Michael at 8 months old

Michael is now 8 months old! He finally cooperated at the ENT last Monday where they tried for a third time to do a hearing test in the sound booth. After having the tube put in his left ear three weeks ago, they tested his hearing at his follow-up visit. He sat on my lap in the sound booth as the technician spoke into a microphone and put on different sounds to see how he would respond. Although he doesn't have hearing in his right ear, they said he is in the "normal" range for his overall hearing! This is great news!! They said he will probably always have trouble being able to tell where sound is coming from, because he only has one ear. Even in the sound booth he would turn the opposite way that the sound was coming from about half of the time, but he was still responding to sound.

Michael now has 5 teeth. He doesn't really like playing with baby toys but loves shoelaces, string, and the plastic container that holds the baby wipes. He is now crawling all over the place. It doesn't seem to matter where I put him down, he usually ends up under the kitchen table scavengering for anything to put in his mouth (which isn't hard to find when you have a 2 year old around).

He can crawl really well now and can go from sitting to crawling and back to sitting again. I even found him standing up next to a chair a few days ago!

He is extremely ticklish and loves to laugh at his sister Kaitlyn. He loves baby food now, too!