Meeker Family Update

Holy moly!!! It has been INSANELY busy around here with school being back in full swing!!! I swear the kids JUST started back to school last week but then they just brought home their progress reports this past Friday which means....they are HALF-WAY through their first quarter!!! AHHH!!!! Where does the time go! So here's a little glimpse at what we've been up to.

We'll start with the littlest Meeker. Tatum is LOVING preschool and she LOVES going 3 days a week. She just learned a new song that she has been singing over and over. I had to capture it on video because it is pretty darn cute! Here she is singing "Wiggley Tooth:"


Maxwell has been tearing it up in the 1st grade. He has been DYING to take AR reading tests like Carlie and Ethan and he FINALLY got the go-ahead so he has been reading like CRAZY and taking AR test every day! He is also in baseball this year! He is actually playing "coach-pitch" baseball with his friend Carter H. He has his first game this Thursday! Can't wait!!!


Ethan has made such HUGE improvements in school these past 4 weeks. He is working harder on his reading and writing and it definitely shows. He's moved onto bigger and better chapter books and I can finally here his speech improving each and every day--he has been in speech therapy for 2 years now just for his "R" sounds and I think this may be his last semester of it! YAHOO!!! He is also starting flag football with his good friend Kyle H. His practices start here in the next 2 weeks!!!


Carlie has been rockin' it at school with near perfect scores in everything. She is her teacher's official "TA" (teacher's assistant) and loves grading/filing/writing on the board for Mrs. Tibke. She has also been involved in auditions for more music theater stuff! I am still learning all the ins and outs of this whole business. But she had a HUGE audition this past week--1 audition for 4 different shows--and we just found out that she was cast in "Bye Bye Birdie" and then she had a HUGE callback for "Annie" which is being done again by a different company. She is 1 of 5 girls being considered for the actual "Annie" part. I'm not sure that she will get to be "Annie" mostly because we are going to be gone for a solid 6 days at the beginning of December which the company knows about and I'm pretty sure that will lessen her chances:( But it's all good. She would be thrilled to be an orphan again--we won't find out results of this until November. So for now it's all about "Bye Bye Birdie!" YAHOO!!! Here is her head shot that is on her official resume! LOVE this pic (done by my good friend Sarah Goodman:)