365: Day 20

Vacation time

After pretty miserable weather in June and July we were so blessed by amazing weather for our vacation.  We returned to Wellfleet on Cape Cod where I spent all of my summers growing up.  It was so much fun to introduce my kids to the same things that I enjoyed at their age.  We had a wonderful week swimming in the big waves on the ocean side as well as the warm waters of the bay side and in the  many lakes and spending time with the kids cousins as well as my cousins.

Kathryn

Will and Chris

Charlie and Bampa

  

My mom and Dad

The Keevers

 

Sunset at Mayo Beach

 

walking the beach at night

 

Daddy and Zack

 

Passed out after along day at the beach

 

 

Our makeshift drive-in

 

Laura, Pam and I did all of the cooking and menu planning for the week.  We had a different theme each night.  The food was fantastic!  I’ll update with the recipes soon.

 

 

Read Across America Week

Last week Lauren's school celebrated Read Across America week. they had activities every day that week to promote reading; celebrity readers, green eggs and ham in the cafeteria, a storyteller, local authors etc. Our favorite day though was the day that they encouraged the kids to come to school dressed as their favorite story book character. Can anyone guess who Lauren went as???

She went as Fancy Nancy!

My baby is growing up

Lauren discovered that her tooth was loose back in early December. She was so excited because all of her friends have already lost several teeth. her teeth came in late as a baby so I had a feeling that they would fall out late too.


Finally after months of wiggling it was almost ready to fall out. I had a feeling that it would happen soon so I took some pictures for the 'before'


Wiggling, wiggling, wiggling






You could even see how loose it was




Then it was so loose that it didn't even stand up straight anymore



She ate raw carrots and an apple with her lunch but nothing happened. She BEGGED me to tie a string around the tooth and the other end on a doorknob to rip it out but I couldn't bring myself to do that. Finally I sent her up to her room to play telling her that it would fall out when it was ready.


A short while later Kathryn came running down yelling for me to come up because Lauren's tooth had fallen out. I walked into their room to find Lauren with her hand cupping her chin, sobbing. She moved her hand and I saw that it was full of blood. I immediately started to comfort her because I know how she feels about blood. She looked up at me and said "No Mommy, I am crying because I am just so happy".

Then she asked to borrow my cell phone to call Daddy, Auntie and Grampa to tell them her news.

She left the tooth under her pillow in a special box that she had decorated in anticipation. The tooth fairy left not only a $5 but a special glittery certificate, childrens tooth flossers and glittery toothpaste.

Now the one next to it is getting really loose......

History in the making

Since both of the girls just attend school in the morning they were both home in time to watch the inauguration with me. They were very interested for about 30 minutes and I am so glad that I got to share this special moment in history with them,

Kathryn and Zack watch the swearing in of President Obama

Little Mommy

Lauren insisted that I take pictures of her and Kathryn with their dolls and share them here. So without further ado I introduce you to Abby, Emmy and Flower.

Lauren's Birthday Party

Lauren chose to have a Hannah Montana Dance Party for her birthday this year. The party was held at her dance studio http://www.danceimpressionswindham.com/ and Miss Debbie did a fantastic job. The girls had a blast.






Showing off her new Hannah Montana costume





The party started with dress-up, make-up and nails







Followed by dancing, dancing and more dancing

Zack loved watching the girls dance

Then the girls formed a conga line and danced their way to the cake

Opening presents and a big hug for Maddie

Thank you everyone!