Pumpkins' Progress

At some point in all the birthday and Halloween craziness, time must be found to carve pumpkins. It took shifts and Dada taking a week off of work to fit everything in (only half kidding), but we made it!

Damon's, missing teeth just like him:

Liam's scary one:

Carrie's character facing fiery flames:

Mine, to go between the boys':

Visiting friend Josh was shanghaied into carving one as well. He did a fair share of protesting, but gave in...

With a fun end result!

June Jack-o-lantern

I swear, once you have kids the teething never stops. Carrie turned 14 and she's still growing molars, and now we have this crazy Thing3 on the other end losing all his teeth. He has three grown up teeth on the bottom and lost his first top tooth, but there are probably four additional wiggly ones in there. Just when you think the little bug can't get any cuter: 

Liam's first missing tooth

Liam pulled his own first loose tooth out after a lot of persuasion. It wiggled front to back, side to side, and you could see the root clear down into his gum. FINALLY, that bugger is out and was deposited safely under his pillow.

The next morning, he awoke to a note from the Count from Sesame Street! It read:

THANK YOU FOR THE ONE SHINY TOOTH, HA HA HA!

HERE ARE TWO SHINY QUARTERS!

SIGNED, THE COUNT 1 2 3

Liam was flabbergasted. "IIIIIIIIIIIII didn't know the Count took teeth! Do you think he'll show up on Elmo with my tooth?"

Dear me, what have we done?

No cavities

We did our first 2011 trip to the dentist yesterday while PaPa was here to help corral kids and babies, etc. Damon was an angel, alternately singing and sleeping in his car seat while Thing One, Thing Two and I got our teeth cleaned and checked.

Liam went first and apparently told Cindy, our dental hygenist: Now watch it. Don't get all scrape-y by my gummies. She hid her mirth very well, (she has 4 kids of her own, 3 being triplets) and made sure she told me about it. He claims it was: Now be careful. Don't get all scrape-y by my gummies, but she insisted it was "you watch it" twice. Hehe!

Nobody had any cavities, again. Yippie! The dentist recommended we have some of Carrie's bottom baby teeth pulled to make room for the big ones coming in. He hopes that as her jaw grows that it would give her new teeth extra room. We're thinking braces are going to be inevitable anyway, soooooo... we'll see. She just about left town when he suggested pulling teeth. She has her permanent bottom front four and the two top front ones, with a loose and wiggly one beside them. Cindy also said her sealant on her back molars looks wonderful.

We go back in August and will all need X-rays at that point. Oh goody. I can't wait.

Just another manic Monday...

Since the camera chip reader and the laptop are still acting like a bunch of junior high girls (read: are not talking to each other), I thought all y'all might appreciate what a typical Monday morning looks like here. And my apologies if you now have Cyndi Lauper in your head. 0=D

From 6:30 AM- 10:00 AM

Get dressed
Feed baby
Change and dress baby
Feed kids
Eat breakfast
Make coffee
Let dog out
Have kids gather laundry
Send Care Bear to clean up her room
Start laundry
Vote online for Pepsi contest*
Confiscate toys from home which are trying to migrate to school
Reheat coffee
Check kids' "brushed" teeth
Walk to bus stop
Chat with other moms
Return home from bus stop
Send Liam to clean up beads from pulverized bracelet in upstairs hall
Let dog in
Feed dog
Gather mail to be mailed
Rekennel dog
Drive to post office to drop off mail
Drive Liam to preschool
Drive home
Let dog back out, or in, depending
Feed baby
Change diaper and clothes
Head back out to do errands

From 11:20 AM- 1:30 PM

Drive to preschool
Pick up Liam
Drive home
Supervise washing of hands
Make lunch
Clean up from lunch
Brush teeth
Get Liam situated for break
Feed baby


Just another manic Monday! Wish it were a Sunday...

* To participate in helping Care Bear's school win $50K for technology at school, go to www.refresheverything.com/perrysburg and create an account by clicking "join refresh everything" in the lower left hand corner. Choose a password and then vote daily. Click "vote for this idea" which is "student led computer classes for senior citizens in our community." I suppose there are more details on the site. So far we've voted once for the month of October... =/

Droolybug

If this post is a bit disjointed, I apologize. There's a football game streaming on my computer and my brain is trying to compete with the announcers and the marching band and the refs and... you get the idea.

Our Doodlebug has become a Droolybug. I don't feel any teeth in there yet, and he's almost 4 months old, but he is going through an amazing amount of bibs. He's found his thumb, and while he still likes his binkie, his thumb is sneaking in more often than not. We all think it's pretty precious. Especially when he's sleeping.

For no good reason, my camera chip reader has become "unrecognizable" by my laptop, which means that I don't know how to upload photos right now without it. I'm not sure how long it will take or what it will take to get that remedied, but that's why pictures (and posts) have been lacking. Sorry. We're working on it. =/

Care Bear still has one stubborn front tooth poking straight out, with another big kid tooth right behind it. She still looks rather shark-like as she has two rows of teeth in places, but it's a pretty cute little smile!

She's really enjoying second grade with their centers, specials, writers' workshops, and computer games. Her class will be painting the oceans and continents on pumpkins this Wednesday, so that ought to be pretty fun!

Liam is having a great time at preschool and has made two especially good friends. When you hear him chattering about Sammy and Cordelia, you'll know they are his boy friend and his girl friend from class. His new teacher seems to be holding the crew together well and he still hops out of bed gleefully when I tell him it's a school day.

We're spending National Frugal Fun Day today by taking naps. We had chocolate chip homemade waffles for breakfast, Dada sealed his homemade tomato sauce cans in their hot water bath, and now we're pondering what to make for dinner... hope everyone is having a good time celebrating Frugal Fun Day!

Gotta go. Tiny Tyrant is M.A.D. and binkie just isn't cutting it. I really hope it's not teeth! =/