Chance has started responding to things we say when we haven't even been talking to him. This is just not something that we are used to. We are used to having to make an effort to have Chance hear us. It used to be that if it was time for dinner, we made a personal invitation to Chance as he was still sitting and playing cars after his siblings had run to the table. Now, Chance is hearing more and more things on his own and just responding appropriately.
The other night we had my mom over for dinner. We mentioned that the baby was still hungry and that we should get him a banana. Then we went on talking for a minute. The next thing we knew, Chance was standing next to us with a banana for the baby. Chance was not even at the table when we had the banana discussion. He just overheard us. Wow. Chance is over hearing us! I guess the days are gone when we can talk about his birthday present when we are across the room from him. He might hear us!
Chance also is quite aware of the value of two implants. He never wants to have just one on anymore. And he never wants to take them off unless he is doing cartwheels or something when the risk of them flying off are high. Chance used to bring me his implant when he was at gymnastics. He would tell me that his implant was falling off. Of course with all of the flipping, jumping and rolling it makes sense. Now he has two implants to account for and he takes them off even less than before. I don't know if Chance just adapted better, or if he just can't stand not hearing what is going on, but I have noticed that he hardly ever brings me his implants anymore during gymnastics. He just keeps them on. I saw him hand them to his teacher once when he was doing somersaults down the mat. (I wonder if she realizes that she holds the equivalent of $10,000.00 in her hands when he hands them to her:) But he immediately put them back on when he was through. He used to not wear his implants during gymnastics hardly at all. I think that Chance has really taken to this hearing business and does not want to interrupt the flow of sound unless it is absolutely necessary.
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