"Graham, I love You"

Whooooa.

What a day!

After nine plus years....

Our Jubilee Promise can hear!

This past week Jubilee had another appointment at the audiologists.  Her hearing loss is moderate to severe in her right ear and severe to profound in her left.  It has taken awhile to figure it all out, but finally it has been determined that if they skip the outer ear and middle ear, we can achieve hearing!  

And so this past week, Jubilee was fit with a temporary hearing device called a BAHA.

The video says it all....

Next step, is a trip to a ear surgeon's in Denver to see if she is a candidate for permanent BAHA surgery.  {Two surgeries, months apart where a titanium peg is implanted into her skull.  She needs enough bone mass to be eligible for the surgery.  We are prayerful that her microcephaly will not prohibit her from being a candidate.  So tests, tests and more tests and expert weigh-in....but for now - she can hear us!!}

When we got home sporting her BAHA on her headband Graham was not home.

The next morning he said, "What's Jubilee wearing?"  

I told him.  

Instantly Graham turned around.  

I wondered what he was doing.

The other kids were working and talking...so the room was far from silent.

He was about 20 feet from her and since he had turned around she could not see his mouth.  

Quietly he said, 

"Jubilee, I love you."  

And from across the room, unbeknownst to her 

that he was about to 'test' her, she spoke up, 

"Graham, I love you."  

Four of the most precious words on the entire earth!

Oh my.

She can truly hear!!

We are overjoyed at what this means....

and rejoice that she is home with us and we live in America 

where we were able to discover her hearing loss

and do something about it!!

Gracious God how we praise YOUR name!!

"God places the lonely in families; 

he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy"

Psalm 68:6a