My Little Shark

Little A lost her very first tooth after a very dramatic 30 minutes. She refuses to wiggle her teeth for fear of the sight of blood. I asked her if I could floss between her two loose teeth, which gave me more power to free the tooth. It was all good and excitement until a drop of blood appeared in the sink. One would have thought an extremity was severed as the tooth literally hung there. She was starting to look like a little shark as her front bottom two permanent teeth were almost all the way in behind the loose teeth.

As a reward for living through the trauma, we went to Wendy's for chocolate frosties. Unfortunately, Dad had class all day, so he missed the tooth pulling drama - his favorite thing! Ha ha ha. Our goal for the remainder of the week is to free that other tooth!!

Congratulations, Ava, on your first dental loss!

Sledding & 4-Day Weekend

This afternoon Ava had a very fun friend birthday party to attend. They did all kinds of arts and crafts including tie-dying shirts and canvas painting. She brought home lots of fun stuff and pinata candy. Exactly her kind of party!

On the way home, we stopped at Kohl's and rummaged through clearance racks to find snow boots for E (her first pair ever!) and snow pants for A. After getting home, we dressed in our snow gear and walked down to the park which has a couple of great sledding hills for kids. The weather was nice enough near 40 degrees with bright sun to melt a bunch of snow off the residential streets. We even hit up the playground on the way home. Judging by E's reaction to walking through the snow, it was the first time for her!

The weather over the past couple of days had originally predicted 12-18" of snow, but we ended up with a mere 5" and two snow days! Craziness!

Wee! Our Dad is so much fun!!

E's turn!

These boots make snow play fun even if I refuse to wear gloves

Didn't take long to get the hang of this!