Friday, October 15, 2010

Been a while!

I realized it's been a while since my last entry.  Since moving back to St Louis we've been pretty busy.  I'm working at a middle school that is considered urban.  I've never encountered this kind of lifestyle - foster families, boys and girls homes, homeless students, severe emotional disorders ... this school has it all.  It's a challenge to say the least, and many times I come home baffled and exhausted.  My prayer is that God will use me to make even the slightest difference for these students in the short time I'm there.

Shortly after the school year began, we learned that God has blessed us with another baby.  I've taken to calling the baby Peanut, and Kaitlyn is convinced the baby is a boy ... only because she already has a baby sister, so she needs a baby brother now.  We'll see if God agrees with her in another month or so.  Peanut's due date is May 10th. 

It was a difficult transition to go back to the school lifestyle.  We so enjoyed serving the church during our year of vicarage and are really looking forward to getting back in the parish.  But after a couple rough weeks of balancing his school work and web development, Sean seems to have gotten the hang of things again.  We have our placement interviews beginning next week, then we get to wait and see what happens.

The girls are both doing great.  Kaitlyn is in an in home preschool with a great teacher and really seems to love it.  The girls have a babysitter who we're all very happy with.  They get to play with another little girl and 2 baby boys all day.  Christine has adjusted well to being away from us too.   Christine is starting to use more words and is getting better at communicating.  Kaitlyn continues to figure out the world around her connecting new concepts with familiar ones.  It's really fun to have conversations with her to see how those wheels are turning.  She's also trying to grasp the concept of rhyming words - she almost has it. 

Now back to uploading all of those pictures I'm behind on ...