We committed some serious voter fraud last night: I held the wee one’s fist carefully as we together marked the ballot for our primary candidate of choice, and in full view of many smiling Massachusetts voting officials, a little Chinese citizen cast her ballot. And no one locked us up! History in the making (on multiple levels)!
06 Feb
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This past week we celebrated our anniversary with Li-Li (homecoming day was February 8th), Chinese New Year, and Li-Li’s 2nd Birthday (February 10th)! Photos below are from our little party at The Learning Center for the Deaf, with Li-Li’s wonderful teacher, Susan!
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LiLi’s Mom…
I saw your posting on other blogs and thought I would check your blog. Wow…you are truly an amazing parents and LiLi is a beautiful girl. From the photos I can tell that she is living a full life. You have her in the right place at the Learning Center and giving LiLi the opportunity to be raised bi-lingual is making sure that she captures the full language access. I hope that LiLi will have much success with her cochlear implant and if not…she has ASL to fall back on and loses no time in her learning proccess. I was raised bi-lingually and although I hear well to function in the hearing world…because my first language is ASL (my parents are deaf) I am more at home in my deaf world and loving it. You are right…there are many many many more deaf people like Lauren Ridloff who is intellegent, articulate, well rounded and brilliantly successful in every aspect. They’re not all blogging or vlogging but they are out there in the world!
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Hello Divided, I feel almost as though I know you from your comments elsewhere as well! Thank you so much for your kind words of encouragement! I agree with you entirely (and envy your fluency in ASL, lucky CODA! I’m always going to have that dreaded hearing accent when I sign).
I guess after a year I can no longer claim to be a new mom, and yet I still feel like I’m navigating through unknown territory every day, whether it be decisions around what diaper, vegetable, and vitamins or educational paths, language models, and medical issues. It’s great to see examples of how theory translates into practice, and see that there are lots of great options — no one right path.
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Funny that you called me a CODA…smile. Audiologically speaking, I am hard of hearing (50 db loss in right ear and 55 db loss in left ear). With hearing aid I hear quite well and can use the phone with most anybody without much trouble although I get some numbers and words confused now and then. A woman I met last night asked at the table in restaurant (she is hard of hearing person of deaf parents but married to hearing man attended hearing school all her life) said that I was not deaf but hard of hearing. I told her I consider myself deaf because I am culturally deaf…I am married to hard of hearing man too but we communicate using ASL most of the time and our “world” meaning that we have deaf friends and attend deaf functions now and then so therefore, I say I am deaf. It was an interesting dialog between us and I am more “at home” signing. Then she said that I speak so well and found it odd that I call myself deaf but the difference between her and me is that I attended deaf college and my world is “deaf” whereas, she attended hearing college and her world is “hearing”. hummm, just me reflecting on what happened yesterday. hummm…