Where to Begin??

Well, I finally jumped into the Technology Age and created a blog. I'm a Technology expert (go figure) but I have put this off for a long time, so here goes......

I'm a working mother of two. Seth, Jr who is four years old, and Abby who is two. I work for the Boeing Company, but thankfully I am able to work from home. This means I'm only 10 minutes from my kids sitter rather than over an hour away.

I have been married since Sept 2002 to Seth. He is an Auto Mechanic and works for Jay Wolfe Toyota in West County. He is a wonderful hardworking guy who I probably don't thank enough for all he does.

Our family is always very busy. Seth and I are very involved in various ministries at our Church. We are on the road a LOT as we live in a rural area and are pretty far from just about anything. Our faith is very important to us, and we hope to raise our kids with the same values and morals we believe.

Seth Jr will be starting Jr Kindergarten next August. This is very exciting! He just finished 3 year old preschool and knows how to write all his letters, and numbers. He recognizes all his letters and is working on the phonics for them. He is a very loving, imaginative, little boy. He has his daddy's big brown eyes and can pretty much use them to get his way on just about anything with his mommy.

Abby is quite the big girl these days. She is my little blond-hair, blue eyed princess....well, really she more of her daddy's princess these days. She has him completely wrapped around her finger and cries for him every time he leaves her sight (no hurt feelings from me : )

For those of you who don't know, Abby was born hearing impaired .... She is classified as deaf. Thankfully Missouri instituted a required newborn hearing screening in 2002. Abby was identified as deaf at birth. This has been such an advantage to her as it used to be parents would only find out around the age of 2 that their child is deaf. Abby has been going to St. Joseph's Institute since she was 2 months old. She got hearing aids at 2 months and her and mommy go to speech therapy every Tuesday morning. Daddy goes with her when he can. She is doing really great with her speech, but there are definately sounds she misses out on such as 's' 'ch' ' f' 'p' , etc. Because of this her speech is still very hard to understand.

The exciting news in our families lives right now is that on June 17, Abby will be getting a Cochlear Implant!!! If you've never heard of it visit this site http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/coch.asp. It is a WONDERFUL piece of technology that will enable Abby to hear much more clearly than with the hearing aids. With the implant and her continued speech therapy she will most likely have speech so close to perfect that most people will not realize she is deaf as she grows older.

So, the big surgery is on June 17. I'm hoping to use this blog to keep everyone posted on her progress following the surgery and her progress as she continues to develop her speech.