Picture Day

Caramel's first grade picture. She was happy to wear this blue church dress she picked out. For her hair she wouldn't allow a bow or anything fancy, but I did a little braid in on the side. Caramel is enjoying 1st grade. When she writes her routine list of people she loves Mrs. Leek is included. Her normal list has 3 sections- immediate family, grandparents, and lastly cousins. A regular time she makes these list is during Rhett's soccer games or practice.

She had an ear infection on a Monday, lucky the pain only lasted a day. The night sleep wasn't so great, so she stayed home from school. She didn't stay home the whole day though. By lunch time she wanted to go to school, so she did. That whole week her ear drained. It was a bit of a fight to clean the outer ear and hair everyday. I guess that was better than her having ear pain for a week. Couldn't believe all the fluid that came out.

Rhett has 2 weeks left of "soccering." He is getting more interested in the game. Now that he understands that making a goal is the point, he gets frustrated that he can't make this happen during a game. One main skill he lacks is after receiving the ball turning quickly towards the correct goal to run towards it. As you can see in the picture Rhett is on the short side, but is also the youngest. Makes me smile to think of his little legs running as fast as he can.

One Saturday he had practice and two games. That afternoon he fell asleep in the car for a little then did again in the evening taking a two hour nap. He got his exercise in the that day. Rhett hasn't napped since summer when we had longer days out in the sun.

 

No official picture day for Myles. Here is a picture I took in the backyard. The weather has been cold but sunny lately. Myles loves the outside and pushing things. There is a spot he goes directly to- a flower pot that always has great mud- so annoying. He has to have a bath after being outside each time now. This picture is after he had some splashing fun. Love the contently pushing along look.