Recent Happenings!

I had a huge gap in postings so here is a short recap of what our summer has been looking like as far as every day life!

Blair got a new job back in May on the complete opposite side of Lafayette from where he was, which also means on the complete opposite side of town from Nini's house. So unfortunately, after 2.5 wonderful years of Hunter staying at Nini's house during the day, we had to make a move for both boys, for logistical reasons only. So Hunter and Harrison started at a new daycare in Broussard called Buttons and Bubbles. It was not an easy adjustment for Hunter, he asked for Nini a lot and even this morning mentioned going to her house, which he hadn't done in a while. But it's been good for him, it's been a growing experience for us all. Speaking of growing, Harrison is growing like a weed! Not to mention he started crawling and pulling up on everything this summer. But Buttons and Bubbles will also soon be in the past because both boys started at an in home sitter in New Iberia today. And as crazy as this seems, the in home sitter lives in the house that we lived in when I was born. Talk about going back in time many many (too many to count) years ago! Hunter will only be there a week because... drum roll please.... he is starting Pre K 3 at St. Edward's school in New Iberia!! When we went to buy school uniforms a few weeks ago, I about fell over when he had his uniform on. He looked like he was 10 years old! I've already started preparing myself for the first couple of weeks of dropping him off. It's going to be so so great for him, but I'm just not sure I am emotionally prepared yet! Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers because adjusting to change is not one of his strong points ;)

In the meantime, we had our house up for sale because we started building a house in New Iberia back in March. It's three doors down from my parents, next door to one set of grandparents and in the same neighborhood as my other grandmother plus 10 minutes from Blair's parents, so Hunter is in hog heaven! We got an offer on our old house mid June and closed this on July 15th. But since we were in Boston last weekend for the Usher Syndrome Coalition Family Conference, we moved out the weekend of July 4th and moved in with the grandmother until our house is complete. We are shooting to be in mid September.

The Sunday after we moved out, I asked a girl who has taken pictures of the boys before to come and take a few shots of us at the old house. It was such a bittersweet moment for me. It was the house I brought my two boys home to from the hospital. It holds so many great memories including many many firsts for both of my boys. I will never ever ever forget the night Hunter crawled and the day he walked through the door and straight into my arms for the first time. I will miss our dancing in the kitchen and the living room and cooking pizzas in the kitchen. All things that of course will be done in our new house, but there's nothing like your first family home. Here are a few of the pictures from Nicole Bell Photography:



I started this post a few weeks ago, so I can update you guys on living in "the berry" because we have been there for almost a month. And it's been so nice. I never realized how small my front yard was until we started playing in my grandmother's yard. And my parents have been a big help and Hunter gets to spend more time with them, and of course living with my grandmother has worked out really well for all of us. (at least we think so ;)