November flew by just like all the other months. I swear time is speeding up like crazy. I started my new job at the Urology clinic at the beginning of October and it doesn't even seem possible that I have been there for 2 months already. Not to mention the first semester of school is really wrapping up. I have had a lot of facebook posts pop up from the past that have really made miss the baby/toddler days. I feel like it was just yesterday but when I see the pictures I feel like I have already forgotten what it was like when they were that little. Anyway, the boys have had a wonderful November, filled with lots of family time. Their favorite thing we did was go to the Trolls movie on a $5 tuesday with free popcorn!
Callan has been busy making friends at school. He got his first birthday invite from the new school and got to see that he has friends in the neighborhood too. He has loved walking to school and have that independence. We also let them try breakfast at school, so sometimes on Fridays they walk up early to school for the $1.20 breakfast. He thinks it is super cool. The grape juice is his favorite part. We had conferences at the end of October and got a great report on Callan. He is going great academically but is thriving socially. His teacher says he is great listener and helper and she can always count on him to do the right thing even if others are not. If you ask him how school is he will say "great, and the only thing I have to work on is not talking so much!" He does talk a lot but not in a disruptive way. The teacher says he does just fine. I think it is funny that he thinks that. I got to volunteer in his class one day and help him the class make turkeys. He loves to read and write but he has loved art station the most because that is where his friend Teagan chooses to go everyday. So he colors the same dog picture everyday (different colors every day) to be with his friend. I have seen some different things come home so he might be breaking out a little. He writes a lot of stories and many of them have to do with Nase and Tatze (in present tense, even though Nase died over a year ago) I gave Callan an allergy pill before school one morning and later that night I asked him if it helped with all the sniffing. He said "yes, but I felt like I was itching my heart a lot".
working on his turkey in class
painting away
his finished turkey
one of his stories
one about his "pups"
a drawing of his brothers
eating lunch with his friends at school
He just found out he is going to the Husker football game with dad
celebrating Sutty's birthday
both callan and carter won the wysong wow award this week for being a great student
Carter has been loving all the nice weather, which means playing football with all his new found friends that live in the neighborhood. I find him riding his bike or playing football with most of his free time. The yard is just more full with neighborhood boys. He goes to chorus every Monday morning and has been enjoying that. They have their first concert in December. He moved up to Dolphins in swimming and is close to being a swim graduate. He really wants to do swim team so we will look into that for the spring maybe. Carter had a great conference in October as well. We did a little extra work on reading comprehension and he improved his score to "exceeds expectation". When he works hard he does great things! During the election Carter got to vote in school. We gave him a run down of the 4 candidates briefly. Later that week he told us who he voted for which was Jill Stein. When I asked why he said "because I really like the environment, and she does too!"
he got hit in the lip while playing outside
a little thanksgiving break movie with neighbors
last swim lesson before all the holidays
a paper that carter did
Camden is enjoying 2nd grade at the new school as well. He has made some friends and has been pushed academically this year so things have been a little more challenging for him. Camden has still be enjoying the pokemon craze. He says that a few boys and him play a pokemon game at recess where some of them are pokemons and others have to catch them. During the election there was a lot of buzz and talk from the kids. We had a lot to teach about the election process and what the different parties stand for/do. When we asked Camden who he would vote for he said Trump or Gary Johnson. When I asked why he said "because they are boys!" I guess he bases his vote on very little :) One day while the younger two were playing I over hear this. Callan- "How about I will be your donkey?" next thing I hear is Camden saying "Come on you dumb donkey!" (in his best Eyeore impression) and I see Callan crawling on the ground while Camden is prodding him with a ninja turtle sai. They can really entertain themselves I guess.
camden and his class working on getting all the bears to stand on one chair
project complete
one night he told me he was tired and ready for bed but the other two were watching the Husker football game in our room. I told him to go out to the couch in the living room and I found this a few minutes later.
an all about me camden did
a nice note from camden
last swim lesson before the holidays
playing a lazy sunday game of monopoly
new christmas jammies
celebrating suttons birthday
Trolls movie
five dollar tuesday - free popcorn
family time at the movies
we celebrated erin and oma's november birthdays together
happy birthday aunt erin!
