Busy Summer

It is hard to believe that the end of summer is almost here and the little ones will be returning to school again soon (at least in our little neck of the woods they will be).  It has been a while since I've posted but must say...I think it is with good reason...

The SOLD sign just went up last night!  :) 

For those of you who may not know, after almost 3 years of searching we've finally found and purchased a home which we feel will better meet Ethan's needs as he gets older and grows bigger.  In order to facilitate all of this (or at the least to make payments easier) we had to sell our house.  We've been working on it since we purchased our house and finally got it on the market last Saturday.  Every spare moment went in to packing up stuff that we could do without for a couple weeks, finishing off the projects that got started but for some reason were never completed, touch up work and just generally getting the house show ready.  We were delighted to find that all our hard work paid off as there was interest not only in our area, but in our house as well.  The closing on this house is close to that of our new house so we won't have to carry two homes for long.  :)  Everything has worked out amazingly well and we're quite delighted!  Next week is the big move to get into the new house, so I may not get a chance to update much...

Since my last post, the kids have both been to camp and enjoyed themselves.  Lorelei attended art camp again for part of the summer and made many beautiful art pieces.  All inspired by my favourite artist Salvador Dali.

Ethan attended Gym & Swim camp again this year, but due to his recent surgery was only able to attend every other day.  He still had a grand time when he was able to go.

Watching bubbles.

 

 

Ethan had another wonderful volunteer again this year.  He has been experiencing increased pain for the past couple weeks and in the pool was the one time he would fully relax and let go of his tension.  It was really nice to see him have a chance to be comfortable again.

 

We've had him to see the orthopedic surgeon and although his x-rays came back the same as post-surgery, Ethan will have to have a CT scan to better see what the screws in his rods are doing.  There is a possibility that due to the weakness of Ethan's bones the screws may have come loose...but we're hoping we just pushed him too much with therapy or that he is just having some temporary muscle pain.  He has an MRI scheduled early next month to see how the cysts around his brain are compared to about 6 months ago and we're hoping we can run the CT scan at the same time to take advantage of his sedation for the MRI.  As always, good thoughts are appreciated!  





Another Year Older...

It is so hard to believe that Lorelei is already 8 years old!!!  It seems like yesterday she was that tiny baby who fit on my belly.

Now she's over 4 feet tall and growing.  She recently celebrated her birthday at a local Build-a-Bear with some of her friends.  They all got to pick a stuffed animal and accessories.  The girls had a great time!

They also wrote their names and those of their new stuffed buddies on the yellow bear Lorelei has in the above picture (which of course she got to keep).  She chose to stuff a bunny that day (laying beside her).  As usual she was spoiled for her birthday...and if we haven't already done so, thank you to all who thought of her!  There are times she feels like she has to take a backseat in attention at home but I do not think that was on her mind that day.