Report Cards

We actually are going to post to the blog twice in one month! It must be a miracle. :) I finally got my first real report card last week. It's a good one! I got all B's and 1 C (in French). My teacher writes "Carter enjoys being at school and gets along well with his peers. He is showing good growth in the basic skills. At times, he is inattentive and needs reminders to listen attentively during instructional time. He has made great strides in participating more during discussions and enjoys sharing his ideas. Carter is developing better work habits; however, he does need reminders to stay on task. He is encouraged to use his time more wisely in order to become more productive and to complete his work on time." My mom pretty much agrees with the teacher. Sometimes whats going on in my imagination is so much more interesting then what she is teaching. But everyone is very happy with my report card. And guess what?? In 3 months I went from reading nothing to going to reading the average of my class (level 5). That's a pretty great accomplishment!

Our other big news is we just got back from Sault Ste Marie. Mommy and me left on Wednesday morning. And when we woke up Wednesday morning...holy cow...snow everywhere!! But we hit the road anyhow and left Tony and Tucker behind. Tony had to work and Tucker is too big to travel in the little car. The trip there was good. We only stopped twice on the way there and on the way back...in Deep River at Tim's and at Espanola at Wendy's. It was pretty great to spend some time with grandma, grandpa, papa, aunt Jodie, uncle Paul, Emma and Aunt Carrie. The first night I just stayed up playing with grandpa and grandma and we watched the whole Sens game...right until the end. But the Sens lost. Then on Thursday we went to visit Papa. He sure was happy to see me. And in the afternoon we went out with grandpa. First to get his oil changed in the truck (we didn't even have to get out of the truck) then to Home Depot and the TSC store. Pretty exciting! Grandpa got me a big blow up Tony Stewart car with snowmen as a pit crew for our front yard. I can't wait to put it up! So exciting! And we went out to McDonald's for lunch. Then Emma and Auntie Carrie came for dinner and to play. On Friday we visited Papa again and then went geocaching at Hiawatha with aunt Jodie, uncle Paul and the two silly dogs. We walked forever and we never found the geocache. Their was supposed to be a red ribbon on a tree to tell us the second coordinates and I think the ribbon blew away. Oh well we had a great time anyhow and got hot chocolate to warm up afterwards. Then it was the big sleepover! First to Papa's for a very yummy dinner and to play and then to grandpa's for the big sleepover with aunt Carrie, aunt Jodie, and Emma. We played tons of games, won prizes and watched Ratatouille. It was a blast! Mommy and aunt Jodie fell asleep during the movie but not Emma and me! In the morning we had more fun playing and then we watched Evan Almighty...boy I love that movie. In the evening we went to great grandma Dukes. Had fun visiting with all the family and I especially enjoyed racing and playing shuffle board with Brandon and Courtney. Boy now that we're home I sure miss everyone in the Soo. But it was good to get home and visit with Tucker and Tony again. Tucker sure missed me!!

Tonight was my last swimming lesson until January. I got a report card from there too. I did such a great job in Swimmer 1! I can do a back float for 10 seconds by myself and I can jump in with no one hanging on now. Yahoo!!

That's all for now. With swimming lessons and parent/teacher interview today there was no time for homework. Oops! I better do twice as much tomorrow.

November

Once again no one has updated my blog in a VERY long time. I think Daddy has stopped doing it altogether. We haven't even had an update since I started school. Boy that's a long time ago!!

So what has happened since I last posted...Auntie Jodie and Uncle Paul did come to visit for almost a whole week and they brought their silly dogs. At first they didn't like Tucker's silliness but by the end of the week they were all friends. Tucker sure loved having playmates around and sure missed them when they left. It was exciting that they got to be here for my very first day at my new school. So exciting! I took them out to St Albert cheese factory to buy some curds and we all went to the Russell Fair. Riding the spinning penguins with Uncle Paul was my favorite. We practiced riding my two wheeler too but I still dont' have the hang of it...maybe one day. Oh and the most exciting news of their visit is that Auntie Jodie found out she is pregnant while they were here!! I am going to have another cousin. Neat!!

