn't ready to talk yet and that he was sleepy so that was why he was crying non stop. Well, we were wrong and it was amazing to see the outcome and see what assumptions can do to a person and a child if you aren't careful.
         He was first having drs. appointments for I didn't know what back then so I just through them off like no big deal or at least hoping they weren't. The next thing I know his mom comes in one morning are says "He will be gone on this such day to go get surgery." Then I started to ask a few questions about what for. She told me it was just to put tubes in his ears. Then again I thought no big deal, there is nothing to that. You know no big change right away or anything like that. Well, once again I was wrong.
         The first day he was back and that our Spanish teacher came he copied and listened to every word she said and that was a first so that is when I started to figure out the tubes are going to help. Then some days went by and I really think about watching him closer but then another co-worker said something that made me think last week and made me excited. The co-worker was talking to the little boy and said, "don't grow up", just kidding around. She said that because you could actually understand the words that were coming out of his month. He was actually talking. Yeah, it was and still is simple words like "no" and his friends' names but it is a start.
           Paying closer attention to him now, I realized that he doesn't cry as often either if it is hard to understand or really is sleepy. If he really is sleepy, he will just almost fall asleep without saying anything so we have to watch him on that. It is a lot quieter in the classroom without his screaming and crying but it makes me think. I could have treated him a lot better and slow to get stressed if I knew what was really going on with him. From this I have learned that I do need to be more involved in the children's lives especially if they are having a lot of drs. appointments or are really sick. I need to ask more questions so I know how to treat the child during the day.
           There is this little girl that I have too that I just learned has really bad allergies and is taking meds for them too. When she is crying, maybe her allergies are bothering her. Maybe she doesn't like the outside that much because it makes her allergies worse? Just thinking about how much you have to learn about the children you are taking care of, makes me think about my own children.
           I will still have a lot to learn everyday even though I will be around them everyday. That never gets old because that is one of life's many adventures. We just have to know who to ask the questions to and talk about them to. For me, that tells me right there that God will have to take care of my children and give me the wisdom for me. I will never be able to do it on my own and I was silly to ever think that. We HAVE TO, HAVE TO STOP with the assumptions because they get us nowhere in life.