Happy Halloween!

Here's the costume I made for Bubs this year. He's so excited! I showed him how to lift the trunk so he can see where he's going. We are crossing our fingers that the rain waits until tomorrow! K had a parade at her school this morning & luckily we all stayed dry outside. Bubs' parade is later today & we are all going to meet at his preschool for that. Its quite a fun filled day! HOPE EVERYONE HAS A SAFE & HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Thursday!

The way things went this morning makes me so happy! It was a smooth morning. I did have to wake the kids up - but this time I gave them enough time, so they didn't have to jump out the bed & hurry out the door. They got dressed easily (because clothes were picked out last night!). They had time to eat. I remembered vitamins, jackets, hats, everything! Everyone was happy & there were lots of hugs & smiles. I wish every day could go as well as this one. AND I made it to work 1/2 an hour early as planned. Way to Freak Show Family!

Bubs now really likes to sit next to K at the dinner table to do homework with her. I write down letters or numbers down the side of a page & he copies them right next to mine. He does a good job. I think he has my eye for drawing what I see. He can copy well. So well, that last night I gave him numbers to copy. Passed the paper back to him & he got right to work. By the time he said, "I'm finished mom." I looked at him finishing up & the entire page was upside down. He did the whole column of numbers like that! I'll have to pay more attention next time!

Bubs starts Kindergarten next year. I hope he's ready - he's got a few months to get prepared. K sees how much we want Bubs to learn his letters & numbers that she's even started to jump in and help. Wednesday night I came home to find them playing school together. She had a little chalk board & was writing out letters & shapes for him to recognize. Flashback to me & my brother! I remember those days - is that how he got so smart??!!

2nd tooth gone

The tooth finally came out Tuesday afternoon at Religious ed! I was a little bummed, because I never captured a picture of her backward twisting tooth. It made you cringe. She is now missing both her middle front bottom teeth. Too cute!

Tooth fairy forgot our house

Of course, so much was going on, the Tooth Fairy forgot to stop by our house. K was really disappointed & sad. Here's what she left the next day... With 2 Gold $1 coins & one 5o cent piece.

Score: 1-0 Little Brother

I thought we were having the best morning, everyone was up & ready to go this morning & it was 7am. One last trip through the house to grab dirty clothes from the bedrooms and move them to the washing machine. The 2 kids were ready and waiting by the front door at the couch in front of the window. I passed them with an armful of clothes & K started screaming - "Bubs punched me!" I saw that her mouth was bleeding & ran the clothes outside, grabbed a papertowel & ran back to her. She had already lost 1 tooth & the one next to it has been loose. Strangely enough, the tooth was now twisted completely around. It was ready to come out, but the pain to her was unbearable. I tried to pull it, but she barely let me touch it. I couldn't even get it to turn back around so it sat normally in her mouth. It was sticking straight forward and I wasn't sure what to do with her. She told me to take her to the dentist but I told her there's nothing he can do but pull it out. (Luckily we do have an appointment for the kids this Thursday!) That scared her & so she screamed & cried more. I couldn't seem to calm her down. How was she supposed to sit through school like this? The tooth was almost ready to come out - Bubs just seemed to help it along a little sooner than expected.

I managed to find out that Bubs was playing with something on the couch & K was bothering his stuff. So he felt the need to make her stop & hit her in the face. Lovely. He looked upset that he caused her to bleed & said sorry to her "after I asked him to." We'll have to have a talk tonight! Unfortunately, I focused on K all morning.

I gave her water & that soothed her mouth. I also gave her a small snack bag, so if she lost the tooth at school, she had something to put it in. We took Bubs to school first & to give her times to calm down. By the time we got to her school she was better but wouldn't eat anything. I convince her to eat her raisins. Throw them in the back of her mouth to use her back teeth to eat. I also let the teachers know why she may seem upset. Its 3pm now & I haven't heard from school. I guess she's OK now. I wonder if she'll have a tooth for the tooth fairy tonight or not... Poor thing.

In a routine...

I have Bubs well trained in the morning to get ready all by himself. We lay out all the clothes the night before. When he gets up, he gets dressed even before leaving his room. He's the easiest to get going in the morning. (K is the one that i have to ask over & over to just get up & out of bed!)

