A Tale of a Tooth

A Tale of a Tooth

By Evelyn B.

 

My tooth was loose for a long time.

I played with my tooth when I laid down on the floor.

I twisted it.  And then it came out.

I held it up to see it, but I dropped it.  I lost it.

We looked for it so we can give it to the Tooth Fairy.

We still can't find it.

 

Ammendment by Mom:  

We did find the tooth.  She had lost it on the floor in my room, which is bone-toned with some flecks of red, blue and black.  We found it eventually, after a couple hours, then a couple hours of ignoring the problem, then another 5 minutes of searching.

 

We decided to make a little pillow to hang, so the Tooth Fairy would have an easier time doing her job.  Since Evie slept in the living room last night, we hung the pillow on the closet door.  The tooth is a pocket to hold the tooth and, later, the prize.  The whole thing is a little bigger than I initially planned, but is cute nonetheless, and only took me half an hour to put together.

 

After some discussion, Aaron and I agreed that a dollar is a reasonable amount for a tooth fairy to leave,at least for a first tooth.  Having seen an idea online, I put a coat of pink-tinted sparkly nail polish on the face of the dollar, to help with the illusion of fantasy.

 

Evie ran and woke us up this morning, SO thrilled with her sparkly tooth money!  She was also anxious to spend it, so this evening, we allowed her to spend it on a package of skittles.  It's been such a fun experience for her to have a loose, then lost tooth!

Cole - 6 Months

My name is Cole.  I am six months old!

I love to sit up - in fact, if you lay me down, I'm probably going to fuss a bit.

I am okay with being on my tummy; when I'm on my tummy, I can grab at things or pull myself up on my hands and knees, which is really fun to do!

 

I think I'm a great singer and dancer!  I love to bounce - sitting, standing or laying down on someone's knees!  When I'm almost asleep, I start coo-ing, and Mommy thinks it sounds like I'm singing myself to sleep.

 

I LOVE to eat!  Rice cereal and pears are my current favorite, and I'll eat squash, peaches and bananas okay.  Put peas in my mouth and you're likely to be changing your shirt and mine. 

 

 I sleep great!  I like to take my naps either snuggling up with Mommy on the couch or swinging in my swing.  The crib's alright; I just get frustrated if I don't get noticed right away, then I wiggle and flip over until my head's up in a corner with blankets twisted and tossed around.

 

I have a tooth coming in, just barely under the gum, but Mommy can see it almost breaking through.  To make it feel better, I suck on my fingers, hand, thumb, toes or anything but a pacifier.  Then again, I always have liked to have things in my mouth, just not a pacifier.  Big sister, Evie, is also getting that tooth in, but she's getting it for the second time around! 

Zoo Day

We've made more good use of our ZooPass!

 

Lizzie, Carson, Cole and I met up with some friends from the ward.  Evidently, it was an unspoken ward party, since we met several other ward members on our wander through! 

 

Lizzie calls C. her 'best friend' and loves when I tell her we're going out with his family!  They love to compete - race around, be the highest, etc - and to be friendly, like walking around holding hands. 

 

Funny moment!  Carson saw this statue and stopped to wave.  Then he sat there having a little conversation for a minute or two before he lost interest and caught up to the rest of the group. 

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

While Evie's gone at school all day, we fill our days with dress up...

(Her royal highness requested a formal photograph for the day.  She was completely dolled up from the hat and scarf to a pair of pink sparkly high-heels, with accessories.  Watch out, world!)

 

And reading... 

(This was yesterday.  I thought it was so cute how Lizzie and Carson were sitting together, Lizzie reading/making up/reciting the books to him.) 

 

And Cole being adorable.  Lots of that.  I had so much fun with this moment with him.  I know he doesn't suck pacifiers.  But we have a couple on hand anyway.  So I set one on the couch for him to play with.  He reached; he grabbed; he pulled it toward himself; then he caught sight of me and dropped it and laughed.  I could just see him saying, "Silly Mom.  I don't need a paci...I've got my hand!" 

First Day of School!

I love all the little 'traditions' that go along with the begining of school!  Grandma B takes the school kid (s) out for shopping and lunch.  I take anyone who's willing to practice photography and get before-school-begins photos.  Resolutions are made - like 'we will hold family home evening more consistently this year' and 'I will go outside daily, but to/from car and mail runs don't count' and 'I will let Evie be more participatory in her school decisions'.  (It was terrible that last year I was really controlling about how her hair had to be done, what clothes she chose and what she ate.  Trying to release a little.)

