July 25, 2014

Our Summer Vacation

This year we were able to attend the summer parent workshop at The Moog Center for Deaf Education. What an amazing place! We learned so much, and we totally recommend attending if you have a deaf or hard-of-hearing child! Totally. I will warn you, though, by the time the workshop is over you will want to pack your belongings and move to St. Louis. They are that good.

While we were there, they did some evaluations on Audrena. The results were not quite what we had hoped to see, but we are thankful that we were able to bring the report back and make some positive changes on Audrena's IEP that should help her make good progress. We have a good school district to work with, and we still hope to meet the goal of having Audrena caught up by kindergarten.

In order to make the stars align for us to be able to attend the workshop, we needed someone to care for Reyana and Kelton. Thank God for family. My sister was able to go with us to St. Louis so that we could make a vacation out of it. She cared for the big kids while we attended the workshop from 9:00-3:00 each day. They swam in the pool and relaxed in the hotel suite. In our free time, we were able to go to the St. Louis Zoo, The Magic House Children's Museum, and The Gateway Arch. It was a great family vacation, and I can't thank my sister enough for making it possible! Here are just a few photos I have readily available on my phone.


People have always told us that Audrena would be the first deaf woman president. Maybe they were right....


My sister stayed at the bottom with Audrena while we took Reyana and Kelton up inside of The Gateway Arch. Here we are waiting for the "car" to pick us up.

We were assigned to "car" 3 on the way up.



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