An Update With Pictures

I love this picture. Carter's "smiley" face and Easton looking totally confused as to why I would leave him solely in the arms of his brother (even if it was for a picture).Tade's balloon face.
He is getting so big. First grade is winding up. He has learned so much and is lucky enough to make friends really easily. He is a good kid!
Ashlynn and her Daddy. I think they look so much alike.
Ash is my big helper. She has a September birthday so we still have one more year before Kindergarten. If anyone knows of a good, CHEAPER, preschool, let me know. I need to find something to keep her busy next year.
Carter is Carter. That is all I can say about this kid. He is fun, busy, adorable, mischievous, relentless, happy, helpful, NOT helpful :), and everything else an almost two year old boy is. LOVE HIM!!!
Baby E is is getting so big. He is two months old next week. I can't imagine our family without him. He is such a sweet boy and lately has been really good at letting mommy get at least four hours of sleep at a time at night if not six! What a good boy!

*JUST AN FYI SIDE NOTE*

Since Easton has been born we have had to get his hearing checked because he didn't pass the newborn screening done in the hospital. After several more checks and additional testing he has been diagnosed with moderate (low tones) to severe (high tones) hearing loss. There are still lots of questions that we have that will hopefully be answered over the next couple weeks as we meet with and ENT and get more testing, but basically he will have to have hearing aids to help him develop his hearing and speech. We are still unsure whether it is a permanent (inner ear) or temporary (middle ear: might be correctable with surgery or a tiny chance that it is just fluid and will fix its self) problem, thus the more testing. The first couple days after finding out, I took the news pretty hard. I was mostly upset at how this challenge was going to effect Easton's life. My biggest question was, Why did this poor baby boy have to have this struggle? I have since then realized that he MUST be pretty SPECIAL for Heavenly Father to know that he can handle something like this. I have done alot of research, talked to a few more people and have really come to realize that Easton's life should be pretty normal, except for the two little aids he will wear in his ears. We have our ENT appointment next week and then we will probably get fitted for the hearing aids after that. Apparently, you have to have a doctors order to get them. I am learning alot of stuff. I need to send out a huge thanks to the family and friends who fasted and prayed for Easton last Fast Sunday. It was amazing the feeling of love and peace we had on that day and since.