Updates

Here are some more updates on the boys.  Summer ended somewhat abruptly.  I was looking forward to it being over because of work, but it was a sudden shock when we couldn't do our Tuesday Fun Days anymore. 

Caleb started the First Grade this year.  His teacher's name is Miss Becker.  She is a newer teacher, but so far she is doing pretty well.  I was worried she wouldn't be able to handle Caleb's "crazies".  He is in a class with two boys from Kindergarten that he really likes- Jake and Chance.  The school year is going well so far he is really doing well in Math learning addition and subtraction.  Each week he writes in a journal that comes home for us to write back to him.  He also has a great reading system each month that he tries to read as many minutes as he can, getting a bead for a necklace at school after every 100 minutes.  It is really motivating him to read everyday (when we can).  He is becoming pretty good at reading.  He chooses hard books sometimes and to hear him try to read them is quite humerous as he just skims by the hard words, which makes you wonder how he even knows what is going on in the story.  It is pretty fun to hear him read everything, or at least try. 

Carter was pretty excited for summer to end.  When Caleb started school Carter wanted nothing but to go to school as well.  He was pretty excited to see all of his friends.  He still only goes to school in the afternoons and when I work all day.  But, he loves that time with his friends.  He has a buddy named Jack that he especially gets along with.  They had a couple playdates over the summer even.  Jack is pretty crazy and when the two of them get together they are a ball of energy!  Carter has several good buddies in his class Greyson and Silas are 2 of them.  Carter gets a little preschool in each week when he attends daycare all day and I can really tell through him wanting to write, or noticing letters and numbers. 

Both boys are in sports this Fall which is keeping this tired pregnant mommy on her toes!  Here is our weekly schedule. Now remember, I am supposed to be working until 6pm each of these nights and Chris is gone in the field.
Mondays- 5:45 Soccer Carter game, Caleb practice
Tuesdays- 5:45 Caleb soccer game
Wednesdays- Supposed to have Carter's soccer practice- choose to skip. 
Thursdays- 6:00 Caleb Football practice
Fridays- Crash!
Saturdays- Caleb football in the morning.
Getting supper on the table and not losing my mind each of the nights with soccer and football has been a chore.  Especially with Chris being in the field. 

Harvest started about 3 weeks ago.  Very early this year due to the early Spring planting.  Chris actually just finished their last field Friday night!  Pretty darn impressive finishing before October, especially considering the year I was pregnant with Carter we were hoping he would be done before Carter was born- November 28th! 

Update- baby contractions later...

Horrible Blogger

I have become such a horrible blogger!  Sorry to everyone who actually attempts to read this.  And to my children when they have no memories recorded!!

Here are a couple current funnies from the boys.

We were watching Planet 51 the other night and Chris mentioned that one of the characters sounded like Barack Obama.  I am not sure exactly how the conversation went to get to this point, but Caleb eventually impersonated Barack Obama, because he "knows what he sounds like".  In a very deep 6 year old voice all I hear is "I am Barack Obama and I approve this message".  LOL!

I was bathing a VERY filthy Carter the other night and had to scrib pretty hard on his legs since they were covered in black gunk from the tire chips at daycare.  He was whining saying it hurt his owies when I told him if he would stay off his knees they wouldn't have owies.  To which he responds "then how am I going to play 'Puppies?!'" 

Baby update: I am currently having bi-weekly appointments with an ultrasound at each appointment.  Once a month the ultrasound is a growth u/s, but the rest are pretty fast and just measure the fluid.  On September 17th she weighed 5lbs 4 oz.  she is in the 48%tile.  She is doing great and we have gotten some neat 2D pictures of her face.  We decided to paint the nursery so it is now a lighter purple on top and dark purple on the bottom.  Goes well with the pink carpet!  I spent most of the day last weekend finishing up the organizing of her room.  So, we have drawers with clean clothes, a set of drawers with diapers, bibs, burp rags, etc all set up.  Her crib is ready to go and even the recliner that I will use for nursing is set up with a side "table".  I want to make her name on the wall in a "pinteresting" way, but that would mean we would have to decide on a name.  :0)  We have the names settled to about 3 names- one sticking out more than others, but the middle name has us stumped with 4 options.  Jeez.  We are set to have the c-section on Wednesday, October 24th.  3 1/2 weeks left!  I have quite a bit of work to accomplish within those 3 weeks to be ready for maternity leave, but it will get done some way or another. 

The boys went to Big Brother class a couple weeks ago.  Carter LOVED every second of it.  He is so exctied to have this baby some live with us.  He always says he is going to rock the baby to sleep and to sing to her and feed her, etc.  He is already so caring and thinks about her all the time.  Caleb is excited, too.  But doesn't show it as much.  I wonder if he thinks it isn't "cool" to be excited.  But, his teacher said he mentioned it the other day at school to the class when they were writing about him in their friend journal and he was pretty excited about it. 

Here are some things I need to cover the next time I blog:
Sports
School
Doctor appointments- caleb and baby