Various Things About Us

I really have no news to blog about. I just keep thinking I should blog since I started this thing, and I'm sure all two of you are bored with me by now! I keep trying to come up with topics, but either 1) they seem too boring or 2) Steve has already stolen the topic from me! He's better at keeping up with blogging than I am.

So, here's the rundown of our lives....

We had great fun with our hurricane evacuees from Tyler. We had a roomful of 25 year old girls at our house. We stayed up way too late and ate way too much ice cream. It was great. Thanks for coming, girls!

Ben is loving second grade and doing a great job. He is still taking karate and loving it.

Drew is also doing well at school, but he doesn't understand that we have to go to school everyday for the rest of the school year. He really liked summer! He's done with karate and looking forward to t-ball in the spring. UGH.

Steve is returning from a quick training trip in Indiana. He's dreaming big and is going to train pastors in India. Wow.

I'm digging into school this year. Got lots of kids. One is particularly interesting. She is five years old and she is deaf. She is also blind. She is also not verbal. She also lives in a Spanish speaking home.

The good thing is that she can hear a little with a cochlear implant. However she is due for a doctor's appointment and I think her device might need a little work. She can also see a little out of one eye. I'm not really sure how much.

I think that she is probably smart. She is catching on to routines and she doesn't get upset too much....She gets upset only when her implant seems not to work and only when we didn't know that her device had volume control and every time it broke we were suppose to turn down the volume.

The next two days I am happily going to a workshop to learn how to teach kids with implants. I can't wait to find out what I wish I had known about 3 weeks ago!!!