Nothing but good news...

The Rockets won their game tonight by a landslide, well... they won if anyone was keeping score. Hunter got in the game and did a good job until he got tired of running. He says defense is better, less running.

Carter went to school yesterday and today without tears. Today he even managed to take a short nap which is an improvement from yesterday. When you ask him if he had fun at school he says "YES". According to Miss Joyce he had a great time cutting and using glue today.

Carter's First Day of "School"

We survived and it wasn't as terrible and I had been dreading. Don't get me wrong, there were tears involved and it wasn't easy saying good-bye. I did not cry though, yay! His teacher said he did calm down about five minutes after I left. When I picked him up I got a smile and a hug without any pouting (another score, yay). I asked Carter if he had fun and he said yes. When Todd came home he still answered yes school was fun. Carter has shared some stories with me about school, but I can't say I understood any of them. When he babbles now I think it is somewhere between Chinese and English; I'm not sure that there is anyone who speaks his babble language. His teacher did report that he seemed to especially enjoy story time when she read the class a book. Carter apparently kept getting up and having the teacher go back to the previous page in order to point out things in the picture (oh no, like our family can handle much more attention to detail, lol).

Since this is all about Carter I'll include some pictures Grandma sent me of Carter and his Grandpa Disch playing with trains. Carter may be Grandpa's only shot at another rail fan in the family (yikes), but there is still plenty of time for Carter to grow out of it:)

Happy Birthday to Grammy!

Grandparent birthday season has officially started, 4 more before Hunter's December birthday. Hunter helped bake the cake; he used the mixer for the first time then helped with the icing and decorating. Carter managed to get his fingers in the cake before we served it:) Both boys helped their Grammy out by blowing out the candles for her.

It's so hard to not always get your way.

Two months have flown by, but it seems like we have been 2+2 forever.

Hunter seems to be enjoying kindergarten and has pretty much adjusted to his new routine and responsibilities. Fall soccer season officially started last night with the first game. Hunter's team is called the Rockets this year. Carter was a pretty great cheerleader for his big brother. "Kick the ball Hunter", "Go Hunter Go", "Good job".

Carter visited his new "school" this week and was as excited as he could be that there was a train in his room. He isn't too excited about the idea that mom is going to be leaving him at school to go to work. It appears that we will have several rough and tearful mornings ahead of us. Next week is my last week off from work. Carter will have some half days at school to help transition into our new routine.

Other than that, we are all doing great. Carter's English continues to increase at such an impressive speed. He added such words/phrases as "upside down", "yes", "hold on", "mine", "Carter try", "I need to pee-pee/poop", "Hungry, let's eat", to mention a few of the newer ones. Another recent change is when he sees a picture of himself he says that's Carter versus Si En.

Here are some September pictures as we head into Fall.