Interesting

I had two interesting "cleft experiences" this week. The first one was during nap time, flipping through the channels, I happened to catch a few minutes of Dr. Phil. I noticed the woman on there had a cleft lip repair (and boy did she have ISSUES!) I listened to her for a few minutes and she sounded absolutely perfect, nothing wrong with her speech. I wondered if she had a cleft palate as well. Finally she told Dr. Phil she was born with a cleft lip and palate. That made me feel great that her speech was so good, since that is what I'm probably the most concerned about - other than his surgery. I shouldn't say I'm too concerned though, since the surgeon and speech therapist assure me that eventually no one will ever know anything was wrong.

The second thing happened at Chick fil A on Thursday night. Ken was gone on a business trip this week (left me alone with these hooligans!) so on Thursday night I took them there for supper and for them to wear themselves out in the play area. Leo was in the stroller at our table and this adorable little 3 year old Asian girl kept coming over to him. She walked right up to him and started playing with him and they both had huge smiles on their faces. I tried to ask her a few questions but she didn't answer. She did sign "baby" and point to him with a big smile on her face. I said, "Do you like babies?" and she nodded emphatically "yes!" Then I noticed that she had a cleft lip repair. I asked her dad sitting at the next table if she had also had a cleft palate. He said yes. She was adopted at 18 months from China, and had her repair at 20 months. I asked him about the surgery and told him Leo would have his in 4-5 months. He said she came through it with flying colors and it wasn't a bad recovery at all. That made me feel good too! They were so cute together. It was like they had a little connection. So so sweet.