Snakes, Lizards and Turtles, Oh My!

Ella's school was visited this week by Peter, the reptile man.  He brought lots of slithery, scaly things in for the kids to see and touch.  Ella wasn't a big fan, in fact, I pretty much had to force her hand in "petting" the blue tongue skink.  The turtle was a no go for her completely, and the poor lizard who lost his tail was way to fast for Ella to catch. 

An "Ella update" of sorts, we had a hearing test on Thursday at Children's.  The first test consisted of a probe inserted into each ear in which the movement of the eardrum is measured.  If the eardrum has measurable movement, it is said to be functioning properly and likely does not have any fluid behind it.  Unfortunately, they do one side at a time (why??).  She did well for the left, was fascinated by the doctor blowing bubbles in her face; but when it came time for the right side, there was no having that probe in her ear!  The doctor ran out of bubbles and Ella wanted nothing more than to remove that annoying probe from her right ear.  And she did, over and over and over again until finally we all gave up.  She won.  Next they did a sound booth test in which they can assess the overall hearing.  This test was smooth sailing, as she was easily entertained with the puppets popping up and making noise on her left and right sides.  She passed with flying colors, which means they were able to determine she has adequate overall hearing, but could not access each side individually.  Guess we'll try that probe thing another time...