I guess it's time for another update

See I told you guys I'm not good at updating blogs. I'm really good at reading other people's blog though! One blog I read religiously is by someone I don't even know. Kali introduced me to it at the beginning of the year and I really enjoy it. It was started to chronicle a family who has a little boy who is deaf and has bilateral cochlear implants. When I started reading, he had just had his surgery at 8 months old and is now within normal limits for speech and language, which is so awesome. Anyway, the woman who writes it (the little boy's mom) is in the hospital right now having an emergency c-section to deliver her little girl, which is baby #4 (technically baby #5, as one was stillborn). She's only 32 weeks, so keep this family in your prayers. She hasn't had a whole lot of luck with pregnancies. All of her kids were born premature.

Anyhoo, you probably don't care much about some random person that I don't even know.

I've been keeping pretty busy. Work is still great. I went to a workshop on Visual Phonics at the beginning of November and it was sooo awesome. I've been using it pretty intensely with my student who signs and he is doing so well. He has been sounding out words and voicing while reading. It's so amazing. He has a cochlear implant, but up until this year, has not used it. Today, he told me that he could hear the furnace running in my room and it was pretty quiet.

I went home for Thanksgiving, which was nice since I haven't been home to St. Louis since August. I came in on Wednesday afternoon and in the evening my mom, Sam, and I met my aunt at Hessler's. We had a great time hanging out. Thursday morning I went to my dad's for a Thanksgiving breakfast. I finally got to see the awesome job my dad did on the kitchen renovations. For dinner I went with my mom to her friend's house. After about a bottle and a third of wine and a delicious dinner, I conked out at 9:00. I was sent to the guest room while everyone else had fun laughing at my mom sleeping on the couch. Mom's friend woke me up and as we were getting ready to go, a fire broke out in the oven, filling the house with smoke. I hi-tailed it out of there and waited in the car for them to get it under control with my mom.

Friday morning was time for shopping. Good times. I got some Christmas presents, along with some presents for myself.

The rest of the weekend was fun too, but I'm getting tired of typing. Maybe I'll make another post in a few days...we'll see.