Maddie had a dentist appointment a few weeks ago. The dentist told the hygenist something in dental code about one of her teeth. I started getting nervous a cavity filling was in our near future. He called me over and showed me that her bottom front tooth was loose! I was so excited! I lost my baby teeth late, so I thought for sure she wouldn’t lose one for at least another year or so.
So we started wiggling the tooth on a regular basis. I even tried to pull it out once, but got cold feet and wouldn’t pull hard enough. She came out of the bathroom yesterday and informed us that her tongue had finally pushed the tooth all the way out!
We put the tooth in a little box, and put it under her pillow last night. The Tooth Fairy was nice enough to stop by and give Maddie One Dollar for her tooth.
I had to go to work but Trevor said that she loved her dollar bill so much that she decorated it with stickers and put her name on it. Then they went to the dollar store to spend her hard earned money. So, if you happen to buy something around town and your change comes back with a decorated dollar, you can thank the tooth fairy.
For anyone who has met my little tomboy Maddie, you know that she has really barely touched a doll her entire life. She could play the entire day away with sea animals, or dragons, or dinosaurs, or birds…ok pretty much anything of the animal variety. We do own a few Barbies, but only because said Barbie’s either came with a Dolphin or a Dog. The Dolphin and Dog get played with… Poor Barbie, not so much.
So imagine my suprise when she came downstairs to make a sign that said “keep out, babies sleeping”. We went up to put the sign on her door and I quietly observed all of the cabbage patch dolls snuggled up with animals and blankets in various spots around the room!
My 6 year old self did a little happy dance that the Cabbage Patch dolls I had saved from my youth, and lovingly bestowed on my daughter were finally getting played with!!
Granted, it has been several days now, and the poor babies are still sleeping soundly. Baby steps, right?
Also, please dont get me wrong, we love that she is so in love with animals and definitely encourage it. It’s just fun to see her enjoy stuff I loved as a child.
My poor sweet sensitive little girl. She is very much a tom boy (wonder where she gets it? ) She loves bugs and especially rollie-pollies. She had a rollie-pollie that she noticed had one white leg. She proceeded to name him “White Leg”. She decided to take White Leg for a ride on her catepillar toy that has a rotating top. The top of the catepillar spins around and she had White Leg on top. Poor White Leg fell into the catepillar and she brought the toy over to me, upset that White Leg was stuck inside. I said that White Leg might be squished, and she was very upset. So I had to take apart the toy and I got White Leg out. He was curled up in a ball, and she thought he might be dead. I told her to just put him down and we’ll see if unrolls from his ball. She put him down, and while we were waiting Michael came along with his Lightning McQueen car and ran him over. Maddie was very distraught about poor White Leg, and we had to have a funeral.
She is such a sweet little girl. We love her so much. She is extremely sensitive and loves all types of animals and bugs. We sure love her, and love how she can get so attached to something so very quickly. She also names all of her creations, which are many. She cuts paper into dragons, birds, dolphins, whales, and dinosaurs especially, and she names them ALL. I am constantly amazed at how she can even remember all of the names she gives her toy animals and her created animals. She sure is one smart and creative little girl.
Our little Michael is so very smart, and very silly! He knows every single letter of the alphabet, including some lower case ones! He really loves his ABC’s. He watches the They Might Be Giants Here Comes the ABC’s DVD all the time. If you ask him what Q-U says he will say “quah” and then you can ask him what starts with “Quah” and he will say “Queen” He enjoys playing with cars, and balls. He continues to amaze Trevor and I with how very smart he is. The other day Trevor was coughing and Michael came up to him and said “You OK, Daddy?” and he said yes he was, and Michael said “OK Good”.
He adores his sister Maddie, and yesterday he brought me a water bottle and pointed to it and said “Maddie’s?” and I said yes, so he goes over and calls to Maddie and gives it to her. He hates having his hands messy. When he’s done eating he’ll look at his hands and say “messy!!” After I clean them off he goes “KEEN!” He ADORES being outside, and loves his cousin Nathan the best out of everyone in the whole world.
Of course, he is a computer genius. Who wouldn’t be with parents like us? He loves playing on www.starfall.com he’s definitely going to be a reader (just like his cousin Nathan).
That’s our little man in a nutshell! Happy Birthday Michael! We love you SO much!
