Playing the flute

Yesterday, her sister, Sanne came home with a recorder and enjoyed playing on it. That was enough motivation for Lotte to find one herself and blow on it as well. In no time the house was filled with random notes... most of them false.
My wife helped Sanne to play a tune. She closed the holes, while Sanne blew. This went fine, and of course, Lotte also wanted to do this. And this went GREAT!! She blew at the correct intervals, excellent timing. She picked it up from her sister and repeated it without problems.

Couldn't resist putting this picture here. She collapsed the day before, being dead-tired and dirty as a pig... This was the result when she came down the next morning....

Good Morning !!!

(AllDeaf)

New kindergarten / Preschool

As mentionned before, Lotte "grew" a lot during the holidays. A lot can be contributed to being in an all-dutch environment with little to no signs.

2 Weeks ago she went to an all-hearing kindergarten for 3 days in the week. This went very well. No problems adjusting. She's enjoying it tremendously.

It was funny that on the second day, one of the teachers said that Lotte used sign which - off course - they don't understand. There was no frustration from Lottes side that se was not understood.
I asked them what she signed, and it was "home". Then I turned to Lotte, and asked her... what is "this" - making the sign for home, and she immediately replied - for the teacher to hear - "home"... This showed that she was just tired and didn't want to speak. And it showed in a nutshell that she's at the right place. In the other kindergarten people would have understood her. Here, Lotte will have to speak in order to be understood.

In two weeks we can see the improvement in her speech. It's difficult to determine if it's due to more hearing-environment, but the progress is there.
(AllDeaf)