Bubs is so easy & I have him so well trained that he was dressed & in my room at 4:30 this morning. I think he came up to me in my bed & asked me to help him put on his shoes. I can't remember 100% because I was still asleep! I told him to put down the shoes & get in bed with me. It wasn't time to wake up yet. I couldn't help but laugh though. He had no idea what time it was. Its dark most of the morning that we get ready. And he was so darn proud of himself!

I did manage to have him go back to sleep on Daddy's side although he had to sleep so close to me that he kept me awake with his nudges & kicks. When my alarm went off at 5:30 I reached over & turned it off. He was sleeping - and he managed to sleep until 6:20! But by then all he had to do was get up, put on his shoes & go get breakfast. He was ready to go!

Happy Helpers

I had the best helpers last night. Both kids were so excited to help me put clean sheets on the bed & fold laundry. Once we finished folding a basket of laundry & putting all the clothes away, K asked me if there was more laundry. I said (with my sarcasm), of course, laundry never ends, there will always be more! But she wanted to do more right then and there. She got upset with me because I told her there wasn't any more ready. Darn, I hate to have disappointed her. I'll have to get more washed tonight - right away!

Halloween

Bubs loves Halloween and all the "scary" decorations. He rides in the backseat of our car, going down the street and points out all the "dead men" he sees (also known as skeletons). He gets so excited when he sees a big blown up Pumkin or a fake grave yard. But, if ever we actually get close the decorations - he freaks out. We get costume magazines almost daily now & he loves to look at anything that has decorations in it. He "talks" about going to the scary store & begs us to go. One day I took him & K to the Halloween Spirit store near our house. The 3 of us walked in the store and I almost had to hold him back from running back out the front door into the street. I tried to calm him by getting down to his level. Told him that I could carry him through the store and that everything was just pretend. He would not have any part of it. He froze up & started shaking. I didn't want him to have nightmares, so I convince K that Daddy would bring her back. He went home & told daddy that he got scared, but a few days later he convinced daddy to take him & K back to the store. He was ready this time. So Daddy and his friend Tom picked up the kids from school Friday and swung by the Spirit store on the way home. No chance. Tom had to stay in the car with Bubs, while Daddy took K in to look around. They captured a few cell phone pics of themselves trying on scary masks. K was brave (she said she was just a little scared). Now what do you know, Bubs says he's ready this time. He wants to go back. I think he's just all talk! We'll wait awhile now. I wonder how he'll be trick or treating???

Favorites

I got a sheet of paper sent home from Bub's preschool with some of his favorite items on it. Favorite color: and next to it he colored a blue spot. The part that made me smile was - Favorite food: next to it a bunch of yellowish green spots. I had to ask him what it was. I was thinking pasta. No, he said it was his favorite food - "PEAS." I guess I'd better serve more of those green balls! (thats what we used to call them for K)

And then there is K's writing journal. She gets most of her homework done at afterschool care (hurray for them!). Its so nice, not to worry about it with K after we get home together at 5. I review it with her. This is the first time she was sent home with her journal. I really enjoyed reading some of her thoughts. In the front of the journal was a list of ideas of things to write about. So far there are 3 entries. First one was about her favorite movie - anything with princesses. 2nd one was about her favorite animal - would have never guessed - horses. And the 3rd one was her favorite food - PASTA (with no sauce of course!)

Teeth

I should have been excited for her. The dentist warned me, but I was still not prepared. It has always been hard to floss her baby teeth. They are very small & packed closely next to one another in her mouth.

Instead, I started seeing dollar signs & years of retainers, bionators, and braces. Just like me. My poor child. I wish I could have gone back & controlled my response.

Last night K was so excited. She must have just realized that there was something coming in that gap where she lost her first tooth. She happily showed me her new big tooth is coming in. Unfortunately I freaked out. I’m so sorry! Her tooth is trying to find its way into her little mouth of tiny teeth. Now it means the tooth is coming in practically perpendicular to her bite! My response caused her to cry, & then I was practically in tears. And she told me she doesn’t want braces. I say it won’t be for awhile who knows what will happen when the other teeth start coming in. Luckily I calmed her down. Told her to look at my teeth (my parents can vouch for how bad they once were!). Dentists can work their magic but she has to wait for all her big teeth to come in. I had some really bad teeth & remember lots of trips to the Orthodontist. I guess I better win the lottery or find some way to save for not only retirement, college, but also orthodontics...