 

This year, Evie and I took her school pictures both in our backyard and just past the neighbor's house on the railroad tracks.

 

Later, I took Lizzie to Grandma B's and on our way, we noticed that the water tower was being repainted - those guys look so tiny up there! 

 

Lizzie and I stopped in Prospect Hill, a tiny historic village between our home and Grandma's.  I've been wanting to take pictures there for some time, but either had no camera, no kids, too many kids, or no time.  This day was perfect!  Just Lizzie, camera in hand, leisurely trip.  Also, Lizzie is not in school this year; our elementary school has no 4-K program and she is far from making the cutoff.  So she and I will spend another year doing preschool crafts and simple learning!

 

The cute curly-ques in both their hairstyles are so fun!  I got them after they got their haircuts at JC Penney's so we would have something exciting for the beginning of school.

 

The first day of 1st grade finally arrived!  Evie was so ready to walk out that door and climb onto the bus, happy to greet her familiar bus driver and some friends. 

 

I wanted to get to the first PTO meeting of the year, so after I saw Evie off to school, I fed Cole and took him with me to her school.  (The two middles stayed home, where Aaron was up and getting ready to work on the bathroom remodel.  They were content to play PBS kids until I got back.)  Even though Evie was picked up early, and I didn't hurry out the door after her, I still beat her to the school.  (That's with parking dilemas!)  I grabbed her before she sat for a quick picture.

 

I was just so excited to do this in her hair!  It was in a small group of styles she was willing to let me try and I love it!  It's a smaller version of the laced French braids we did last year, and I think I like this variation so much better. 

 

Happy First Day of 1st Grade, Evie girl!

Fishing

Aaron, Dennis, David and Matt took several of the kids in our families down to Grandpa's pond to go fishing.  That dock was several months' work by Dennis and Aaron, but so worth it!  Jana went down with them and used my camera to take pictures.  I'm so glad she did - it means I didn't have to remember to get the pictures off hers for this.

 

Evie spent the majority of her time with Uncle David.  That kid sure can monopolize her aunts' and uncles' time!

 

She got a kick out of playing with this poor fish.  And the spot on her head was a mishap from earlier in the day.  As she was getting out of the pool from swimming time, she upset a wasp.  She spent a half hour cuddled in my lap with clay smeared on her forehead.  It was so sweet to snuggle her, since she almost never does like that anymore. 

 

Lizzie was bummed that she couldn't go fishing, but hopes to go on another trip sometime soon.  Instead, she spent her time on the playground and around the campfire.

 

Carson also missed out on fishing, but was thoroughly entertained everywhere else.

 

Some of the highlights of the evening were:

having five pizzas cooked and eating almost all of them!

singing 'happy birthday' to Uncle David

swimming, swimming and more swimming

lighting a campfire and roasting marshmallows

Grandma getting out glowsticks and running around in the dark with all the kids, all glowing

Color Run!

Aaron and I got to participate in Milwaukee's 2012 Color Run!  It was a lot of fun!  Neither of us intended to 'run' the run, but we did jog through each color station.  The premise of the race, which isn't timed, is that you begin the race in a white shirt and after each kilometer (of a 5K) you get 'splashed' with a cornstarch color powder in different colors, finishing with a super-colorful shirt.  We arrived what we thought was early, 6pm, since the race was to start at 7.  Unfortunately, most people had been there since 3, and we were in lines for registration and shirts and starting line for what seemed hours.  We left the start line at 7:45 and finished at 8:50, just over an hour.  And we were very colorful!  Here are shots from just after each station.

 

At the beginning - pristine!

 

This is what each station looked like.  A big cloud of dust, faintly hued whatever the color was. 

 

First K, yellow! 

 

Second K, blue! 

 

Third K, orange! 

 

Fourth K, pink!  (Though you can hardly tell at this point)

 

At the end, there was a festival of dust-throwing fun at the stage, but we didn't go into that.  For one, we were later than we thought (poor babysitter!) and for two, I wasn't sure my asthma could handle it.  But we took a picture from afar and enjoyed it anyway. 

 

SO, so much fun!