Found the camera! . . . Lost the tooth . . . literally.

So we found the camera & here is how excited Sofia is: 

But . . . The night she lost her tooth she was so excited about finally losing her tooth & wanting to show it to Daddy the next morning that she took it out of the plastic bag and jumped around with it and it flew out of her hands & came to rest somewhere on this carpet:

I never realized that the carpet looks like a bunch of little teeth until I had to search (in vain) for a tooth on this carpet...

Sooooo...I'm not sure how to handle the tooth fairy.  How can she come if there's no tooth to exchange for money?  But how can the tooth fairy not come when a first tooth is lost?!  What do we put in place of the tooth?  I thought maybe a nice picture for the tooth fairy to find...Or a fake tooth made out of playdoh...We've got to figure something out because that tooth is L-O-S-T.

Guess What!?!?

Sofia lost her first tooth!  It was on the bottom!  And I can't find my camera!  Anywhere!  ACK!!!

She's very excited so I drew a picture of her, but it won't scan in!  The computer can't talk to the printer/scanner for some reason!  So...you'll just have to settle with the knowledge that the first tooth has been lost by our little girls!  Ava got her 6 year molars first, but Sofia lost a tooth first!

It's an exciting night here in our household.  I'm trying to get her to delay putting her tooth under her pillow for the tooth fairy b/c I really want to take a picture of it before the tooth fairy takes it!  I hope I find my camera before her permanent tooth grows in...She's got a cute smile :o)

Interlude

I know, I know...I said I'd continue with summer BUT . . . I haven't set aside enough time to get a summertime post together SO . . . Here is a picture of my girls with their favorite blankets in the whole wide world!  They started first grade with their new transformer & batman backpacks & lunch bags.  They love this stuff.  And I love them. 

And here's our new pet.  We keep him outside.  On the deck.  We actually never invited him to come live with us.  He invited himself.  And built his own house.  We avoid him at all costs.  The dude is SCARY.  He can stay with us as long as he likes.  I'm not kicking him out.  He might bite me.  Or wrap me up and eat me over a few days. The dude is BIG.

Summertime! (part 1)

So I'm having issues with blogger & posting pictures. It's not showing my pictures when I create a new post so I have no idea what the post will look like. So, here's one short post & I will try to figure out what's going on & create another post soon. (I know, promises, promises...)

Our summer was full of swimming & fun. We did a lot this summer, but I don't have a whole lot of photographic evidence because when I wasn't forgetting my camera at home, I was forgetting to get it out of the bag to take pictures! I did take some pictures with my phone, but there are 2 issues with that. 1) I'm not sure how good the quality will be when I upload them, and 2) I have no idea how to upload them.

So, until then, here are some pictures of our summer.
Tree climbing, fudgesicles and the beach...What can be better than all that?
Oh yeah, a pose with the pine man in there, too!






More pool, beach, local food fest and wave pictures to come...Once I figure out how to fix this picture upload issue...

Parades

Nothing special this post - just some parade pictures!
But first here are Ava & Sofia on a climbing wall! They made it all the way up several times!!






Above was 4th of July, below is Gaspee . . .

P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

When I first heard that Michael Jackson had died suddenly, I was shocked like everyone else. He was so young. I remembered one of my favorite pictures of me when I was young & so I wanted to post a blog about how much I loved him when I was 10 and share the picture with you.

I had begged my cousin to let me take a picture with her album cover photo. I only had the cassette, and the album had such a huge, beautiful picture of him that I just HAD to be in a photo with him.

(Note the Cabbage Patch Doll behind me? Beggars couldn't be choosers back in the 80's Cabbage Patch craze so the only place I could get one was through a mail-order catalog that sent you whatever the packing clerk picked off the shelf. I prayed every night for a girl with brown hair. Sadly, my brown-haired girl did not come to me in the way that I imagined. I was sent a boy named "Brian Ross" with a small tuft of poo-colored hair. So, I did what anyone else would do in that situation, right? I made a wig for him with my grandma's brown yarn (I braided it) & sent away for a new adoption certificate in the name of "Katie Ross" (I thought Ross was his last name). This picture is pre-yarn wig...but I digress...).

I mean, Michael Jackson was to me then what the Jonas Brothers are to young girls today. Seriously. I had posters of him all over my room & I even did my 5th grade report on him and his family. I was a serious fan.

But the media has just been inundating us with images of him, history of him & to be honest, the images of him post-Thriller just scare me. The more plastic surgery he had, the less of a fan I became. For pre-teen girls, it's not about the music, it's about the look. (No offense, Jonas Brothers...).

So I decided not to blog about my adoration of Michael 25 (!) years ago.

But then, fate stepped in (as it always does).

The girls chose an old book of mine from the attic to read for bedtime tonight . . . And this is what I found inside the front cover:

Holy crap. I was not just a fan. I think I was out of my ever-loving mind.

So of course, I had to humiliate myself and share this with everyone.

Is this what my girls are going to do in 4 years?! Who will they love in that pre-teen girl way? I hope they don't embarrass themselves the way I did!

Rest in peace, Michael Jackson.

We love rainbows

We've had rain on 14 of the last 18 days and the news just showed rain for the next 5 days coming up. So I thought I'd post this picture to remind the girls and me that there have been rainbows in the past & more rainbows will come again!!

(And I reminded them that weathermen aren't always right & that just because it's cloudy doesn't mean we won't be able to ride bikes!!)