What? How frustrating ⇒

Elise is having trouble hearing. It seems like it is just a problem with wax buildup (our Doctor couldn’t even see her inner ear) and hopefully when we get the wax looked after her hearing will be fine. Don’t get me wrong, I feel for her but it is SO FRUSTRATING constantly hearing “What?” all day long.

What a terrible mother I am. Elise should be the one who is frustrated but between her hearing impairment and the normal four and two year old selective hearing tendency and Daniella has picked up on the “What?” habit as well I feel like I spend my whole day repeating myself - sometimes two or three times before they “hear” me. By the time I get through, I’ve had to apologize for shouting because I’m really trying to project my voice so they’ll hear which admittedly sounds angry. Sometimes they say “what?” so quickly I think maybe they’re not waiting for what I’m saying to register in their little brains before responding.

grrrrr.