What's Been Going On...

Where do I start? Well, Nathan is finishing up his 2 week vacation today. The first week of it coincided with Noah's spring break, so that worked out quite well. We drove down to the coast to visit with our family and continue "house shopping" as Noah calls it. We were able to fit in some fun outings but unfortunately I left my camera at Nathan's parents house so I won't have any pictures to update for awhile.

No, we did not find a house if you are wondering. The housing market is surprisingly much more expensive on the coast than Jackson and several of the homes flooded during Katrina so we are just trying to muddle through several options and make a smart decision. We did tour 6 different elementary schools- both public and private and decided that Bayou View Elem School Gulfport is where we want to send the kids. It is a public school and we were super impressed with all that it had to offer as well as the behavior and testing of the children. Actually the private schools that we looked at didn't even hold a candle to Bayou View Elem school. So that decision eliminated all other areas we had been looking at so at least now we are focused solely on Gulfport. I really think that the house for us has just not come on the market yet, so please pray for our patience with God's timing and that we will know for certain which house He has planned for us.

Sweet little Ava woke up sick 2 days after we returned home and has been sick ever since. She woke up with a fever and no other symptoms so we thought it might be another UTI. We went to the doctor that morning and after a strep test and urine cath, everything was negative. He did do a CBC which showed a viral illness, so we went home and have just been treating her fever ever since. The urine culture did come back negative so that was good news and we have an appt with the pediatric urologist on April 9th. So now we are into Ava's 6th day of fever and runny nose and just feeling yucky. I hope it's not the flu. She is pretty miserable and has been sleeping with us and basically wanting to be on me all the time.

Noah is back at school (hooray!) and really testing us with his behavior. It's mainly verbal responses he gives us or just not doing what we ask. Nathan has been super consistent with him (as I am not all the time although I try to be) this week so hopefully we will see a change in behavior soon.

So I guess that's our update for now. Hope you all have a great week!