Kaitlyn lost her first baby tooth!!!

Earlier this evening Kaitlyn lost her first tooth. She had been playing with it and pulling at it for the past few days and without saying a word I noticed one minute it was there and the next minute it was gone. Uncle Ryan found it as he just began to look for it on the floor in the living room. She was in denial and mad or upset about it being out and did not want to show anyone her new smile, not sure what to think about the new gap in the front of her mouth but in a few short hours she now finds it to he fun and amusing and we cannot wait to see if the tooth fairy will visit tonight. While moving her tongue around tonight during her bath she discovered another is loose! It is exciting but I can not help but think about what seems like just yesterday when that very same tooth first poked through the gums. Back then I thought, "my little tiny baby is getting teeth. She's growing so fast, she's not a baby baby anymore." Now I don't know what to think as those little teeth are starting to fall out. Some days seem so long but right now it feels like the last 5.1/2 years have flown by so fast. I'm almost afraid to blink, if I do what will I miss? Funny what kinds of thoughts and emotions run through your mind at the loss of something as little as a tooth. I guess its a mom thing or is it just me? :)
Also included are pictures of Kiera's cute little hair-do. I hope she doesn't take scissors to her hair again but I'm glad she did. She really loves her new do and I think she looks adorable.

first look in the mirror at where her tooth used to be


getting a little comfortable about the whole ordeal with mommy


showing uncle Ryan


Kaitlyns new smile :)


Kiera showing off her new hair-do. Strike a pose or two or three sister! She's not camera shy like Kaitlyn tries to be sometimes.

Get Glam on a Cold Rainy Day

What better than to get glammed up on a cold rainy snowy day. As soem of you may have heard Kiera took a scissors to her hair and I have been contimplating hairstyles that will work to help the chopping grow out eveinly and make it look less stringy in certain areas. In the pic below because she is my baby she was only allowed to pick what color lip gloss she wanted on her picture. In real life she goes way overboard with my make up and usually ends up looking like she belongs on the cast of Jersey Shore. But I think this hair style could look adoreable on her. Kaitlyn picked all the colors and shades and hair style. she wanted to keep her length hair and add curls. She wanted a little bit of all the different makeup but nothing too drastic. As for my picture, well lets just say I did the best I could do with what I had to work with :)




So what do you think? Funny, huh?

Ready or Not

Here we grow again. An exciting milestone is about to begin. Kaitlyn has her 1st loose tooth! She's not too sure what to make of it. One night she's excited about it, the next night she won't even crack a smile in fear that it will fall out. She likes to wiggle it but then as it gets looser she has made if clear that she does not want to loose her baby teeth. I overheard her telling James the other night that she wanted to stay little for mommy. I guess I need to stop telling her that shes growing up too fast and no matter how big she gets she'll always be my baby. Seriously though, why do they have to grow up so fast? I wouldn't dare tell her but I don't think I'm ready for this either :)

Toothless grin pictures coming soon...

FINALLY A BREATH OF FRESH warmer AIR

Seems like we've been waiting for an eternity to play outside without having to be bundled up and that day finally came. Wed the temp climbed up to 72 degrees and there was no way we were going to pass up that opportunity to get out and take in the nice weather. We went to a park that has the rubber surfaces so we didn't have to deal with the soaking ground from all the snow and ice that is still melting away. The girls managed to find big mud puddles just off the walking path and eventually they were soaked about knee down but who cares. We were outside, having fun.

The girls driving a helicopter at Chuck E. Cheese a few weeks ago


Kaitlyn loves doing her exercises on our elliptical trainer.


Kiera passed out after playing in the snow


Kaitlyn looks tired after playing in the snow but she won't admit it


Fun at the Park!

Still Cold...

Not really too much to add. It's still winter. It's still cold and there is still snow on the ground with more expected in the next day or so. Kaitlyn is back to school for the second day in a row. We are anxious to see if they can get a full week of school in without the weather interfering. Last week every day was canceled which made for a 10 day weekend for all the kids in our school district. I think they now have to make up 12 days. Yikes. The snow days are fun at the time but when they start getting tacked onto the end of the year and interfering with vacation time, enough is enough. The last day of school was supposed to be May 13th, now we'll just have to wait and see. To stay occupied we've been to Chuck E. Cheese, played at the YMCA with friends had a little Superbowl party, went sledding, play out in the snow making snowmen then knocking them over, skating in our boots on the ice, shopping and other stuff as well. I'm starting to run out of ideas. I just hope the groundhogs prediction is correct. Well, that's about all for now. Stay tuned...