Potpourri
I can't believe I haven't updated this in a month. I continually think about it but there's just never enough time to upload the pictures and do the writing these days.
Hunter is doing fabulously at Kindergarten and absolutely loving it. It continually surprises me just how popular he is, after so many worries about him being the youngest, smallest, etc. Whenever we arrive at the playground there's choruses of "Hunter! Hunter!" and many from older kids not even in his class. It's wonderful.
Also 100% toilet trained and has been for 3-4 weeks now. :-D :-D :-D WTG Hunter!!!!
The not so wonderful is that Hunter has slipped into the third percentile for his height and/or weight (not quite sure which), which means that 97% of children are bigger than he is, which is a concern. So the Doctor sent him for Thyroid testing and we're checking in in two months about his height. Whether this will eventually lead to growth hormones or something bigger, remains to be seen.
At the Doctor's office:
And at the hospital for his blood test:
He was such a trooper about it all, didn't even cry. Still awaiting results.
After much mind-changing (Superhero Guy again, Bumblebee, Batman, Flash..) we finally got Hunter's Halloween costume, IRON MAN!
And there will be more pictures soon, as I got sent home some of his school work and Nana is back today after being in Crete since Sept 30th and we're off to the airport in a few hours to pick her up with Lolo and Bruce. :-D
It was quite a day when these were taken and I was quite touched but his empathy on that day. I was having an awful morning really -- stuck out of the house without enough time to return, lost wallet, exhausted, too hot -- that sort of rotten day. I finally organized myself and sat down at a Dairy Queen with Hunter and he gives me this look and says "Tell me about your bad day." It was quite touching. :-)
We held an early birthday for me at the end of September, since my mother was off to Crete on my actual birthday. Dan and Jenn came over and it was a blast. Hunter did some tshirt painting and had a ton of fun.
Sorry about the collage-a-thon but after so long I didn't want to post 80 pictures.
Hunter is doing fabulously at Kindergarten and absolutely loving it. It continually surprises me just how popular he is, after so many worries about him being the youngest, smallest, etc. Whenever we arrive at the playground there's choruses of "Hunter! Hunter!" and many from older kids not even in his class. It's wonderful.
Also 100% toilet trained and has been for 3-4 weeks now. :-D :-D :-D WTG Hunter!!!!
The not so wonderful is that Hunter has slipped into the third percentile for his height and/or weight (not quite sure which), which means that 97% of children are bigger than he is, which is a concern. So the Doctor sent him for Thyroid testing and we're checking in in two months about his height. Whether this will eventually lead to growth hormones or something bigger, remains to be seen.
At the Doctor's office:
And at the hospital for his blood test:
He was such a trooper about it all, didn't even cry. Still awaiting results.
After much mind-changing (Superhero Guy again, Bumblebee, Batman, Flash..) we finally got Hunter's Halloween costume, IRON MAN!
And there will be more pictures soon, as I got sent home some of his school work and Nana is back today after being in Crete since Sept 30th and we're off to the airport in a few hours to pick her up with Lolo and Bruce. :-D
It was quite a day when these were taken and I was quite touched but his empathy on that day. I was having an awful morning really -- stuck out of the house without enough time to return, lost wallet, exhausted, too hot -- that sort of rotten day. I finally organized myself and sat down at a Dairy Queen with Hunter and he gives me this look and says "Tell me about your bad day." It was quite touching. :-)
We held an early birthday for me at the end of September, since my mother was off to Crete on my actual birthday. Dan and Jenn came over and it was a blast. Hunter did some tshirt painting and had a ton of fun.
Sorry about the collage-a-thon but after so long I didn't want to post 80 pictures.