Busted

I could hear them in their room.
Most likely undoing everything I'd just tidied up.

Surprisingly, they were not making a mess.
Until Henry decided to chuck everything OFF the dresser.

I still wonder how he got up there.
Olivia claims he climbs up the laundry hamper, off the right.
I'm not convinced.
However, no drawers are open and with her tiny self there is NO WAY she can heft him up there.
An unsolved mystery for now...


Until they're BUSTED again.

Ready for Summer

Last week we had such lovely weather. Warm and sunny with temperatures in the 70's. Perfection. I think one day we even hit 80. I know!

This week started out pretty chilly. Our predicted snow (or rain) never came, but the temp certainly took a dive. Unphased by the change, look what these hooligans did yesterday. I thought about stopping them, but I didn't. Somethings they just need to learn on their own, right?

Yeah, it was 45 degrees - with a chilly, chilly wind.

I think we're ready for summer.

For the First Time

Bonus: I even hit the target a few times.

Speaking of Teeth

Miss Kaycee finally lost her first top tooth.

And guess who is visiting the orthodontist on a regular basis . . .
Palette expander scheduled for next month.
Let the REAL FUN begin.

Oh Henry!

This little guy fell and hit his mouth on our bamboo step. His hands were preoccupied with a sippy cup that slid over the step, leaving his mouth to take the blow. I scooped him up and waited for the blood to come. Surprisingly, it didn’t come as soon as I thought, nor with the amount I imagined in my head.

I laid him back on our bed when I saw a bit of blood in his mouth. I assumed it was his attacher-thing (he’s torn that before). I lifted his lip and to my horror, his tooth was gone! I ran back over to the step to see if it had been knocked out there, but I couldn’t find anything nor realized that he had hit the step so hard. I was right behind him and saw it all happen. I looked again and could see a bit of his tooth. The root?

I called Ryan, controlling tears and he called our pediatric dentist. She was out having just had surgery, and the other dentist was out of town. They gave us a referral to another pediatric dentist. I thought about calling our dentist but I knew he was with his family in Disneyland. (How dare all these dentist leave at the same time.)

I went ahead and made the call to California and our dentist said to make an appointment with that ped dentist. It wasn’t necessarily and emergency situation, but if they had to extract any part of the tooth, they’d want to do it before it abscessed. Barf. I asked about the possibility that it was shoved back up into his gums, but was told that that was pretty rare and again, I didn’t think he’d hit that hard. And, he hadn’t cut his mouth at all, either. Weird.

Here he is getting an x-ray (which we had to do twice since after the first one, they’d lost it by the time we got back to the exam chair).

Henry was a champ and let the dentist check everything out in his mouth. Again, I asked if the tooth had gone back up. ‘Unlikely’ was the response.

Well as it turned out, Henry does still have his tooth. He hit it just right to knock it back up- and without hitting any other teeth. I’m pretty relieved he still has it and all we can do now is wait for it to come back down. We won’t know if it did any damage to adult teeth until they come in. So, we have a good 7-8 years to see. I’m good with that.

Right after his appointment we hit Cold Stone. It was right there.

He didn’t start swelling until he woke up the next day. It wasn’t too bad either, but so sad to see his face puffy for a couple of days. (Up his left side, up to his eye.)

His missing tooth – 2nd on the left.

Hopefully we won’t see this happen again - this kid is everywhere and falling all the time. But, he's still the happiest 19 month old around.

Oh Henry!

A Must Read

Have you heard of this? Dressing Your Truth - Discover Your Personal Beauty Profile

My sweet visiting teaching companion, Gwen, introduced this to me. She was very excited about it and was loving the results. I was pretty skeptical at first, (I think it was the beauty profile part, but have now learned it's really the energy profiling), but found that I couldn't stop thinking about it. Being bit of a cheapskate, after another friend bought the book, I kept asking to look at it. (I now own my own copy.)

In the book, the author and developer, Carol Tuttle, suggests 4 different beauty or energy types:

Type 1 - The bright, animated woman who says, " I have an idea.."

Type 2 - The soft, subtle woman who says, "What do we need to know and do to make the idea possible."

Type 3 - The rich, dynamic woman who says, "Let's go to work and get it done!"

Type 4 - The bold, striking woman who says, "Here is how we can make it better and here is how we can duplicate it."

Any idea which one you may be?

I've learned that we are all 4 types, but we lead with a dominant type, or expression. I've learned everything from personality traits, thought and feeling processes, communication, behavior tendencies, body language, and even physical features! A-mazing. Every woman should own this book.

Not to sound too overly dramatic, (like I haven't already..;) but this book has opened a new world to me; understanding my husband, each one of my children, my siblings and my friends, but mostly myself. I thought that I was 2 other types before I finally figured out what type I dominantly expressed.

YOU NEED TO READ THIS BOOK.

I've learned that I can not only really FEEL like myself and EXPRESS myself, but I can DRESS myself and bring out that true nature.

For Valentine's Day, Ryan bought me the course.

Read the book.
Then let me know so we can talk. More info here.

Heaps of Cuteness

Perhaps if the laundry was this cute, I'd do it more often.


But it isn't.

So I'll continue to despise it - but keep lovin' this little guy.

And his heaps of cuteness.

Mother of the Year!

I awarded myself Mother of the Year when we brought this beauty home for Clay.

A Gary Fisher bike found at Goodwill for $60!
(I actually forgot I had seen it until later that evening.
Thankfully, when I remembered, Ryan and I raced back to the store and it was still there!)

Ryan replaced one of the brake cables and an inner tube and Clay was good to go.
Well, after I first took if for a spin.
To be sure it was safe and to show him some tricks.
Okay, no tricks.

This came in well under Clay's budget so he got to pay for the
replacement parts, too, with still some change to spare.

A good day.

I'm Sure You've Heard the News, But Just In Case . . .

My sister's getting married!!

Meet Travis Beckett - aren't they cute?!
So so happy!

What Would You Say?

(I'm getting behind in my posts, but that's what a month of sickness will do. Boo.)

We could hear the storm blowing in, the winds were crazy last night.
We were warned that we'd get about .5" of snow..
I'm pretty sure this isn't half an inch, but what would you say? ;)


I try not to give our trusty Colorado meteorologists a hard time.
My meteorologist professor said that weather is hard to predict in mountainous regions.
This storm sure packed a punch this time.

But we're used to being punched.
It certainly isn't like the last storm where it swirled over us dumping 18 inches.
And, maybe we'll get some play time again.

Miss Olivia.
It reminds me of this picture from back in the day. :)