A New Chapter...

Well it officially happened tonight and if you know Owen, it was NOT without extreme drama. He lost his first tooth.

It's been loose for about 3 weeks now, and I have been wanting it to fall out all by itself, but tonight it was so loose I told him we should just pull it. So for an hour and a half after dinner he screamed that he was scared and didn't want us to pull it. He tried pulling it - this all after many tears and red swollen eyes. I wanted it to just be done so I tried bribing him with being able to play the Wii tonight which is normally a Friday night event. So that made the situation, er...better or worse. It made him want to have his tooth pulled more but it also made him more scared. Finally I told him I was going to pick up dinner dishes and then he started screaming because he knew it was his last chance to play the Wii tonight. So he said that he needed to numb it, so I got him an ice pack. He held it there for a few minutes and when I said it was time to pull it, he started freaking out again, so I said enough. I grabbed him threw him backwards on my knee and grabbed the tooth. It didn't give right away and it started bleeding before I got it out, which freaked him out (and me a little, being my first tooth to pull and all), so I yelled for Tony to come help me, but by the time he got there the tooth had popped out. It bled pretty good for about a minute. He washed out his mouth and was fine the rest of the night. He was all smiles after the fact! (Just like I knew he would be, which is why I didn't feel bad about being a bit forceful).

So tonight the Tooth Fairy will visit our house for the first of many trips! He was so cute and excited to put his little tooth in an envelope under his pillow. He was asking a million questions, like what she looked like and how she would take the tooth, etc. I told him that I didn't know for sure, because I only know how she took my teeth as a kid. At first he put the envelope as far under his pillow as possible and I got a little worried about that, but then he said that maybe he should slide it out some to help her out. Phew, that was nice of him! ha ha.

I was way  more emotional about the whole situation than I thought I'd be. I thought I'd be a little sentimental, but I bawled like a baby and tear up even when I think about it now. He's officially not a baby anymore. He's growing up and will someday leave the nest and that elates me and breaks my heart all at the same time. And Owen being the sentimental and dramatic kid he is, god love him, he started crying because I was crying and said he didn't want to ever leave me. What a nice boy. :) I feel so emotional about the whole event. It felt almost as happy as the day he was born to be honest. It was this swell of love and happiness for him and thankfulness that he is in my life but a bit of sadness as well to know that I will love something so much and it will someday leave the nest as all babies do! It was probably as emotional, if not more so, than his first day of Kindergarten.

As Owen is losing teeth, which he will be losing another one in the next couple of weeks already, Tess is growing them like wild fire. She is 10 1/2 months old and has grown 6 new teeth since she turned 10 months old. She will be eating steak before we know it! Another odd teeth tidbit is Raymond this weekend said he had something in his mouth hurting him. I looked and lo and behold, he is getting his 6 year old molars (which Owen just got late summer!!!!) Raymond is catching up on Owen in the teething department. Which means Raymond will probably lose a tooth by the end of this year or this summer. Crazy!

Well here are a few pictures of my adorable kiddos. Enjoy! (actually I just tried to upload my photos and it's being weird and saying 'server rejected' whatever that means!) So I'll post them later.

Just a Few Thoughts

Tess just turned 10 months on Friday the 12th. I can't believe she is so old already! I'm so excited for Christmas for her this year because she has literally NO girl toys thus far, so at Christmas and then two weeks later, her birthday, I am excited for her to get some girly things!

My entire house is fighting colds, allergies, and pink eye. Even my daycare kids have been in and out the last two weeks with fevers, tummy aches, goopy eyes, headaches, etc. My kids have been afflicted by the same illnesses.

I have been working part-time at Toys R Us for their seasonal rush and to my kids I am a celebrity because of it. I think it's funny that they drool over the thought of working with toys all day. I even went so far as to autograph a piece of paper for Raymond! ha ha. Raymond gets to cash in his birthday gift from Grandma Holly tomorrow night because she always takes them to Toys R Us to pick out a toy for their birthday. I have to work, so I am excited to see him at work!

Owen has two loose teeth and I keep vigorously wiggling them because one of them should be falling out any day now, and I am as excited about them falling out as I was when he got his first teeth! :) While Owen's loosing teeth, Tess is growing teeth like a crazy person. She has her bottom front four, her top front two for sure, but now is getting her other top front two to make the top four, and her top molars are coming through. That will give her a grand total of 10 teeth! That means she only will have 6 left. Crazy. Poor baby has goopy goopy eyes right now on top of the teething pain.

Raymond had his first playdate with a non-daycare kid today. I was so excited for him. His friend Will from preschool called last night to invite him over to his house after preschool today for lunch and some play time. He was very excited. He talks about Will all the time, and from what I hear Will talks about Raymond all the time. That makes me so happy, the kind of happy where you get teary eyed to know that Raymond has his first real friend. It gives me hope of him making friends next year at Kindergarten because he is shy kid when he's away from home, so I was a little concerned. His two years of previous preschool didn't result with any friends because he wouldn't talk to anyone. :( But this year when I get to his school early and they happen to be outside I hear all different kids yelling his name to come play with them. awwww.

Judd is not doing much at the moment. He's been potty trained since mid Sept, but is back in pull-ups because pooping in the potty suddenly is not consistent. Some days he tells me, other days he sneaks off to his bedroom upstairs and then comes down and tells me to change his pull-up. How aggravating! But the last couple of days has yielded no accidents, so maybe he's catching on. He used to poop in the potty, that's why it is so frustrating!

Anyways, that's a little snippet of what's going on with each kid. We will be spending Thanksgiving here in Omaha with Tony's mom. We were going to MO to visit my family, but with my new part time job at Toys R Us, I have to work black Friday (mandatory), and we can't afford to go out of town. Very sad about that.

Judd and Tess napping (they don't look like they are napping, do they?)

What every kid is doing these days, perusing the Toys R Us Big book Christmas catalog. (My house has 12 of them)

She looks like a toddler here!!!

Tess playing with a Strawberry Shortcake doll a daycare girl brought and shared with her. She really liked it.

She's so stinking cute!

My Tessie.

Do I even need to ask how cute she is??

Or him??

She says "Mom, I'm playing. Please stop taking pictures of my cute pig tails!"

Me as a dorky Toys R Us employee. :)

Kids playing in the snow we had last weekend in our neighbors front yard.

Well here are just a couple of cute pictures of a couple of my kids! Happy Thanksgiving all!