Monday 23rd May - Can you guess who it is yet?

Monday 23rd May - Can you guess who it is yet?, originally uploaded by sparklingbizzy.

Stripyzebra tagged me on a meme that is going around just now. It’s not a frivolous meme, it’s an important one for Save The Children’s No Child Born To Die campaign. The charity want people to sign their petition to put pressure on world leaders attending the World Economic Forum in June to fund vaccinations for all children. To protect, save 4 million children from diseases like measles that are preventable.

Three bloggers are visiting Mozambique and following a box of vaccines from arriving in the country to reaching their destined children. And lots of other bloggers are raising awareness by asking their children to draw a picture of what they’d like to be when they grow up.

Eleanor's picture is of Upsy Daisy. As she's deaf it was hard to explain to her that I wanted her to draw a picture of herself. I showed her a picture of herself but she just went and got an ITNG comic and started to copy Upsy Daisy. Now I don't know if that's how she sees herself now or in the future you can draw you're own conclusions but her art has come on so much recently that this is only the second time she's drawn something which shares a bit of resemblence for the object she's copying. This is a massive developmental step forwards for us.

Linda aka stripyzebra tagged me in this meme and I’m now asking some mummy blogger friends to Pass It On and raise awareness of this petition.

The rules are:

1) Get your child to either draw or craft a self portrait of themselves now or in the future, perhaps imagining what they will look like or what they might do. Check out Red Ted Art (who is now running a blog hop) post on self portrait to get started!

2) Sign the Save the Children petition and share news of it with your friends.

3) Write a blog post about it as soon as possible, featuring your children’s pictures and perhaps how you made them together, and including info about Save the Children and the petition. We want as many people linked up AND signed up the petition by Sunday 29th May 2011

4) Tag 8 blogging friends to do the same – #passiton! If you want to join in and I’ve not tagged you, please do!

5) Come back and link up your posts, either at Sleep is for the Weak or over at Red Ted Art, so we can all see each other’s posts and if you have time, go and leave some comment love on each others posts! It’s a blog-hop link-up so you can even publish the list of entries on your blog (like I have below).

My eight lovely bloggers:

1. It's all about the photos

2. Booby and the beads

3. Muddling along mummy

4. Clare's Diary

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6.

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okay 4 are to follow but I'm working on finding more bloggers!

11th May 2011 - The Cochlear Implant Centre

I haven't blogged for a while as time has gotten the better of me again.

Since I last wrote we've been to the Yorkshire Cochlear Implant Centre 3 times.  We've now had 2 hearing tests and a consultation with the consultant.

we are no nearer to a decision as Eleanor isn't interested in doing more hearing tests but the clock yes the NHS timeline clock is ticking and hopefully soon she will allow them to have all the data that they need and then we'll move on to decision time.

We're awaiting a date for a CT or MRI scan depending on which they decide to go with and we're going for another hearing test in June.

So we continue on our mission and will get to a decision at some point soon I hope.

In the meantime we continue to practice how to do a hearing test and hope that she gets the hang of it soon.

Next week is all change for me as I'm going back to work on Monday!