What is this sound? Silence?

Today I picked up Carter from school.  He's excited.  He has the class' Curious George Monkey to take on his adventure this weekend and then he will write all about it in the diary, then bring it back to school and another kid will take him home Tuesday night.  I drive him straight to my parent's house where he joins Etienne and they'll all spend their weekend on the boat.

I used this excited, happy mood to tell Carter some news I'd been dreading telling him.  Paul and Henri are going to Canada for the next week.  I thought Carter would be upset that Henri got to go see Nana and Papa and he didn't .  His response, "Woohoo, Henri's going away!"  Well, that went better than I expected.  Guess I chose a good time to tell him.

Henri, however, cried the entire way home after dropping Carter off at my parents' house.

Evergreen State Fair

Since Tuesday was pouring down rain, we changed our plan of heading to the Evergreen state fair to Thursday-Carter was off school and our original plans fell through.  Etienne was up visiting my parents so we said we'd take him.  When mom seemed hesitant to send me alone with 4 kids to the fair, I roped Amanda into bringing her two boys so we could divide & conquer. 

Amanda came to get Etienne from my house.  Etienne fell in the driveway, Henri fell on the sidewalk and got a big goose egg on his forehead, Carter fell within the first 5 minutes of the fair...

First we saw the special dinosaur exhibit that required separate admission.  It was pretty lame, I have to say, animatronic dinosaurs.  Carter refused to go near T-Rex. To explain the lameless.  This is the ride.

You sit on it and pay $2 for the priviledge.

At least it got way better after that.  Then Carter & Etienne tried a game, catch a plastic fish, they weigh it, you get a prize based on the weight, everyone wins.

Then we headed to the rides.  Henri was too short for any of them.

 so Henri waited...

while we were waiting we did run into my friend's parents, however!

The last ride, We only had 3 more tickets, so I gave them to Etienne to go on the slide, Amanda had her kids pick a number between 1 and 10 and Xander won their 3 tickets in order to go on a car ride.  Drew started crying when he figured out he and Carter didn't get to go and the operator felt bad and let Drew and Carter on anyways... 

Next we ate: Cotton Candy, Onion Rings, Funnel Cake, Scones and Lemonade slush

Then we headed indoors as it was getting hot, we watched a puppet show...

Then saw the animals...

then got in the car where everyone fell asleep.

Carter's first day of Kindergarten-Part 2

Carter's words:

I had Kindergarten today.  It was AWESOME! My favorite part was all of it.  We have two recesses.  1 is long, 1 is short.  My teacher has two kids, their dad is 33.  She has a girl that is 5 that started Kindergarten at my school, her boy is 1 and a half.  I like my teacher.  I ate all of my lunch for lunch and snack.  There are no naps at Kindergarten. 

Carter's first day of Kindergarten-Part 1

So of course since I wanted to be early for the first day since I accidently missed the open house, we were running late.  We walked and did make it right after the bell.  Carter is really excited for Kindgergarten and we dropped him off this morning.

Valerie 1 month appointment, at 5 weeks

At birth, Valerie was 5 pounds, 10 ounces.  She left the hospital the next day at 5 pounds, 4 ounces.  At one week she was 5 pounds, 11 ounces.

At 5 weeks, she is EIGHT pounds, 21 inches!  Woohoo!

Feedings are going well, I am also able to pump another 4-8 ounces a day to freeze for future use.  She's now getting up only every 2-3 hours to eat at night