Wednesday Triptych

Good news on the answering machine: Micah's service coordinator at Early Intervention called today. The application for the second BAHA has been mailed. It gets sent in to "the State" whoever or whatever that is.

Please let the bean-counting, penny-pinching faceless bureaucrat be in a good mood when the envelope arrives in his or her in-box. Light candles, sacrifice chickens, make offerings to the deity of your choice, keep a good thought, Mama wants a BAHA approval in time for Christmas.

And if approved, I then want JFK to order it quickly, Cochlear to send it via overnight express (the company charges enough for the damn thing, it can spring for FedEx, dammit.)

And I want our audiologist not to be taking any time off if and when the approval comes through so she can order it and get it on Micah ASAP.

I know I want a lot, but Micah deserves it.

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Meanwhile back at the ranch, my Kodak Easyshare printer is only printing half of the pictures and the help page on Kodak's web site and http://www.fixya.com/ were more or less useless. Someone put in the suggestion to unplug it for awhile, as if that is somehow a magic bullet. Duh, tried that one myself before even going on-line to look for answers or suggestions. May that twit's email inbox be deluged with Viagra-by-mail and penis enhancement spam forevermore.

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After group at Summit School today, Micah and I went to visit Marleen and Aliya. Marleen and Pete were in our first adoption travel group, and their daughter Kitty is a few weeks younger than Thea. Pete just came back from Kyrgystan with Aliya who is now seven months old.

Micah was quite taken with Marleen, behaved well around baby Aliya and was quite intimidated by Boomer and Sweet Pea, the two English setters. Who as dogs go are total pussycats - they napped in the sunroom while Micah played with their dog toys. The baby is adorable and just happy to crawl and roll around the floor amusing herself. When I said it was time for us to leave, Micah pulled his "almost all done" routine and then patted Marleen on her thigh for emphasis. He managed to scam several stuffed animals from her, so it was an all around good afternoon for him, even though he got shorted on nap time.