The BOYS

Seeing the last 2 posts have been about the girls, I thought I would take a minute and give the boys a bit of the spotlight. Here is the latest and greatest:


NOAH started back in his hip hop class this week. He took a class last year, but I had him take a break this fall due to the craziness of having a new baby. I told him he could start back up in January, thinking he would possibly lose interest as the months past. I was wrong. Right after Christmas he started asking when he could start again. Even though the driving is a bit of a pain, we are all excited for him. He loves it, and the performances are hilarious. A class full of 5 and 6 year olds doing the Worm and the Coffee Grinder (as he calls them) is great entertainment. The photo below is Ellie and him performing at Lagoon last summer.

He is off track and loving it, and we are loving not having to drag him out of bed every morning. He's not exactly what you would call a morning person. For the moment, his days are spent playing with friends, playing his DS, and sledding in our front yard on the giant hill that was made from all the snow we got. What a life. I make him clean his room and do a job or two here and there to give him a small dose of reality, but for the most part am letting him enjoy his break from school. That will come to an abrupt end in a few weeks when he goes back on track - not that Kindergarten is all that stressful! He loves school and is starting to read like a champ.




CARTER is getting too smart for his own good (and possibly ours!) He has sort of figured out how to tell time, at least to the hour. He knows that his bedtime (on a good night) is 7:00. He looked at the clock tonight, right at 7:00, and this is how our conversation went.

CARTER - "Mom it's seven o'clock!"
ME - "Yep Carter it is seven o'clock. Do you know what that means?"
CARTER - "What mom."
ME - "That means it's your bedtime!"
CARTER - (with a sad face) "Mom - next time I'm not going to tell you what time it is!"

A little too smart for his own good - but very funny.
He is now a Sunbeam at church and is very excited and proud to be out of Nursery (although the first week he cried and clung to my leg!). His friends are starting to become very high on his priority list. His two best buddies (see picture below) go to preschool with him, and he is always asking to call them on the phone and have them over to play. Yesterday he asked if he could have them sleepover. I don't think we are quite ready for that! Getting one 3 year old to go to bed is enough of a challenge - thank you anyways.



I love my BOYS!