The Little Ones

I have to say, I am starting to enjoy my time home with just these two little monsters more and more. They are the best of friends and love to play together. Lila can entertain Griffin way longer that I can. For some reason everything she does is like 10 times more funny than when I do it. They love to sit together and cuddle, play doll house, and watch Dora.

Lila has a crazy face in this one, but I love the expression on Griff's face. He is such a happy little guy lately. I hope it lasts :) Now that these two are older, I am able to get more done around the house (which is pretty important to me) and get more sleep. Those two things are key to a happy Mom around here.
(It is also nice to only have 1 in diapers now -- I'll save that exciting story for another post)

Now I'm off to put these adorable rug rats down for a nap. As much as I love them, I'm looking forward to my 2 hours of peace!

The Tooth Fairy -- Part 46

And it continues....

I went to take the sheets off of Jackson's bed to wash them and under his pillow I find a note:

Dear Tooth Fairy,

Can you please bring me a CTR ring too?

Love,

Jackson


I have to admit it made me cry. What a sweet boy. We have made a huge deal about Sunny being the first one to get the Tooth Fairy so that she would have something to look forward to. I know Jax must have been jealous, but he never showed it. He was excited for his sister and so sweet about her having that experience first. The sweet letter was in his best handwriting and must have taken him a bit of work.

I think it is so sweet that he wrote it. He has not asked me for a CTR ring, or even mentioned that he was feeling jealous. He also didn't tell me that he had written the letter. I'm soooo glad I changed the sheets today and found it.

Ryan is going to pick up another ring today on the way home from work. I think I'm going to write him a letter from the Tooth Fairy that says that she usually only comes when a kid looses a tooth, but that since he has been such a great big brother and helped his sister so much when she was hurting that just this once she came and brought him a ring too.

I love my sweet kids so much. They are priceless.

The Tooth Fairy Saga Continues

Sunny was so in love with her CTR ring and her letter from the Tooth Fairy (here after known as TF). She showed them to everyone. Her friend from down the street came over and I had to stifle a laugh as Sunny showed the letter to her. M's eyes got so big, they were both so cute and caught up in the magic of it all. Then the unthinkable happened (well, only unthinkable if you don't think things get ripped up in this house...ha ha ha). Lila ripped the letter from TF. Sunny stood frozen for about 30 seconds, and then dissolved into a pile of tears on the floor.

After I got her to calm down I told her we had two options. One was to tape the letter back together, and the other was for her to write the TF a letter and put it under her pillow, and that just maybe the TF would leave her another note. Sunny picked option two and set to work. I was expecting a picture and a few I love yous for the TF. When I saw what Sunny had done I almost died laughing. (Hopefully I can scan it one day for your viewing pleasure, but it is pretty big, so I don't know if I can. So, just picture it in your head for now). It was on the back of one of those extra big sized scrap book papers. She had scrawled in brown crayon. "My baby ripped my card TF. I love you." (Okay, so it doesn't sound that funny when I write it, but if you saw it you would know how hilarious it was.)

So, to the bed it went with her last night (after Project Runway of course) and during the night the TF replaced it with a new (much improved) letter and some stickers. She woke up beyond thrilled, and determined to keep the new one away from Lila.

Hopefully this is the end of the TF for awhile at our house.

Family Home Evening -- Week 5

This week I stole a lesson that we did in Activity Days last week. At AD's the girls made these mobiles that represent the Faith in God program. I showed our kids the one I had and we talked about each of the things listed. I was amazed at how much they already knew. They have been listening at church for sure. It was also a nice opportunity to talk about some of the things they didn't understand. The topics were:

Parents
Scriptures
Service
Testimony
Tithing
13 Articles of Faith
Sacrament
Prayer
Talents

After the lesson I had the kids pick one of the topics and color a picture about it. They both chose "Scriptures" and did some good work.

We had Popsicles for our treat since Sunny was in the middle of her whole tooth ordeal.

Random

Such is the life of Griffin.

Sometimes I feel like I blog about the other kids more than I do Jackson. That is probably true, only because he doesn't like to take pictures anymore. He is "too cool" for that now that 1st grade is halfway over with, but the other day he made this snow pile thing that he was really proud of. So, here it is in all its snow pile glory.

Her New Smile

The whole thing went great. She had about a million shots in her tiny mouth b/c the dentist couldn't find a place that wasn't infected to put the numbing medicine into, but she was tough. I was so proud of her! Here she is displaying her tooth and a letter she made for the Tooth Fairy.

The dreaded tooth. If you look closely you can see the infected part. Yuck. This is one baby tooth I will NOT be keeping.

She was trying to smile, but her lips were still numb.

The new and improved Sunny smile. I have to say, she has such an adorable little lisp now. A few hours after we were home she came up to me and said, "Mom, I have the same voice, only it's a little different when I say my "s" sound." Yes, it is a little different and very adorable.

Sunny's Tooth

I've written about it on Facebook, but I figured I should blog about it too. So, you all remember the story about Sunny and her poor front tooth. She has already had antibiotics to kill the infection and was doing great. She was scheduled to have the tooth pulled on the 27th. Things were good...until Saturday. She woke up and her upper lip was a bit swollen and she started complaining about her tooth hurting again. I called the dentist's cell phone and he immediately called in a prescription for a stronger antibiotic.

I thought all was well and it would get better fast. WRONG! Sunday morning she woke up and her whole lip was swollen. It was HUGE. The pictures don't do it justice. There was also a big mass under her lip, and I noticed that it was pushing her tooth down. The poor girl was in so much pain. I was alternating tylenol and motrin and it was not helping her at all. Finally at 8:30 I called the dentist again and he called in a prescription for loratab. He said that the antibiotic was very strong and would get the infection, but that it was slow to start (great, thanks for telling me that earlier). He said the "mass" might pop and release some blood and puss and that if that happened it would help relieve the pain. If it didn't happen he would meet us at his office on Monday afternoon and drain the abscess. Then we would go ahead and get it pulled on Wednesday.

So, off Ryan went down to Provo to get the medicine and Sunny and I started watching a movie to get her mind off of the pain. Pretty soon she said she tasted something funny in her mouth and sure enough, it had popped. It was gross! After that we gave her the meds and she was finally able to sleep. This morning the swelling has gone down a lot, so I think she will make it to Wednesday, but she had to miss school today, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Before this happened her two front teeth were perfectly straight and even. Obviously not anymore.

The dead tooth is just barely hanging on. These pictures are gross, but they really pale in comparison to the real thing. All I can say is that Sunny Bunny is one tough cookie.