Elizabeth mad the all A honor roll at school for the first nine weeks. There were only two others in her class to make the all A list. We are extremely proud of her. She has had to work hard this year as Third grade has really stepped up the learning material and intensity. 
We also had a parent teacher conference with Elizabeth's teacher. We went over all the usual stuff and they gave us some of her test results back from the beginning of the school year. The whole school takes a test called the SAT10. Yes, it's a smaller version of the one we all took to get into college. Miss Elizabeth scored a 1421 out of 1500. 706 in comprehension and 715 in math and problem solving. We are so proud of here for scoring this high!! I mean WOW!!!!! They have also tested them with another test and Elizabeth is reading on a 6th grade 3 month level and doing math on a 5th grade 5th month level. Remember, she started Kindergarten early and is actually only supposed to be in 2nd grade this year. So, they are finally going to test her for the Gifted and Talented program. If she is accepted she will have to change schools. We feel this would be great thing for her. The teachers are having a tough time keeping up with how fast she is moving and they keep trying to keep her challenged. In the G&T program she would fit right in! I will let you know how the testing goes.
Potty training is a day to day thing around here. You never know which day Banastre will want to go and when he doesn't. We are still a work in progress. But hopefully he will be done by his third birthday!! (Don't you just love that second pic...he was in full model mode this day!!!Look at the swing of the hair!)
Tuesday we did the requisite Jack-o-lantern. Banastre and Elizabeth were very excited and all ready to help Daddy. Once the top was off and one look inside, Banastre decided to just watch and let Daddy and Elizabeth take care of it. He loves the finished product and even enjoyed eating the pumpkin seeds. Now, he is all excited about tonight. I can't wait to see him all dressed up...but no hints on costumes. I will get the pics up this weekend when I'm off work!! Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!
Matt and I have a friend that works for Disney. One night in the hot tub he casually mentions that Disney is hosting a fireworks convention and will be dong special fireworks on the next Saturday night. Not many people know, Jason said. So, we decide we should really go check these out. It's the same night as the carnival I talked about below. The kids were tired, but we decided to hit Magic Kingdom for a few rides and then find us a spot to watch the fireworks. After our usual rides, we headed over to Disney's Polynesian Resort to find us a spot on the beach. Things started out really good. Not many people, but we are an hour early. Found a great spot. Watched the floating electrical parade out on the lake. Kids played in the sand. By the time the fireworks started (20 minutes late), there had to be over a thousand people crowding the tiny beach at the Poly. The smart Tarleton's we are though, we let the kids play in a huge area in front of us. We didn't encourage quiet or sitting still and guess what...no one sat in front of us. We had our own little section of the beach. 
