busy busy busy

Brothers 

My Baby is getting SO BIG

I told James to pretend daddy was tickling him, and I finally got him to smile normally!

Oh, Mr Sam, STOP GROWING!

Trying to sign "more"

On the move

Where Sam's hearing aids are most of the time 

So Life has been crazy busy lately.  Nate is well into his 3rd year of teaching, and it's going well.  He is coaching girls volleyball, and his team is currently undefeated! They are actually a pretty good team.  They boys and I have attended a few games, and I was quite impressed!  Nate has also decided to take some masters level classes at the college.  He's taking a deaf education class right now.  He started the class a few weeks late, so he working on catching up right now. 

I finished my statistics class a few weeks ago, and I'm now getting everything ready to send in my application to Frontier.  I'm so nervous excited.  I'm feel more and more ready to begin this new adventure!  I know that in 2 years when I'm done, it will feel like it just flew by.  

They boys are getting so big!  James has been doing AWANA on Wednesday nights, and he LOVES it.  He cries whenever he sees us at the door to come get him, and begs to stay "just one more minute."  He loves church and the interaction with other kids.  He is officially completely potty trained! PTL!!!  We've had a few accidents, but for the most part, he's been diaper free for a month.  James has also been OBSESSED with motorcycles lately. He can hear one coming from a mile away.  Every time he hears/sees one he says Grandpa Steve is going to take him on a motorcycle ride.  

Sam turned 9 months old last week, and I'm in such denial that he is almost 1!  I really don't know where the time has gone.  He started army crawling last week, and has been scooting around the house like crazy.  He still hasn't figured out how to use his knees, but I think it wont' be too long.  We had his audiology appointment this week, and they tested his hearing without his aids, and he tested very similarly as he did with his ABR that we did a 2 months.  We've been having difficulty keeping his aids in lately, because all he wants to do is eat them. I even made him a super cute hate to help keep them on, but he just rips that off too.  Hopefully we will be out of this phase soon.