On Carter's actual birthday was when we told the kids we were moving to Alabama, and so up until now his half birthday has been a period of adjustment at the idea of moving away from Tennessee and adjusting to a new home, state, friends, and school....it hasn't even felt like Carter has struggled with this adjustment AT ALL! I've been beyond impressed with all of the kids, really. Carter takes pride in the fact that he knows more about his school than me-Hah! I think it has made it feel like "his place" or something. We had a conference with Carter's teacher in September, and she bragged on Carter and made me very proud of him. Carter's so fun-loving, but at school he knows when to stop, listen, and follow directions. He's very smart, and his teacher is trying to challenge him. I am also trying to challenge him at home by continuing to work on the rest of his multiplication times tables, continuing to find books he will be interested in that challenge him to read, etc. Right now his favorite thing is math, but now that he's gotten into more interesting chapter books he loves reading almost as much. He's been reading Magic Treehouse books and the Berenstain Bears chapter books, has finished almost all the Junie B. Jones books now, he's read almost all (if not all) of the Horrible Harry books, and has read all the My Weird School Book Series too. He and Dawson fly through books so fast (and comprehend them!) that it's hard to stay caught up without constantly buying books or running to the public library. Carter's teacher has done a lot of science with them this year and Carter loves this. He was really particularly interested in their unit on trees and chlorophyll AND their unit on evaporation. I feel like I work with the kids a lot on math and reading at home, but not much science at all, so this may be part of the reason he has been so intrigued and interested with all the science units.
Carter has made lots friends! He's always been outgoing and liked making friends, and I love this about him. He quickly buddied up with his friend Henry at choir on Wednesday nights and every time we get together with his family to swim or visit. He has also enjoyed playing with several other friends from church. In his class at school he seems to play with everyone. He talks about different kids almost every day. Carter always seems so comfortable with himself just to play what he wants to play and be able to play what whoever and make new friends so easily.
Carter is still our comedian! I absolutely love this characteristic about him. He loves to make us laugh...especially loves to make Clayton laugh. And he comes up with the funniest things! Oh, he's definitely our comic relief. I hope he keeps this part of her personality as he grows older, I just love how his brown eyes sparkle and he gets that sly little smile as he's telling us something hilarious.
As a recap over the last six months, since this is his half birthday-Carter played spring soccer and is playing fall soccer. He LOVES soccer, and he's really pretty good at it.
We love our sweet, sweet brown eyed six AND A HALF year old Carter so very much. I couldn't imagine our family without the compassion, intensity, competitiveness, kisses, hugs, laughter, and love that he brings to our family! Happy big 6 and a half birthday, Carter!
On Carter's 1/2 birthday we took a little walk around the neighborhood lake, and I captured a few pictures of him at exactly six and a half with the lake and the wildflowers in the background.
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