The story of why the tooth fairy paid 10 bucks...........

 

 

After finishing reading to the boys one night Dusty was bent over tucking Hunter in when Ben jumped on his back. When Dusty stood up however, Ben slid down his back catching his front tooth on the back of his belt and popped out his tooth. 

It was a tiny bit loose but no where near ready to come out and you could tell by how much of the root was still connected to the tooth.  He cried pretty hard for a while and fell asleep with ice on his tooth.  We'll see if he learned his lesson. 

How Emma turned from a girl to a boy in a couple days

First, while I was gone at basketball one night and and her Dad thought she was sleeping, 

she cut both sides of her hair right in the front.

It was no small amount either. 

 

I tried for a couple of days to see if I could live with it and if would be covered by her other hair....

but in the end I had to get it cut short again. 

 

To most people this would not be a big deal but I have been trying to grow out her hair since she was in the womb. 

Before she was born I had definite ideas of how I  wanted her hair  to look.  From day one she has had her natural side part and I knew there would be no bangs in her future along with no piggies sticking out on top of her head.  I had finally gotten it long enough which took 3 years because she has cut it 3 other times starting at 18 months. There is something wrong with that!  

Soo now I have a little girl that looks like a boy. 

 

I have one of those...

 

The kid that as you are walking through the grocery store points out how everyone is a grandma and how

they all have babies in their tummy's. 

 As we are checking out in costco she has to loudly point out how big the man in front of us is and repeatedly saying to her brother  

" Hunter you see that guy he is big, yeah he is really big".  

The poor guy unfortunately heard and I tried to make eye contact with him as I distracted her with promises of pizza. 

Then as we're eating pizza she notices the lady sitting  a couple tables down and of course has to comment how " her skin is very black and mommy why did she paint her face black"?  

I'm pretty sure the lady heard this one too........

 

Ben's Favorites

 

Color ~  dark blue, light blue, actually I like shiny sparkly blue

T.V. show ~ dirtiest jobs  ( we've had no cable so his options are limited)

Sport ~ Is hula hooping a sport?? Or jump roping?? then those or I like wiffle ball or kickball

Animal ~ Chihuahua puppies

Holiday ~ Christmas

Song ~ Whenever I hear the song of a bird and you are my sunshine

Sports Team ~ I don't like the Suns or sports

Car ~ my Dad's truck

Restaurant ~ Cold Stone

Food ~ Ham and cheese on a roll

Dessert ~ Cold stone

Candy ~ Bubble gum ice cream

Temple ~ the one with build a bear inside of it???

Me~uummm Ben that is a mall not a temple????

Ben~ oh yeah then the one by Bahama bucks

Thing to do ~ sucking on my arm making it turn red

?????

Movie ~ Hotel for Dogs and Ninja Turtles

Place to go ~ Grandmas house

Book ~ The Napping House

 

Labor day weekend found us

still recovering from my root canal

enjoying a nice rainstorm while the hubs was out of town

going swimming with cousins

having birthday party at Oregano's

going to church with no hubs

playing the piano in R.S.   (i pretty much hate it)

Sunday night Family Get together where we somehow were able to leave all our kids for a cousins sleepover

morning spent doing yard work without any kids

Going on a lunch date

Swimming and BBQ with friends

All ended with a 6 year old with a raging fever and the stomach flu!

***all the parents of the kids he had a sleepover with, you can send your thanks directly to my email........

 

 

 

Emma and her boyfriend

 

 

 

 

                                                          

So the kids all started school a couple weeks ago and heres the proof. The proof is needed because they have both already missed two days of school and Ben came pretty close to missing again this morning. He can't seem to get rid of the croupy cough. Emmas school was at our lucky house this week and it once again reminded me how I am not cut out to teach preschool. 

  Sadly they are not wearing uniforms to school this year......

China Brother (not china glitter) weekend

 

 

 

 

It was two years since we had last seen my brother Andrew and his wife Kimi. They teach English in China and don't make it home that often although I'm sure after all the fun they had this trip they will not wait two years again.  We were able to spend a lot of time together and this last weekend before he left we played as much as we could. 

The highlights from the last weekend~

Date night to Sushi Brokers with 3 of my brothers followed by

seeing the movie 500 days of Summer. 

I loved the movie. Dusty loved the movie. I love date nights. 

Lots of swimming and lots of Hunter crying over something that Gabe did to him. 

Going on a walk through the prettiest old neighborhood and taking pics of my girl. 

Trying to get a family pic. All the boys ages 27 and up were THE WORST for taking pics. 

My husband in particular is the biggest baby about getting family pics taken, but my brothers were

 almost as bad as him. The kids aside from one were easier to deal with than the adults. 

All in all it was a fun month having Andrew and Kimi here and I know 

Emma asks me everyday if she can go to China to see Andrew and Kimi. 

Although she asks me everyday to go to Grandma's house and to Hadyn's house also............