Mom, Preschool,Carpet, Colds, and Halloween

There's a lot of pictures because so much has happened that this is the only way I can catch up! I do a "joy" school type preschool with Benjamin in one group and Carsten in another. It's been good for the boys to have their own groups at their levels but that means I've had preschool in my home for the last 2 weeks and I have one more week to go. Things always get a little crazy when it's my turn for a week so 3 straight weeks is really putting me behind.

Sophie had her parent/teacher conference and she is doing great. She's a bit of a chatter box (which we already knew) but is acing everything. She attends a small charter school has had the same classmates since kindergarten. A big bonus because I know all the students and parents but it does add to the chattiness level.

After a year long struggle with potty training Carsten I think we've made the jump. He was pretty much trained until camping season came and he wouldn't use the pit toilets because there were bears in there. So the "Bear toilets" put a complete stop to our underwear days and we were back to square one. Wednesday he asked for underwear and has wanted them since. Of course with brand new carpet I wasn't sure I was ready to go there until we were absolutely sure it could be done. Anyway we've had 2 accident free days, we won't mention the other days, and has decided that he wants underwear at night. We'll see what happens. Between the gas price going down and not having to buy pull ups anymore we've gotten a bit of a raise! :)

To add a bit to my getting over my carpet anxiety we have been dog sitting. Bear is a great dog but everytime we watch him Matt and I realize we are not dog people. Bear is Sophie's pal and sleeps by her bed every night he was here. Sophie would love one but NO WAY!

The pictures below are in the order they've occured in our life.

Benjamin in his new gee. He is so proud!

Mom and Sophie girl!

Benjamin's cow eating grass. We did a farm unit and made homemade butter. The next class we did the story of the Little Red Hen and made bread.

Making carpet angels on our new carpet. After 3 years we finally replaced all the carpet downstairs and in the bedrooms.

Carsten's Halloween preschool we did spider webs and spider shrink- a- dinks.

My little Kung Fu Panda crew. Sophie was Tigresse (I didn't get all the stripes on...oh well) B. is Po the Panda and C. is the Leopard. Josette was the master. Thanks Mom!

Matt made these great laterns to line our front walk. There was a different image on each side. They looked really cool in front of the house. Great job Hon!