So, I left the door to Michael’s room slightly open when I put him down for bed this evening. When I came up to get Maddie in bed, I went to close his door since he was finally asleep and this is how I found him! Poor kid. Luckily I was able to fix him without waking him up. Silly boy!
So, what happens when you take 2 kids, who are the products of Trevor and I (read super duper white), who have spent a winter cooped up inside, since its cold outside, to the park for the afternoon? Sunburn…
At least they had a ton of fun, right? Maddie wanted to have a picnic, so we packed up some snacks and invite TJ and Erica to come with us and headed to the park.
They all had a lot of fun, I just forgot the sunscreen. Boooo Mommy!
We went to the eye doctor today. Amy was kind enough to watch Michael AND let me take one of their cars. Which was lucky, cause we were there for a while, and Michael would have not done well.
When we pulled into the parking lot she got a little nervous. I told her I’ll be with her the whole time. They took her into a testing room and checked out her color vision, which was perfect, and her 3D vision, which was also great. They also took some pictures of the inside of her eyes, which she thought was cool.
We finally saw the doctor and she was really great with Maddie. She took some measurements of Maddie’s eyes, and tested her vision a bit. The dr. Told me that she most likely had astigmatism, but she wanted to dilate her eyes to make sure she got the right measurements.
They put drops in her eyes to dilate them, and while we were waiting for them to dilate we picked out some glasses. She didn’t pick my favorites, but she likes them, so we picked those.
Dr. Came back and took the measurements again, and they were the same. She said that Maddie has a “significant” astigmatism in both eyes, and even with glasses right now we’ll probably only get her to about 20/30 vision. She also wants to see Maddie a few more times this year to see if we can get it to 20/20 with glasses on.
I’m bummed that I forgot to take a picture of her with the glasses she picked, so I guess you’ll just have to wait a week for us to get them. I did get this lovely shot of her dilated eyes! Amy couldn’t even look at her, it was freaking her out. So that’s the verdict. I’m hoping with better vision she may have a bit better behavior at school. We’ll see!
So, I’m feeling productive again. It’s amazing what a new phone can do for me. I’m so obsessed with making into the tool I need it to be, so I can actually get things done, and I think it’s working… granted it’s only been a couple days, but hey… what can I say.
I’m working a new job now. I do QA (Quality Assurance) for a software company. eFileCabinet. It’s been a pretty good gig so far, and I’ve been excited about it. The hours are super flexible, which I needed in order to work out with Trevor’s schedule, and they are also allowing me to work from home part of the time. Full time hours, I can work from home, and I love the job… so the only thing NOT perfect about this job is the commute, it’s in Provo. That is all changing THIS WEEK though as we move our office to Thanksgiving Point! It’s going to be so close, it will only take me about 5 minutes to get to work. Most days I’ll be able to get my 8 hours in, and be home by around 2, and be able to play the rest of the day!
We are also hoping to purchase a super cheap car in the very near future (cheap meaning under $1000) so that once Trevor goes to work I can go to Seven Peaks with the kids, Thanksgiving Point or Trafalga (since we have passes to all of the above!) So if you, or anyone you know is selling a car that runs for under a grand, we’ll take it!
My angel Michael is turning into the terrible 2′s. UGH. I gave him a sippy cup full of water, and he wanted juice. I refused to give him juice, and he proceeded to throw a fit. Finally I just stuck him in his crib until he calmed down. After he stopped crying I went in his room and he read me a book and was super happy the rest of the day. Of course until it was time to put him to bed. Then he wasn’t so happy anymore. Terrible 2′s… BRING IT!
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) She loves bugs and especially rollie-pollies. She had a rollie-pollie that she noticed had one white leg. She proceeded to name him “White Leg”. She decided to take White Leg for a ride on her catepillar toy that has a rotating top. The top of the catepillar spins around and she had White Leg on top. Poor White Leg fell into the catepillar and she brought the toy over to me, upset that White Leg was stuck inside. I said that White Leg might be squished, and she was very upset. So I had to take apart the toy and I got White Leg out. He was curled up in a ball, and she thought he might be dead. I told her to just put him down and we’ll see if unrolls from his ball. She put him down, and while we were waiting Michael came along with his Lightning McQueen car and ran him over. Maddie was very distraught about poor White Leg, and we had to have a funeral.
So, I’m feeling productive again. It’s amazing what a new phone can do for me. I’m so obsessed with making into the tool I need it to be, so I can actually get things done, and I think it’s working… granted it’s only been a couple days, but hey… what can I say. 