Cover contest and Nickolas update

Hello family,

Well, I took D to take his picture on Sunday. He did a great job. Here's the outfit he wore....

And another pose for you....

The editor emailed me this "We plan on notifying the winner of the contest in a few weeks. Even if he is not selected as "the winner" of the cover contest, all of the children will be included in a photo page in the Winter issue." So that's pretty cool! Lucky for us that the magazine is free, so we will not have to incur any costs when we snap up a "few"! :)

For those of you wanting a Nickolas update, here's what I know.... Nickoas is playing the drums this year and still doing taekwondo. His goal is to make black belt! Sixth grade has a lot more homework. Also, he turns in a big project on Magdagascar this week! If you talk to him, ask him to share some of his new hard-earned knowledge on the country! We learned something new when he told us that it was an island!

Nickolas comes to Texas the Sat. before Thanksgiving. D asked me how long to Bubba comes the other day so we broke out the calendar and counted 5 weeks!

Well, we love you all! Tamiko

Cover Contest!

Hello All,

A local community magazine has selected D as a finalist for their cover contest! He is one of 15 who will get their picture taken on Sunday. The picture I submitted for the contest is below!

We are excited about this but are really over the moon about how well he has been doing lately. He is feeling good and has had great behavior at school and at soccer! I will post the latest soccer pics soon. Love you all, T

Nickolas' Sixth Grade Pictures

We just got the pictures a few minutes ago. Our kind neighbors brought them over to us because the mailman got our addresses mixed up again. 18806 and 16806 messes him up everytime!!

Poll question to be answered in comments section....In your opinion, how much does he look like his Dad? We love you all, T

Funny Sunday!

Today is our weekly football watching day! Hands-down its the Porter family's favorite day of the week in the fall! Donovan likes to see his favorite player Donovan McNabb play and Christopher enjoys back-to-back-to-back games. We were disappointed because our Texans lost a close one today. Too bad fans don't get to make suggestions on how to make the team better....we'd both suggest that they get a new quarterback!

Anyway, I found my misplaced camera battery charger (I don't know when I decided to put it in my spare purse). I looked and saw that I have some pictures to share. I put them in the slideshow in the corner. Below is a video I took today of Donovan being silly doing his wiggle dance! For the other football fans (Jonathan and Grandaddy), I uploaded a video of Donovan making his CBS Sportsline picks with Christopher on my youtube channel. Just click link on the right frame. We love you all, Tamiko

Another Spongebob Picture

Spongebob, his house and his pet snail, Gary!

Geez Louise!!

The not so quite subtle hints have been coming my way about posting! I will do my best to get back in the groove again! :)

Not much out of the norm has been going on. Donovan has been enjoying school, Christopher has been writing and I have been teaching. The report from Nickolas is that he is enjoying school as well. The sixth grade teachers send frequent emails updating parents on homework/activities so that has been helpful for Christopher.

I haven't taken many pics lately, but I will be giving the camera a work out soon as soccer season is now here!! The kids picked the team name of the Sharks! Their uniforms are the colors of the UofM which makes us quite uncomfortable (we are loyal to MSU)! Two of the kids from D's Spring team are on the team with him again. Kennedy and his special "friend" Faith. :)

Donovan enjoys reading (almost done with K sight word list, going to start first grade list soon), but his favorite activity these days is drawing and writing! One of his masterpieces is below. We think anyone who is a fan of Spongebob would be able to identify the characters and buildings in his picture! We love you all, T