We just saw Chronicles of Narnia!

Amazing, amazing, amazing. Unbelievable! What a beautiful movie. The picture above is a Walt Disney Pictures photo by Phil Bray, found at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/12/09/DDG9QG4FJS1.DTL&o=0&type=movies .

And even more unreal is that we made it through the movie with all of the boys! No potty breaks, Josh "behaved". We wanted to bring Matt's FM system for him to maybe help him hear better, forgot. But we ended up sitting up front and Matt says he heard pretty well. Now he wants us to go buy the books. :)

Without giving too much away, I can say the opening battle scene was so beautiful, I almost cried.

What does this have to do with our "CI journey"? I don't know. We are very fortunate that we live with the boys' CIs, but they've become such a part of our lives we don't think about them so much any more. We just go to movies, pizza, book stores, sports, everything else like every other family. Sure we work on therapy, have to maintain the equipment. Two of our boys are deaf, but they sure love sound. Pretty cool.

Oh, here's a CI moment tonight, speaking of equipment. Matt was wearing his BTE. Usually we carry an extra battery "just in case" his battery dies, but this time we had forgotten the spare. Matt had the same battery on since early this morning, and it was quite an old battery. Good news is his battery didn't loose power until just after we left the theater at 5:30 p.m., yeah! A CI user's battery usage will differ according to the power needed to run a specific program, I think. We absolutely LOVE the power and reliability of the rechargeables, Matt seems to get quite a bit of time out of each one.