Gotta love it!

I said to my daughter, "You are not in charge of your brother. I am." She replies, "That is why I want a sister!" and storms off!

Sleep over with the tooth fairy

Baby girl's tooth came out today. That tooth has been hanging on for 4 months at least. Today was the day it gave up the will to hold on.

Baby girl was very happy. Her friend was coming for a sleepover. This was exciting because now they were like "twins". The child had lost her tooth when baby girl had slept over last.

They wanted to sleep in the pop up house in the sun-room. I didn't see a problem with that until I remembered the fairy visit.

I asked baby girl where she had the tooth and she showed me under her pillow. Her head was in a good position. There is a crawl hole that the pillow was parked right in front of.

"Jackpot" I think to myself. This will make maneuvering the tooth out from under the pillow easy. The tooth fairy will only have to reach her hand into the hole and grab the tooth. Then she can leave her fairy dust on both children and put the dollar and small gift under the pillow with ease.

Think again. When the tooth fairy came to visit she saw that part of the pillow was sticking out of the hole. She reached her hand in...nothing. She reached further...nothing. She slid to the right...kids start to move and breathing pattern changes.

"Oh no" thinks the tooth fairy. She pauses. She tries not to breath. She hears them both readjust. Her hand is stuck under the pillow. Luckily the cover of the tent/house is blocking the children from viewing her.

She stays as still as possible until the breathing becomes regular again. Then she pulls her hand out. She abandons the hole idea and lifts the corner of the structure. It is a bit akward but she slides her hand in. Too far to the left. She makes contact with "Bear". HMMM

She lifts another part of the tent. She gets her arm in. She feels a corner of plastic. (The tooth was in a ziplock) Her index and middle fingers have made contact. She tries to reach in further but Baby Girl is right on top of it. To move anymore would wake her.

The wires of the pop up tent started to dig into the Tooth Fairy's arm. Her fingers start to cramp as she could only move their ends to grab the corner of the ziplock. She tugged and tugged and it only moved a centimeter. So she moved it slowly even with the cramp.

Finally she freed the tooth from the pillow's grasp. She did a silent cheer for this great triumph.

Then it dawned on her. "Shoot" she thought. The small gift, glitter, and dollar were not under the pillow.

She grabbed the small gift because it was the lumpiest. She strategically placed it under the pillow so that it would not wake the child.

She kept her hand under the pillow to not jostle the child when she placed the dollar. "I am an idiot!" she scolded herself silently. The dollar was out of her grasp. In the effort to extract the tooth she had managed to push the dollar out of her reach.

She finally did some gymnastics style stretching with her feet while trying to be motionless with her hands. The dollar was then quickly shoved under the pillow.

She went out into the living room and told the child's father. "There will be no fairy dust tonight. I am sorry but it is too risky."

Her daddy and I are very happy that the Tooth Fairy was able to visit without discovery. I pray she has an easier time her next visit!

Puppy love

Baby boy came up to me tonight. He had tears in his eyes and he hugged me. I asked him what was wrong. He replied,"Mommy, you let the dog lick you but you won't let me. That means you love her more."

Okay...so here I should have had the gentle sensitive response. Instead I started laughing. His statement came out of left field.

I said, "Baby I don't like the dog to lick me either. Don't worry I love you and your sister best!"

The day's adventures

Baby girl's friend had a party with all her best girlfriends. They had a blast. Thanks to Mrs. Michelle for the special treat!

I know I was snap happy. This wasn't all the photos but I didn't want to overwhelm you all. The kids danced in the disco style limo on the way to and from the salon. The girls were bathed in glitter.

This was on our way.




The Spa Process












Best friends!


The fabulous group!

Forgive my narration of the fashion show. I know not what I do. We were practicing for the big one with all the girls. It ended up blurry so I had to use this one. Baby girl was going for silly she told me. Her friend was going for runway.

On the way back home.


The hair front and back.

More fun

This week the kids are going to Music and Art camp. They are having fun. The first thing they tell me when they are picked up is what the snack of the day is.

Tomorrow Baby boy will get to see a "Secret Agent/Magic show" on a daddy date.

Later that day Baby girl & I will be going to "Sweet and Sassy". Her friend is having a party where the pink limo comes and picks everyone up. They should get fancy hair, makeup, mani/pedicure, and possibly a facial. I will take pictures and post them.

Holiday

We had a wonderful weekend with Aunt Bekah and Uncle Andy and Cousin H. We ate and ate. We woke up early and played hard. We went to museums and watched fireworks. We went to the pool and down water slides. We drew pictures from our imagination.

These pictures are of the chocolate dipped strawberries. We had powdered sugar and sprinkles too.