Now onto school...it took me a long time to adjust and at first I was crying every morning but then mommy told me to just keep telling myself that "I am brave...I will not cry" and guess what? I didn't cry anymore! My teacher is Ms Pepin. She's really nice and young...even younger then mommy I think. I have a lot of teachers though...I have Mrs Cameron for science and another teacher for music and then for reading I work with Mrs Beaupray. I'm in a special program and she's helping me read books all by myself. Yesterday I brought home a level 3 book and I could read the whole thing. Cool! It's pretty exciting to learn to read!! We got to the library every week too and we have gym. I've made lots of friends now and like playing with Ivan, Simon, Julia and Daniel. I also met two friends that live down the street Meghan and Emma. Meghan's been to play a bunch of times and we always have fun. She just loves Tucker.

I started swimming lessons again in September and this year I'm in Swimmer 1. I'm finally in a class with ALL boys! 4 other boys in my group and even my instructor is a boy. We get into trouble some weeks but I always have fun.

What else...I still love playing outside and after bringing Tucker for a walk after school we usually stay outside until supper time. So I get a few good hours to ploay and be crazy. Some nights (or weekends) we go visit Shannon and Nat. Shannon is the one who has a big tow truck...it's cool! And they have a brand new baby. We went to see her when she was only 1 day old in the hospital. I like to hold her hand and give her kisses.

What else is new...we went to the Senators Fanfest at Scotiabank Place back in September. And guess what?? We saw Daddy and Sylvie and Clark there so we sat with them. It was pretty cool to see all those hockey players up close. And we found out that Clark LOVES popcorn!! And at the end of September was the CIBC Run for the Cure for breast cancer. It was downtown and the walk from parking to the start of the walk was soooo long! We brought Tucker with us and registered him as well so we even put a t-shirt on Tucker. Lots of people took his picture...they thought he looked cute!

I still love spending time with Tony. We play PS2 all the time and cars and just hang out together. He brings me to school most mornings (mommy wakes me up before she leaves for work but it's really early in the morning) and then mommy is off in time to pick me up. But if it's Tony's day off then sometimes he picks me up and we hang out until mommy gets home from work. It's fun! And mommy goes to a fitness class one night a week so Tony puts me to bed on those nights...I get to stay up late. But shhhh...don't tell mommy!!

What else have we been up to...we went to the Meet The Teacher BBQ at my school and that was fun. I also did a Terry Fox Run at my school so mommy came to walk with me.

Oh we went to Metcalfe Fair too and got to watch a demolitian derby there and go on a bunch more rides and then just a few weeks ago we went to the big demolitian derby at the TSC store in Rockland! That was cool...crashum smashum in the parking lot! So this year I saw 3 demo derbies. They're so much fun!

Tucker is still growing like crazy. He's way bigger then me now. But I love him. We play all the time together and some nights he curls up at the end of my bed. This morning he was stretched out beside me with his nose on my pillow. Silly dog! He wants to share everything that I have...even my bath! He always comes in and wants to eat the soap and play in the bath bubbles while I'm in the tub but last week he actually climbed right in with me. Yup...he wanted to get clean too I guess. Silly dog! There wasn't room in there for the two of us.

I'm doing speech therapy again at school too. Maybe people will be able to understand me a bit better. I am really working hard at my c/g/th. It's getting there.

Tony's birthday was last week. He is getting old! So we had a good weekend together celebrating. We went for brunch at Lucky Seven and they had the coolest apple juice fountain. We got him a air hockey table and I think mommy and me like it as much as he does. I'm pretty good!

That's all of an udpate for now. I think that covers two months worth. Tomorrow is pizza day at school...yum! Then it's off to daddy's for the weekend.