Lafayette or Bust

So, Nathan got a new job. In Lafayette. It's finally happening, we're actually leaving Natchitoches. I'm hoping to be able to keep my job, and work for the Natchitoches Medicaid office from the Lafayette Medicaid office. Crazy I know, but it just might work. If it doesn't, do you know anyone hiring in Lafayette? We'll be moving in with my parents for a few years, probably 2 or 3, then we'll use the money we saved up from minimal rent and utilities to actually put a down payment on a house. My sister and her husband are still looking for a house, but until they find one, it will be my parents, Nathan, Ellie, and I and Kelley, Chris and then their little one when he's born. Thank God we're an unnaturally close family to begin with.

I'm really gonna miss it here. It was nice having our own place and our own space. This was Eleanor's first home. My family's first home. We have a great landlady. You can see the fireworks on Front Street from our couch in the living room. The porch is a great place to read. I'll never forget that summer wit the birds. Every night at 6:30 about 20 large flocks of birds would swoop into our backyard to roost for the night. I've never seen so many birds. We have good friends here too. Really good friends.

I am so excited to finally be back in Lafayette soon. Things stay open on Sunday. You don't have to drive an hour away to find anything you can't get at Wal Mart. Eleanor will grow up in the same town as her grandparents and cousin(s). I can actually finally feel like our own real home is just a couple of years away. Then our friends can come over. (:

We're going to have to make trips back up here. I'm hoping once a month. That would be nice.

Wish us luck!

When it rains, it pours.

So, Ellie has been walking for just over a week now, and in this past week she decided to go ahead and grow a tooth. The first one seems to have breached the surface relatively easily, but I think the second one is coming and it's being a bit more difficult for her. Poor thing. As if walking and teeth weren't enough, earlier today we think she was trying to repeat our friend Chanel. Chanel took something from her and said,"Thank you." Then Eleanor said something that sounded very much like "thank you" three times in a row. Here is Chanel's response.


We said "thank you" several times to her after that, but she was finished trying that one. Then at story time tonight, we were reading a book about a goose and duck. She sounded a bit like she was trying to say "duck," so we would occasionally point at the duck and repeat the word to her. She tried it several times. At first it was "du" and sometimes "du, du" but there were definitely a few times when she could point at the picture and clearly say, "dut." I was so proud. :D Then she fell off the bed and hit the back of her head. Poor sweet one. She's okay, after she calmed down you could easily tell that the back of her head wasn't the slightest bit tender. I hope she didn't forget about the dut.

Here are some pictures of Ellie from when we took her to a playground, back when she still couldn't walk, had no teeth and wasn't using any English. You know, two weeks ago.




The plastic slide seems to have been electrically charged. (: