Awesome report card!!

Once again it's been a whole month since the last post. Daddy isn't updating at all anymore...silly daddy.

I have some great news! Yesterday we got our report cards and I did AWESOME!! Guess what?? I got TWO A's!! Can you believe it?? I'm so smart! I got an A- in reading (I read level 16 now...I really like to read) and an A- in Visual Arts. I love to draw and create. The rest of my marks were good too...lots of B's and 2 C's in French. But that will get easier too. My work in the classroom has gotten worse though. I don't have the intiative or work ethic anymore. Now that the work is getting easier I'm getting bored and just want to day dream about other things. And my crazy pet "Bananas" comes to school with me and distracts me all the time. He's just a popsicle stick but boy he causes a lot of trouble. He packs 100 bananas for lunch and eats them all day long. He makes such a mess!

What else is new in the past month. We finally got to go skating on the rink at the end of our street. It was only open for a couple of weeks and we only went twice. Next year we need to start on it a little earlier. We shovelled it and flooded it a few times but no one else was taking care of it. Kind of a bummer. And now we have way to much snow to work on it anymore. Mrs Pepin showed me how much snow we got 375cm so far...that's crazy!! It would bury the school and all the houses. Good thing we didn't get it all at once. We spent a lot of time shovelling outside and playing in the snow. This past week I had TWO snow days!! And it's storming again today. What a winter!! I wanted to ride my bike to the mailbox the other day but mommy said she can't even get to the shed never mind me biking on the street. We'll have to post pictures of our big snowbanks...they're taller then mommy and Tony.

We also celebrated Valentine's Day and I got a Webkinz. His name is Cowdog. I'm addicted!! I want to play Webkinz on the computer ALL the time. It's so much fun. Then the other day I got another one (a dalmation) and some army pants for Cowdog. Too cool!! I even got Aunt Kim hooked on it and she plays too. For Valentine's dinner we went to Shannon and Nat's to celebrate with them and Shannon's mom and Gaby. It was fun. I gave out Valentine's at school and got a lot from my friends but I ate too much candy that day and my tummy hurt.

Just after Valentine's Aunt Kim and Uncle Mike came up for the Family Day long weekend. We spent Saturday hanging out at home and playing in the snow. We went to the cheese factory and McDonald's and then had a BBQ for dinner. I was so happy to have visitors for the weekend. Aunt Kim calls our house the "zoo". I think it's about right. Tucker is an animal and he belongs in a zoo!! I was spoiled once again with treats for Valentine's, a bear and even Christmas gifts from Uncle Mike. I got a keyboard and the Racing Stripes movie. I'm so lucky!! On Sunday we went down to Winterlude to the ice slides but it wasn't so great. I didn't want to go and I was so grumpy the whole time we were there. It was way to busy to do anything...the lineups were too long. So Uncle Mike and I went on the sleigh ride and then I built my own fort out of the snow sculpture blocks and that was it. Pretty disappointing. On Monday our company went home and we went into Ottawa to take Tuck for a run at the dog park. He loves playing with other dogs. And we went to Tony's mom's for a late lunch. We hadn't seen her in a long time. Lots of fun!

I guess that's all that's new. This week is March Break so after my weekend with daddy I get to spend 7 days at home with mommy. Yahoo!!

Oh and I got 5/5 on my spelling test again yesterday!! Woohoo!

A real post

Finally a real post from the land of Carter!!

I haven't really posted anything since before Christmas and that was so long ago I don't even remember. We've been having lots of fun since then. The holidays went by too fast. I spent Christmas here with mommy and Tony and boy did we have fun. We went to Julia's house for a big dinner, and had Christmas dinner here at home. It was fun! Santa brought me LOTS of stuff and the rest of the family spoiled me too. I am so lucky! Thank you!! Santa left me a GPS but their must have been a mixup because he only left me the empty box. Can you believe it?? Auntie Carrie thinks Santa needed it to find his way home but I think the elves played a trick and kept it for themselves to go geocaching. Either way we went to those nice people at Canadian Tire and they filled the box. Thank goodness! But then we couldn't get that geocache to work properly so we brought it back and I finally got one that works and a few days after Christmas we found our first geocache with it. Right in our neighbourhood! It was pretty awesome!! We've gone out twice since then to find more caches but I think it's harder in the winter because we didn't find either one. We'll have to try again once some of this snow has melted...because did you know we have a TON of snow!! Anyhow back to Christmas...we had everyone here for Christmas dinner and then had a fireworks show in the backyard. It was so much fun! Dom was setting them off and he was making us laugh. He thought he was going to blow up. It was funny!

Hmm...what else is new. A few weeks ago my class went on the first field trip. We went to the NAC to see a production of How the Guamquat Found Her Voice. It was really neat! Mommy came along to volunteer so we had a great morning together.

Then a few weeks ago we decided to take a little vacation. We got up early on a Saturday and dropped Tucker off at the kennel and then went towards Sainte Sauveur. We went tubing for the day at Glissades! http://www.glissades.ca It was sooooo much fun!! We all had our own tubes and could pick them ourselves so we could get fast ones. Then they have his conveyer belt that runs up the mountain so you don't have to wait in any lines to get up to the top. That was so cool! We went down everytime hanging onto each other...Tony went so fast!! We got snow in our faces but it was great. We even did a bunch of the expert runs. We did one HUGE expert run and it was such a thrill I almost peed my pants. So much fun! We rented a hotel in Laval for the night and it had a pool but the heater was broke. We tried to swim anyways but it was way to cold. Oh well. We had breakfast there in the morning and then drove into Montreal. We got a bit lost but finally found the big car show. Wow...lots of people and lots of NICE cars. I liked the race cars. So that was a really fun weekend.

But when we got back Tucker got a little stressed sleeping at the kennel and he was really sick. We had to take him to the vet...he was pooping everywhere and all the time. We got him special pills and food and he's all better now. He's as crazy as ever!!

And the snow...we have a lot!! We had a lot before Christmas but then on Friday we had another big snow storm!! Last week I had a snow day on Wednesday and then a PD Day on Friday. Can't beat that! I still help shovel sometimes but I'm kind of sick of the snow. And usually when I try and shovel Tucker comes and steals my shovel...he thinks he can do a better job.

We had so much snow on Friday that I didn't go to daddy's. I just spent the weekend with Mommy instead. We just stayed home on Friday and Saturday but then on Sunday we went into town. First we went to Isabel's house in Kanata to finally bring her and Julia their Christmas gifts. We had a fun time visiting and playing together. Then we stopped at IKEA to get a shelf. And then went down to the canal to go skating. Turns out Tuck wasn't allowed on the ice so instead Tony walked on the path along the canal and mommy and I skated. I'm doing good on my skates I just need to learn to go forward now. The best part was stopping for Beaver Tails and hot chocolate. Yum!! After that it was late so we had to hurry to Julia's house for dinner. I played with Lyz and ate and then it was home to bed.

That's it for now. Just thought it was time for an update.

Perfect Score!!

This week I got perfect on my spelling test!! 5 new words and I spelt them all right and got all the letters right. Yahoo!!

My First Spelling Test

I had my first spelling test today. I've been practicing all week and guess what?! I got 4.5 our of 5!! My only mistake was that I wrote my "J" backwards in the word "jam". Yah for me! My other words were "cap", "sat", "bat" and "pan". I am doing great at school! I'm reading level 10 books now too. I'm a pro!

6 days till Christmas!

Christmas is less then one week away. Boy am I excited!! I had an extra long weekend at Daddy's house last weekend because of a HUGE snowstorm. Holy cow! Lots and lots and lots of snow. We made a big snow mountain in daddy's yard. So I had to sleepover on Sunday night because it was too snowy to drive anywhere. I got another snow day on Monday (the 3rd time this year) and got to go to work with daddy and then mommy picked me up there. Pretty fun!! Mommy and me went Christmas shopping in the afternoon. We got a bunch more gifts bought. Lots of stuff for Tony, Lyzbeth and Isabel and we even got some craft stuff for us. It was fun! Then it was time to come home and shovel. We've been shovelling so much. Seems like every day we have to shovel more and more and more. Usually I get tired of it pretty quickly and work on my snow fort instead. Emily came over a few times to play outside too. That was fun!

Monday night we got the tree in the house. And guess what?! It was too big!! So Tony had to borrow a saw from the neighbours and cut the tree...right in the house!! So silly!! Now it fits just perfectly. Like you can see in the picture. Didn't I do a great job decorating?? It was so much fun! And now the best part is that we can put presents under it. Yahoo! There's even a bunch for me under there.

Last night was the Christmas concert at my school. Daddy, Sylvie, Jordan and Clark came too. That was pretty special to have my whole family there. I wore an elf hat and sang two songs...one was even in french. Pretty fun!

That's all for now. Just wanted to share the picture of our special tree.

Eleven Days till Christmas!!

Christmas is only 11 days away!! Are you excited?? I am!!

Only one more week of school and then I am on holidays. I wish I was on holidays already. We're definately going to have a white Christmas this year. There is sooooo much snow!! I've been busy helping mommy and Tony shovel almost every day. And when that's done I get to play in the snow with Tucker. It's so much fun! I did all my Christmas shopping at school this year. I bought a bunch of gifts for people and this year I'm keeping it a secret until the big day. I'm so excited to see them open them. And for Santa...well I didn't write him a letter but I've decided that he can bring me anything he wants. Even girl toys! But if he brings me girl toys I am going to send them to Emma.

We went to get our tree the other day. We finally get to have a REAL tree! So we went out to find the tree farm but drove right by it so instead stopped at the cheese factory and then went back to the tree farm. But on the way I thought I saw something and told Tony to stop the car. He pulled over to the shoulder and got stuck in the deep snow. So mommy was trying to push the car out and then a man stopped to help. What an adventure! We finally got to the tree farm and got a saw and went to find the "perfect tree". Their sure were lots to choose from but I picked the BEST one. It's really big and bushy. Might even be too big for the house but we'll make it fit. For now it's drying in the garage but on Sunday we get to decorate it. So exciting!

We've been having lots of fun in the evenings just playing outside and inside. I really love Monopoly Junior. It's a lot of fun! Oh and I had a doctor's appointment this week and was soooooo brave. I got a flu shot and it stung my arm but I hardly cried.

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.