I am so ready for warmer spring weather. Winter with all of its piles of snow has gone on way too long. We are supposed to get warmer weather in the 50s this weekend. I hope so. The consolation is that every day is one day closer to spring.
Brad and I are planning a family reunion for my family this summer in Utah. I think we have narrowed the weekends down to August 4th and have found a cabin in the mountains between Salt Lake City and Park City that would accommodate our entire family. We have never had a family reunion before with just our immediate family and it is probably about time we do.
Amy lost one of her upper front teeth this week. The left one has been wiggly for months it seems and all of a sudden the right tooth started wiggling and was out within a week. I am so glad. She has quite a bit of space between her two front teeth and as the teeth were becoming looser and being pushed out of the way by her permanent teeth, the teeth were beginning to stick out at an angle and spread farther apart. I sure do hope that her permanent teeth come in without such a big space.
Amy is a believer in the tooth fairy, and I somewhat reluctantly go along with the myth. So she puts her tooth under pillow Tuesday night and went to bed anticipating finding money under her pillow the next morning. Chris and I forgot. She came downstairs on Wednesday morning, held the tooth out to me and said, “The tooth fairy forgot.” Dang. So we told her that the tooth fairy probably got stuck on the East Coast in the big storms they are having and that likely her wings were frozen. That seemed to do it. She believed us and dutifully placed her tooth under her pillow for another night. We remembered last night thankfully. So when I went into her room this morning, she exclaimed, “The tooth fairy came!...She only left a dollar.” Man, we just can’t win.
Amy lost the other front tooth last week. She was pretty brave about letting me pull it out. She complains and whines about her teeth forever, it seems, and when I tell her just to pull it out, she says, “No.” But, when she begins to complain that her tooth is hurting, I know that she is close to letting me remove it. So she stuck it under her pillow last Friday night and woke up Saturday morning to find that the Tooth Fairy had forgotten her again. We are so lame at this tooth fairy stuff. So we tell her to put it under her pillow again and see what happens. I thought this time I would give her $2 since we had forgotten her two times in a row. When she woke up in the morning, I realized that the Tooth Fairy was even more generous than she had planned on being. I had left $3 under her pillow. Going back to the usual $1 per tooth is going to be quite a blow. Maybe I should just leave a quarter next time.
Amy and Misha anticipated the coming of Valentine’s Day yesterday and giving and receiving Valentine cards. Both had parties in their classes at school. I attended Misha’s since I am in charge of all her parties. It was a lot of sugar and some chaos. To make it a little simpler in passing out the cards, Mrs. Stephen had requested that each child just sign their name to the card without putting a child’s name on the card to whom it was given. Some parents can’t follow the simplest of instructions or still have to go the extra mile.
