Latest and Greatest

• In the picture Carter is standing in front of the indoor tornado at the Mckinley Museum.  This weekend we visited with his cub scout den and one of the bears den.  Carter and I had a great time!
• Recently there was a clog in the shower drain.  Carter told me that "your hair combines with Dad's ear wax to make the clog."  How much ear wax do you think your Dad has?!?!?  But luckily Dad recently bought an insanely long snake, so we can clear any drain from here to Hawaii!!!
• I'm so proud of Mr. Carter boy.  He has always been very sensitive to scary things and recently he was invited to see Maleficent with friends at the dollar theatre.  I was nervous that he was going to be terrified or have lots of nightmares.  But we went anyway, and he did great!  

• This crazy kid has become really interested in writing letters.  I took a picture of a crane that I drew from our "How to draw" book and then we colored it together.  He wrote the word crane at the bottom with my help and then he wrote Dawson on the picture for the first time with no help!  Now, it's hard to tell because the D is backwards and his name is written backwards, but if you start in the top right hand corner of the picture you can see (backward)D A W (sideways) S O N.  Good job buddy!  We're going to have to work on the left to right directionality, but still great!
• He is also doing really good at preschool drop off.  We still watches me in the window and waves good bye every single time, but we have made so much progress since August!
• This kid has always been very obsessive with his interests and he has become very interested in two things:  fire trucks and John Deere tractors.  This has become a problem because he has three shirts with fire trucks or John Deere tractors on them and that is all he wants to wear.  Fortunately we also have a shirt with a crane on it that he will wear if the other three are dirty (which happens frequently!)  I also had a friend that lent me three extra fire truck shirts which helps!  It's pretty tough to keep those three shirts clean!

• That leaves little Roo.  She was sick this weekend with a fever and I took her to the doctor on Monday and found out she has strep.  So she missed school Monday and Tuesday and finally went back to school today.  This poor girl she has missed three school days already this year!  
• Monday Ava didn't get medicine until the afternoon so she still pretty lethargic and whiny.  But on Tuesday she was feeling so much better and it was nice to watch Ava and Dawson running around and playing together.  Dawson gets a little lonely sometimes with me as his only playmate!
• I asked Ava about the best thing that happened to her today.  Her answer?  My friends at school gave me big hugs when I came back.  So glad to hear it!