Going, going, GONE!

On October 31st Kylie discovered that her tooth was ‘bendy’, and was absolutely thrilled!!  She has been dying to lose a tooth for a LONG time now!  I grabbed the camera and took a quick video of her (pardon, the unbrushed hair, the dress-up that is falling off, and her excited strange behavior!) 

Kylie’s tooth has been loose for 2 weeks now and it hasn’t changed too much, but after giving her an apple in her lunch her tooth became REALLY wiggly!  A friends son lost his tooth accidentally (I think he was 2?) and she posted the last picture of his smile before he lost it and it got me thinking.   So Saturday morning I took a few pictures of her ‘last smiles’.

 

You really can’t tell here, but she closed her teeth with the tooth on the wrong side.  It is in front of her top tooth instead of behind it since it is so loose.

I’m glad I took the pictures because she lost the tooth the next day!  She actually made it all the way through the day, and when I was tucking her in to bed I asked if I could try to pull it out.  (It was barely hanging on and I really, really didn’t want her to lose it at school and possibly lose it!)  She said I could try, but only if I agreed to put a piece of candy in her lunch!  That’s my girl!!  I’m not sure who was more nervous, me or Kylie!  I grabbed it and chickened out and let go as I pulled, I got it on the second try though! 

She cried for half a second and just looked shocked!   You can see the tears in the first 2 pictures  :0(

I had her close her eyes and put her in front of the mirror, and took a picture of her checking out her lack of tooth for the first time!

 

And checked it out, and checked it out!

    

Isn’t that a cute toothless grin?!

I can’t believe how tiny it was, It seemed smaller once it was out!

She told me she was going to put it back in!  Silly girl!

Showing off her new tooth pillow

And sharing the news!

And here she is, my toothless girl!  I snapped a few ‘afters’ when she got home from school today.  Isn’t she cute??

 

I forgot to video her after she lost it, so I’ll have to try to do that tomorrow…

Lost

Kylie lost her first tooth last night, and then lost it tonight!!!  We went to Pizza Hut for dinner to celebrate Daddy coming home, her tooth, and we had her Book-it to use.  When we were there I saw that Kylie had the baggie her tooth had been in in her purse, and it was OPEN!!!  Ack!  I took everything out slowly one at a time and didn't find it.  I looked through everything again, and we looked on the floor and all around with no luck.  There was a chance it could be at home (since that is where she put the open bag in her purse), so when we got home I crawled around the family room and looked in the foyer (the 2 places she said she was with it) and didn't find it!  I mean seriously, the cat lost a tooth and we found it!

I didn't give up, and I finally found it!!  Under the kitchen table!  I have no idea how it got there, but I am just thrilled that I found it!!  Crisis averted, shew!  Humm, this isn’t the first time Kylie almost lost a tooth… Anyone remember the first time??  Sigh!  (Pictures coming soon, Promise!)

Happy 3rd Birthday Brody!

Like I told you in the post below my little man turned 3 just over a month ago.

 Man, I really should have fixed his hair real quick!  He looks so shabby!

Showing me how many he is, it’s hard work to get the right fingers up and the wrong ones down!

SO excited …over the gift mommy got on clearance (oh yeah!)

He got a Cars paper set, notebooks, pencils, rulers… the works!

 

He also got a worklight like Daddy’s!

And a motorcycle engine he can take apart and rebuild!

and the last of his steel trucks

I made blonde brownies since his party was the next day and we didn’t need 2 cakes.  He didn’t mind, he just likes blowing the candles out!

Happy Birthday Buddy!!

Ok, so a month (yes a MONTH) ago my little bugger turned 3!  Sniff, sniff.  My baby is growing up!

I tried snapping a few pictures of him before his party, but he didn’t really care!

I did get a few good ones…

…and this one!  Ha-haaa!   He had a Cars themed party and Gramma Murphy made him his very own plate of 3D car jigglers!  

He got a lot of cool presents…

His first very own Harley shirt!

Yeah, it’s a recorder… I could kill you for this one Jody!  :0)

Ha-haa!  This one makes me laugh too!  He got gold dollar coins from Gramma Murphy and he threw his head back and squealed Mooonneeeey!  …and that is what it looks like in a picture!

Brody loves blowing out candles.  Any type of fire actually!  He’ll dig around and find the clicker (the click flame thingy) and bring it to us to light so he can blow it out!

Happy Birthday Buddy!!  I can’t wait to see what this year is like…

Where do I even start?

This morning started off just as any other morning.  …except one thing, we now have a wood burning furnace.  Brody comes downstairs a little too early (just like every other morning!) so I brought him back to bed and added some wood to the furnace and hopped in the shower. 

While in the shower I started to smell the furnace, we seasoned it (having small fires and building up to bigger fires) yesterday and it lets off this odd odor which is completely normal, that is what I was smelling again.  So of course being in the shower and not being able to do anything I was a little concerned and knew I would be checking on it as soon as I got out!  But it beat me to the punch, the smoke detector started going off, ALL of them (they are all linked together, they’re supposed to all go off)!

I jump out of the shower (covered in soap and conditioner), grab a towel and run to the basement.  I still smell no smoke, just the stinky smell but I have no idea if my basement is on fire or what.  Everything looks fine down there, and I open the furnace and all looks good in there too, so I run back up stairs to check everything else out.  As I pass the stairs I see the girls running down them (as best you can when you have just been jarred from sleep and you are freaking out thinking your house is on fire!), one of them is shouting ‘What about Brody, WHAT about Brody?!?  Where is he??’  (That was probably Kylie!) They were also mumbling something about Ms Maja (our neighbor), we are supposed to meet on her front porch if we ever have a fire.  (So at least they remembered what to do and where to go!)  So I tried to calm them down a bit and told them that our house isn’t on fire, but I can’t make the smoke detectors go off so I need to figure out what’s wrong.   Brody is stumbling down the stairs at this point and he wants that noise to stop!  Trust me, I do too!  

I still smell nothing, and I have NO CLUE why they are going off.  I have all the ceiling fans on, and I am standing on a barstool fanning the detector closest to the basement door… remember I am still covered in conditioner and soap and am only wearing a towel while perched on the barstools fanning the smoke detector, oh yeah it is right by our back door that has a huge window in it too!  I am also a little concerned that the whole neighborhood  can hear it and is going to come make sure everything is alright and is going to catch me dripping wet in a towel covered in conditioner and soap!  

I went to the basement and flipped the breaker on the detectors, but they still didn’t stop!  Dang battery back ups!!!  I find myself back on the stool trying to get the cover off so I can take the batteries out, but I can’t get it off and I am still worried about my towel!  So I throw my pj’s back on (still soapy and conditionery) and try again now that I have 2 hands!  I am pretty sure my ears are bleeding at this point and I am really annoyed that it won’t SHUT UP!!  I still couldn’t get the cover off so I flung the front door and garage doors open and switched the (real) furnace to ‘fan on’ and after a little bit the blasted thing FINALLY stopped!!  It’s about 6:30 at this point, and the kids are still a little freaked out, and I am running on pure adrenaline!  I settled the kids on the couch and put on a show and I finally finish my shower! 

I think my ears are still ringing, and I am completely EXHAUSTED!  That took a lot out of me!  I still have no idea what went wrong, and now I am nervous about tomorrow!  I can NOT go through this again!   Ugh, I need a nap!

So how was your morning?