Three Things

I am doing a "three things" update again on the kids.  It is a nice way to go back and see what they were up to at a certain point in time (the last one I did was sometime in the Spring).

Hannah

ONE- Hannah is in third grade now and is having a good school year so far.  She has a wonderful teacher and several of her old friends in class.  Her favorite part about her new classroom is that her teacher doesn't have assigned seating and has different sitting options such as balls ect.  She really enjoys reading now (that was the one thing she struggled with a little bit in Kindergarten).  

TWO- Hannah still enjoys a lot of after school activities.  She is playing Fall Softball twice a week, goes to gymnastics once a week (and she spends half her life upside down at home.....always doing a handstand, cartwheel or backbend) and Girls Scouts.  She also really likes having a friend over to play even though she doesn't like it when her little brother and sister want to play with them.  

THREE- Hannah likes to have her quiet time sometimes and just read or listen to music or braid her dolls hair.  She is a wonderful big sister to Evan and Nora despite the fighting.  Hannah and Evan are very competitive when it comes to playing any type of game, whether it is a board game or a round of soccer.  She is not a very good loser and will not let Evan win.  

Evan

ONE- Evan is in his last year of preschool and he goes three days a week now.  He is having a really hard time adjusting to school again.  It is so heartbreaking to see him cry and get sad.  He already  starts to get sad the night before school.  He says that he just misses us so much.  We sent a family picture with him to school now, so when he gets sad he can look at it.  I am hoping that he will just need a few more weeks to get adjusted.  It is so though to see him sad!

TWO- Evan loves to play games.  Any kind of game.  Board games, card games, soccer, football, basketball, races, obstacle courses, made up games and the list goes on and on.  He wants to be doing something every minute of the day and he has lots of ideas.  He always says that we are playing the "championship game".  He likes to win, but he is also a very good loser (especially in comparison to Hannah).  

THREE- Evan is a very sweet boy with a tender heart.  He tells us "I love you" all of the time.  He likes to make everybody happy and is always the first one to come up with a compromise.  He always says "How about we do this....." and tries to come up with a fair way of doing things.  

The other day he told me that he likes Christmas better than his birthday.  I asked him why and he said that at Christmas you get presents and no shots and on your birthday you get presents, but then you have to go in to the doctor to get shots.    

Nora

ONE- Nora is a little firecracker.  It is Nora's world and we all live in it.  She doesn't lack any personality.  She is super funny, talks a lot and doesn't have time to snuggle, sit or read.  She is always on the go.  She seems so much older than 2 (I know she is getting close to 3, but for right now she is still 2......I am in denial that she will be 3 soon), she does everything the other kids do.

She recently started saying "I love you super much and bigger much", so now that is something we all say to her too.

TWO- Nora is going to preschool three days a week as well and she loves it.  She said this morning she is going to check on Evan, because he was sad at drop off.  She said she would bring her friends to go check on him.  She asks me every morning if she has school today.  

THREE- She loves to play with her baby dolls and is a great little mother.  She packs them up and they have to come with us a lot of the times.  She can't just pick one, there are always at least 3 dolls. 

Nora is very close to Evan and they have been sleeping in the same bed for the last few weeks.  Since then she has finally been staying in her bed all night.  I still have a monitor in her room and it is funny to hear them talk in the morning right after they wake up.  Evan was teaching Nora how to play "rock, paper scissors", so now that's what they do every morning.  Nora pretty much does paper every time and Evan continues to try and teach her.....