Saturday

We went up and visited Christie today and received an awesome surprise. She said HI when we walked in. It was very faint and it sounded like a whisper but she said it. Then for awhile we couldnt hear her. She asked why we couldnt hear her so we explained that her throat is hurt so we cant hear her...we are reading her lips. She said Oh, I see! Im sure she has been told that before but she forgets. Then later, she actually said Ball. Again it was faint but clear as a bell. So we started picking up objects and encouraging her to say it. So we HEARD her say...HI...BALL...PHONE...PEN. she tried to sat horse but some words dont come out right. I also took out my cell phone and took a picture of her. I showed it to her and she said it was a bad picture of her and to do it again. I ended up taking like 10 pictures and she didnt like any of them. Then she took the phone and asked me how to do it. I showed her and even with her unsteady hand, she took a picture of me, looked at it, then ACTUALLY laughed. I was centered in the picture and everything. She asked me to paint her toenails blue and asked her dad to buy her blue flip flops. So we got that stuff and will bring it tomorrow. She did say some repetitive odd things today. She kept saying her shoes ran away. We thought we misunderstood her but then she wrote it. She does think she is 14. We told her she is 16 and she said where did the other two years go. But when we asked her where she lived she wrote "Florida...I think" She had a sense of humor today....laughed alot. Cant wait until tomorrow!!