Summer Fun!


Whew! The first half of the summer has gone by so fast already!!!!! I was thinking that when I had time off of work that I'd well......have time off!!! LOL!!!! We have been super busy with all fun stuff! We enjoyed our third 4th of July home in the States. We went swimming, took a nap and then we stayed up late enough to watch the fireworks! Jaryse was a bit nervous at first, the loud noises and we were pretty close and he kept telling me that it was going to get into his eyes! After a few minutes he was enjoying them too!


Ecrissa LOVED the fireworks! That big wide-eyed, open mouthed smile that you see above is what she did the ENTIRE show! She loved hearing the BOOMS and loved the colors.





Last weekend we went to the Coopersville/Marne Railway. It was super fun! We got to ride an old train and be a part of a re-enactment of a train robbery. The kids LOVED it! It was super cute.






Ecrissa had her Left cochlear implant activated last Friday. It was an interesting appointment where Ecrissa did not want to cooperate, but in the end, she is now hearing from 2 ears. This coming Tuesday she goes back into the audiologist to have it checked and programmed again. I'm sure each time will get better and better. She is wearing both of them all day with no problems and dealing with it so well.


This week and part of next week she is attending a day camp for children who are deaf. She is really enjoying it.




Aside from all of that fun, we have been super busy with doctor appointments! We have all had our eyes evaluated, I am being treated for a re-occuring infection (Thank you Haiti for Staph), I had a wisdom tooth pulled (ugh) and Ecrissa is at speech therapy once a week! We also have various follow-up appointments for Ecrissa's implant (doctor, speech and audiologist), dental follow-ups for the kids next month another eye follow up for me! Yay for summer time and time off to allow for all of this to happen! I am thankful for health insurance all the provisions that the Lord provides and keeps all of us healthy and moving forward in so many ways.











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