A New Tooth and A New Home

It's official!  Kyle has his first tooth on the bottom (middle right).  It hasn't fully emerged, but it is there and it is sharp.  He no longer gets to chew on Mama's cell phone (he scratched it up yesterday).

He is now crawling even faster.  I cannot look away for a second.  It's still an army crawl, but it works for him.  He gets up on all fours and "creeps",  so he'll be crawling the right way soon!  He also loves to try to pull up on furniture and gets frustrated when he can't do it on his own.  

He is such a funny little boy and has kept me smiling through all we have gone through this past month.

We move into our brand-new apartment on Saturday, October 25th.  The lady who leased it to us assured us that it would be ready!  I've never lived in a brand new place!  YAY!  

It is located in League City (a southern suburb of Houston) although our mailing address is Dickinson.  It is on a golf course and has so many beautiful trees.  We have a view of the course from our apartment.

We are ready to be back into our own place although it has been wonderful staying with my parents.  They are such a help and have been so supportive.

I know Greg is looking forward to being back in school.  He's going to be so busy catching up on a month's worth of studying and getting ready for his Medical Licensing Exam in June.

That's all for now.  I'll post some newer pics of Kyle a little later!

Not Good News

It's as we expected.  26 inch water line on the outside of our house which means that the water line inside was 19 inches  (our house is up one step from the ground).

All of our furniture is ruined.  There is mold all over the furniture (the wood and the fabric).  The floors have a layer of mud on them and the whole house (and the entire city) stinks.  It's a smell I'll never forget and may never get out of my nose.

We were able to save our pictures (wedding album, most framed photos, diplomas).  Kyle's baby book was fine, thank goodness.  We also saved the beautiful quilt that Janet hand-made for Kyle and the special blanket that Becky had embroidered for Kyle.  They were up high on the back of a chair.

There really isn't much else that we can save or that we care to save.  All of our clothes and bedding is ruined.  Even the pieces of clothing that didn't have mold (yet) on them will forever stink.  

Greg drove back down today to meet with the insurance adjuster.  We'll see how that goes....  He is going to try to move some furniture out to the curb (which serves as the dumpster) and possible bring some more stuff back.

Regardless, Greg will start school again on October 20th.  We are looking at possibly living on the mainland about 30 minutes from Galveston.  It's not ideal (what we had was ideal), but we will make it work.  

Our house in Galveston is definitely not livable and really needs to be gutted if not leveled and rebuilt.  Our landlord will get to it eventually but he has his own home and another property to deal with.  I don't trust him to repair it and it be safe for our family.  

We have a ton of pictures of the "damage" and we will get them up soon.