The Balk Family

It's been a while. Life has gotten interesting.

Let's see, where to begin..........

PJ is working at Sparrow now. He loves it! It's a great position and the potential there is awesome! I'm so proud of him and the leap he made.

I am now 14 weeks pregnant with baby number 4. I am now just down to part time in college- got to be too much. After this semester I will be taking the spring/summer off and returning in fall 2014.

Phillip (now 7!) is almost finished with his grade 1 school books but in all honesty we have strayed from his normal books and he is halfway through the next set. I find that he does better if I write out problems and sit and run through stuff with him. He does 2 workbooks every day by himself and the rest we do together. He started multiplication all by himself! Proud mama right here. 

Hannah (now 4!) got her new glasses. No wonder she was having such a hard time noticing her alphabet- she couldn't see it! She got her 2nd step glasses in May and now she's set for a year. She has writing her name down almost 80% of the time. We are done with shapes and colors and are moving on to recognizing all letters and numbers up to 50.

Sophia's still my little mystery. Her medical stuff is just as confusing today as it was when she was 2 months old. Go figure! Otherwise, she's a happy 20 month old who lets you know what she's feeling!!!!

We just got back from a mini vacation. It was nice few days of swimming and not having a care in the world. Visited Kalahari water park in Sandusky, oh and Fairfield by Marriott :) Fun times!!! 

Let's see hmm, oh the house! After 3 floods and upwards of 20k dollars of cleanup and basement tiling system- the basement is now full of mold. We tore down most of the drywall and paneling and it's even in the support beams now. Even running 2 dehumidifiers 24/7 isn't taking care of the problem. It's frustrating. It has made us all sick and we didn't even notice it. We tested it, we put an old car seat downstairs and 24 hours later it was covered with mold. That's great, huh? We are getting rid of this money/health hole.