Unexpected Day Off...

I went to sleep last night (EARLY!) after work, a quick trip to the gym and the grocery store and was prepared for a typical day at work when I got THE call at 5:30 a.m. The automated voice explained that we had NO SCHOOL due to ice! What???

I got up, dropped the boys off as usual (they definitely need structure after these past 2 weeks) and headed to the gym. I also got some extraneous errands done that I just never have the time to do. I even did some major filing and I found more information on the Great Forest Park Balloon Race in which Luke was a cover story and I realized that I never have posted the fact that our very our Luka Buka (lovely nickname that it is!) is a feature story on the St. Louis Children's Hospital website. The entire family's picture plus our two fab cochlear implant audiologists is on there. Check us out at www.stlouischildrens.org. It has been up there for a while, so I'm not sure how much longer it will be there, but I'm a proud mom, so I just had to share!

And, tomorrow is another BIG day in Luke's life as he officially starts school at CID, Central Institute for the Deaf. We are so blessed in St. Louis to have 3 amazing oral schools, 2 hospitals performing CI surgeries and such great Deaf advocates, one of which is teacing us ASL. Anyhow, Dan is taking Luke there for his first day, from 9 - 12 and then my mom and I will be taking him on Friday. I can't wait to see all the great things he will do once he gets into this amazing class with Master's level Deaf and HOH teachers, great SLPs and tons of Grad Students! I can see another language explosion in my little man's future! I'll definitely keep everyone posted and will hopefully have some amazing pictures to share of our little guy's first day tomorrow. As for me now, it is off to pick up the boys, have a therapy session with our Deaf/HOH Teacher from CID, Beth, who has been with us from the beginning and then head off to our family's ASL class! Wow...I can't imagine how boring our life would be if we didn't have Luke! :) We are loving every minute of it though!