Thanksgiving 2010

We spent Thanksgiving Day at Grandma and Grandpa's. The kiddos had a blast playing with their cousins and seeing all of their family. Lil Pete had started out the week with a cold and it really started to act up towards the end of Thanksgiving. He did well, but started getting the grouchies.

By Friday morning, he was really out of sorts and the girls were starting their tour with the lovely cold, so we had to miss going to Nana and Papa's. Luckily we got together towards the end of the weekend to celebrate Thanksgiving.

For all my "photog" friends - the pic of my parents standing in the street with the kiddos is my best edit yet!! I'm still so new and not near where all you all, BUT I"m really happy with it! I took out a WHOLE stop sign!! :)

New company Family Holiday Party

Vegas here we come . . .just kidding (I wish!)

Pete started working at a new company a few months ago and they had their holiday family party this weekend. It was fun to meet alot of his co workers and they had it at a fantastic place: Dave and Busters! Now, the older kids seemed to be having a lot of fun, but our kids were pretty mesmerized - they had never seen anything like that! The company gave us FIVE play cards with pretty much unlimited tokens on them. We very quickly got alot of tickets, which enabled the kiddos to pick out something from the "toy store" that they probably wouldn't have been able to get had we been paying to play the games!!

Disney on Ice

Grandma was nice enough to treat all of us to a day of fun at Disney on Ice Friday. I (very smartly) decided that it would be much easier if Hailey went and had fun somewhere else, and boy, was I glad I did that! She had a blast at her friend Luke's house while Avery and Pete had fun at the Ice Capades!!


Avery and Pete were a great audience. This was definitely the longest sitting time that we have ever done (2 hours!), but they were mesmerized. They became a little ansy towards the end, but I was so proud of my little ones!

My sister-in-law Jamie and her children, Avalynn and Kylynn also joined in on the fun! Grandma got to spend some good quality time with the grandkids!

My toothless wonder

You may remember not too long ago, A,P, & H went to the dentist and we got the news that Pete's front tooth was going to have to come out.

I have really been so upset by this, isn't that silly? Here are a couple of the irrational reasons:

1) I didn't want him to have to go through it. I didn't want it to hurt him or "terrorize" him by scaring him from going to the dentist anymore.

2) I really didn't want my cute little baby faced precious boy to be a "toothless wonder" - I know, so superficial, but, hey, I'm not perfect.

3) I started getting scared by talking with people and hearing how missing teeth can cause speech delays. (I mean you would have thought I should have called my SPEECH PATHOLOGIST sister to find out the true story, but once again - I am not perfect.)

4) I really didn't want to pay for it. Yet again, not a very good reason, but we already have medical bills coming out the wazoo from PREVIOUS injuries - I really hate to add to an already daunting pile.

So I kept putting it off. I made appointments, spoke with the nurses and then canceled the appointment (um, that happened twice - don't you know they just LOVED me). Well, finally the decision was made for me - I happened to look at Pete's tooth and saw the tell-tale puss that I had been told to watch for - infected tooth. It had to come out, funny how God makes a decision for you sometimes, isn't it?

Long story short, my little baby was totally unphased by the whole procedure. The dentist (very nicely) told me that I was overreacting, my sister assured me that the chance of speech delays from 1 loose tooth is pretty minimal, my kid got nitrous oxide gased up, his mommy held his hand - and he lost his front tooth.

Say hello to our little toothless wonder . . .don't tell anyone, but I think he might even be cuter now! :)