Micah's iPod

On Wednesday Micah and I dropped Thea off at school and made a quick stop to pick up drycleaning and get a cup of coffee (for me,he has plenty of energy w/o caffeine) before heading home for oursession with Ela, his teacher from Summit Speech School. We were in line at Dunkin Donuts with two people behind us, a lady behind me and a man behind her. The guy starts talking to the lady, commenting on it's a shame that children are using iPods that young.

It absolutely floored me that he was within four or five feet of me and felt it was appropriate to make comments, not to me, but to some random person in line - and all within my hearing, and before I got my coffee which would greatly enhance my ability to answer civilly. Instead of verbally eviscerating this twit, I screwed on my best smile and turned to him and said that the band on Micah's head was NOT an iPod, it was a hearing aid and if he looked just a little closer he could see that Micah's ears are not quite normal and thereis no ear canal. Then I turned back and placed my coffee order. I could have almost steamed my own latte.

What annoyed me is that if he would have spoken to me directly instead of just running off at the mouth, I would have been more than happy to explain. Why couldn't he just wait and talk behind my back and beyond the range of my hearing like a civilized person? Who in the world would think a parent would put an iPod-like device on a 20-month old anyway? What did he think Micah was listening to? Baby Mozart? Pink? Yanni? No apology offered by the motor mouth, BTW.

Still no photos of Micah with his BAHA, the one I took last weekend was a little blurred. Eventually. . .


Lydia