Lost Tooth

Abby lost a tooth this morning.
I mean she really lost it.
Down the drain (we think).
Either that or she swallowed it!
I didn't even know it was that loose.
But as she was brushing her teeth before school this morning, out it fell.
In the chaos of her running into my room with toothpaste & blood dripping out of her mouth and me telling her to go rinse her mouth out with cold water - we realized we couldn't actually find the tooth.
So after a thorough search of the bathroom & bedroom floors, with no luck, we think it went down the drain.
Oops!

"Will the tooth-fairy still come if I can't find my tooth?"
"Sure she will, we'll just leave her a note, she'll understand."

Here's the note she wrote before going to bed:

It is now tucked safely into her tooth pillow waiting for the tooth-fairy's arrival.

Wordless Wednesday

  

Mr. Smartypants

Christopher is a very smart 5 year-old preschooler.  Out of the blue he will spout out facts about sharks or dinosaurs that Jim & I just look at him and say "where did you learn that".

We call him our "thinker".

This can be a bad thing sometimes -- such as when I want him to get dressed quickly so I give him his clothes, tell him to get dressed, and then leave the room.  Only to come back fifteen minutes later to find him naked laying on his floor because he got 'distracted' by something that caught his interest.

But this can also be a good thing.

Like a few weeks ago when we were sitting waiting for Abby during dance class and Chris - out of nowhere - starts reading the information wall.  "J-AN-U-A-RY.  That says January!"  Me - "You're right!!  What's the next line say?"  Chris - "H-A-PP-Y N-E-W Y-EA-R!"  Me - "Wow!"

And that's when I realized that Chris could read.

So after watching & listening to him sound out everything for a few weeks, I decided to give him a book that I haven't read to him in ages.  So I gave him Moo, Baa, LaLaLa by Sandra Boynton and he read it cover to cover with VERY little help from me (I did have to help him with the word Rhinoceroses!)!!  Needless to say I was pretty surprised & very proud of my little man.

Since then, I've been trying new books with him and he is continuing to surprise us.  He is even helping Abby (much to her chagrin) when she can't figure out a word in her nightly reading from school!

Maybe he's right when he says he wants to be a Paleontologist.  My neighbor always jokes and says he's the next Albert Einstein or real-life Doogie Houser.

Who knows?  Only time will tell, but for now we'll just stick to Dr. Suess!!

Never a Dull Moment...

There are some days that go as I expect and then there are other days that just don't.

Today was one of 'those' days.  

Jill & Brian were supposed to bring the girls over so that I could take pictures of Logan & Ava could play with the kids.  Amy & Mark were supposed to come over around lunch so that the guys could all go out while the girls stayed home & the kids played together.  It was supposed to be a fairly normal, uneventful, Saturday.

That is what was SUPPOSED to happen.

This is what ACTUALLY happened...

Jill & I started getting Logan ready for the photo shoot and I sent the kids upstairs to play.  Then there was a loud crash & even louder crying.  I ran upstairs to see Alex holding his head in the hallway, crying and telling me that the bunk-bed ladder fell on his head.  I picked him up, held his head, saw blood all over my hand and started screaming & running for Jim.  Jim took him from me, surveyed the cut and left for the ER. Jill & Brian & I found Ava crying in Alex's bed & Chris hiding in the downstairs bathroom.  I frantically grabbed socks & a sweatshirt for Alex and left for the ER.  Jill & Brian stayed home with Abby, Chris, Logan, & Ava and tried to piece together what happened.

2 1/2 hours later, we are home from the ER, with a very tired little boy who now has 3 staples in his head!  Thankfully Alex's injury was a superficial cut that did not cause any of the horrible head injuries that I envisioned over and over again as I drove to the ER!

Thanks to Jill & Brian's investigating, we now know that not only did the ladder fall, but Ava fell too. Thankfully all she has are a few nasty bruises and a new-found fear of bunk-beds.  We also now know that Chris was the one who asked her to climb up into his top bunk to get his favorite stuffed dog, hence the hiding in the bathroom afterwards.

Whoa!  Not exactly what I expected when I woke up this morning!!  

I just hope that tomorrow is a tad less eventful!

In the waiting room at the ER

Waiting for the numbing medicine to kick in before they stapled his head back together!

Ice Ice Baby

The ice storm we woke up to yesterday morning was so beautiful I just had to get outside to get some photos.  So Abby and I took our cameras and went out for a walk around the neighborhood.  Here's a few of my favorites.

my partner in crime - my budding photographer 

Alex the Superhero Shopper

Alex has been Jim's shopping buddy recently.  Every weekend when Jim does the grocery shopping for the week, Alex is always the first one to ask to tag along with him.  Apparently he likes the social aspect of it, he loves to say hi to everyone, ask them "what your name is?", and taste the food samples they have at Wegman's on the weekends.  A few weekends ago, we were having a lazy Saturday morning - still lounging in our pjs, when Jim asked "who wants to go to Wegman's with me?"  Of course, Alex did!  So we told him he needed to hurry up and go get ready.  A minute later, he ran into the living room shouting, "I'm ready!" with his sneakers on, right over his footed pjs.  Hysterical!  And yes, I did get him dressed before going, but not before I got these pictures of him.

This is a conversation I overheard recently:

Abby:  I want to be a teacher when I grow up!

Chris:  I want to be a paleontologist!

Alex:  I want to be IRONMAN when I grow up!

Hip Hip Hooray!!

I'm so proud of my little Tiger Girl who scored her first goal yesterday (in her last game of the season!).  Yay Abby!  Way to patiently wait for the perfect pass & the perfect opportunity to shoot on the goal!