Let the games begin...again.

Since Chance has siblings, each one has had to come to the realization that Chance can't hear squat when his implants are not on. His sister was fascinated with the implants for a while and would take them off . Then she went through a stage where she would get frustrated and say, "Chance is not listening to me!" when she tried to talk to him first thing in the morning. It took a while before we convinced her that when Chance took off his implants, it was like taking off his ears. Nothing she said would make a dent until those implants were on.

Now Chance's baby brother is wondering why usually attentive Chance sometimes pays him no mind at all.
We were in the van coming home late at night, and Chance gave us him implants to hold. This is one of those times when being able to tune out the world sounds rather delightful. When you are ready to doze off, just take off the ears.

Anyway, Chance's baby brother sits next to Chance in the van and had something of vital importance for Chance to hear. First, he called Chance's name. Chance and his baby brother are little buddies so for Chance not to respond took him off guard. We suddenly heard this little voice from the back seat growing ever louder as he called, "Chance." CHANCE!" I turned to see my littlest boy in the half light staring at Chance and yelling his name. Chance meanwhile had his eyes closed and was quite unaware that there was any sound going on in the world at all.

His baby brother is not old enough yet to grasp that some people can't hear. We tried to tell him that Chance could not hear him. He only looked at us and went back to calling Chance's name.

Chance is innocently unaware that his siblings go a little loopy when they call and call and he doesn't respond. He just goes about his business as usual.

I'm sure we'll encounter more situations like the one in the van before his baby brother can understand that Chance really can not hear much if his implants are not on. Chalk it up to one of those hard learned lessons of childhood.