Lexi's First Fallen Out Tooth

Well, well, well... what an exciting morning did we have. Lexi lost her first tooth. Well,... not really.... but the others she lost, were actually pulled by the dentist. But, this is the first one that we had to do on our own! Let me start the story off with,... the it makes me VERY nauceous.... teeth that is.

I'm not too sure why, and I can handle a lot of things..... but show me a loose tooth and I get weak in the knees!!

So,.... Lexi and I are up this morning getting ready for school. She runs into the living room, where I am sitting with this distressed look on her face.... "Mommmmmmmm......". I was thinking she saw a scorpion, had broken her baby toe, or something horrible!! But then she showed me.... the red stuff in her mouth! It was bleeding. Well,... obviously SHE is freaking out, so I need to keep my cool! So,... I calmly tell her to go into the bathroom and rinse her mouth out with water. After that, I tell her to brush her teeth. At this point, I am just trying to get her to school as fast as I can, so the school nurse can deal with it, and NOT me! After she brushed her teeth, she was in the bathroom for a while, and I just left her alone. Then I hear, "OH NO!!!" and Lexi runs into the kitchen. There is blood all over her hands and running down her chin. "oh no".... "stay strong!".... "don't faint".... I cover my eyes and hand her a paper towel. I am peeking through my fingers and watching her wiggle and jiggle her tooth. Then she says, "UH OH - It's coming out!". Then it just popped out... she was impressed that it didn't hurt, and SUPER excited that the tooth fairy was going to come over tonight.

Here's her new hole! And her new smile. It's super cute, and she even has a lisp. She was very giggly ALL morning!

Cooper's Rain Coat

Since SO much has been happening with Lexi, I felt the need to put a pic of Cooper on the blog. Here he is in his "new" rain coat. It was given to him by his God-brother and he LOVES it! But, he is a little fanatical about it.... which, would you expect anything else? He wants to wear it ALL the time.

So, now I am on the look-out for froggy rain boots.

Lexi's First Day of School!!

Lexi's FIRST day of 1st grade... a day late!

Lexi was sick the first day of school, so she had to start the following day!

I couldn't decide which picture to post, so.... i posted them ALL!

She was actually excited to go to school, which is really a blessing.

She was having ill feelings about returning to school.

Check out the stylish backpack!!!

Of coursr, with me being anal and her being excited, we were ready like 30 minutes before she had to leave!

Here, Lexi is showing off her VERY stylish side ponytail!

It's a good thing I caught the end of the 80's!!

And, of course, I have to take the outdoor shot.

By this point, it was finally light outside!!

And,... here she is by the front door of the school! About to go in....

I have to hold back the tears!!

And so,... she's off to a great year!! We are very optimistic and looking forward to getting to know new classmates and catching up with the old ones and getting to know her teacher better.

Lexi's New Teacher

Lexi's school has a great program where the teachers come to your house to meet you! It's only for a minute or two, but it is a great way to get some one-on-one time with the teacher. Yesterday was the big day!! Lexi made a FUN sign to hang on our door. She worked very hard on it! The teacher's name is Ms. Shore and she loved the banner. She seems very enthusiastic about teaching, so I hope that this year will be great. Lexi's anxiety is still a little high, but it has gone down a little. Tonight we will go to the school and check out her classroom!

Sea World

we recently took a trip to sea world.

we had SO much fun!!

the first day we were there for 12 hours straight!

crazy!!!!!

then, we went back the next day.

my favorite thing i got to do was pet and feed the dolphins.

it was SO awesome!!

here we all are in front of shamu!

cooper and lexi were SUPER silly!

here is cooper giving lexi a zerbert!

cooper was SO good! shockingly! even without a nap.

he got some spending money from my parents and what did he want....

a sword of course!!

lexi got to ride her first "big girl" roller coaster!

that is the one we rode behind her!

it was SUPER fun!!

we even got to be part of the sea lion show when one of the actors came up to us and started messing with clarence. he ate cooper's popcorn.... coop was NOT a big fan of that!

it was SO sunny!!

here's lexi stylin' in her summer hat.

here's cooper in his sun hat.

we luckily had a water mister to keep us cool.

at the end of the day:

the kids pooped out!!

as soon as their heads hit the pillow, they were OUT!

we were worried about how all of us sleeping together would be.

but, as you can see.... it was NO problem!!

coop even snuggled with his new friend...

a stuffed penguin!

bowling

OH what a fun time bowling!! Cooper had never been before and we all had a blast!!

I wish this picture turned out a little bit better, but I think, his enthusiasm still shows! he would be SO excited to get just one pin knocked over.

lexi did awesome! she is really getting down her form.

cooper was VERY intense. he ended up getting a strike, and you would have thought he won the lottery!

lexi was trying out a double-handed side throw.

cooper's favorite thing was to let the air blow up on his hair!

Lora visits!

my friend Lora came into town! we had a LOT of fun catching up and visiting with bridget and suzie.here's clarence and i.

bridget, me, and lora

lexi's last day

lexi had her last day of kinder. WOW.... i was much sadder than i ever thought i would be. i was upset that first day, but then it hit me.... she is now a 1ST GRADER!! then after that, a 2ND GRADER,..... do you see where i am going with this? it just went by WAY TOO fast!!

to celebrate lexi making it through the year, we ended the year the way we began. we had a party!! we cooked her fave food (ribs) and had suzie over. she LOVED it and had a blast!

of course, balloons had to be involved....

and it's not a party, without decorations! lexi LOVED it and really felt special!

sweetberry farms

one day, i took the kids to sweetberry farms in marble falls. we had such a good time!! here are the kids picking strawberries from the strawberry patch. lexi enjoyed this, cooper just wand to play in the dirt! :)

i really liked this picture. we were in the blackberry patches. the blackberries were still green, but the kids had a big conversation between the two of them and they were determined that they were going to find some that were ready to pick. even though they did not find any, it was so sweet!!

look closely, they are peeking through the ladybug spots!!

after eating a packed lunch ad some homemade strawberry icecream, made RIGHT there on the farm (and it is YUMMY!!!), we picked some potatoes. this was the kids favorite part - ...playing in the dirt! who knew?

cooper got tired of the potatoes soon, and just wanted to have some

good ole' dirt time!!

coopie

here are some fun pictures of cooper:

here he is at an inflatable warehouse. he absolutely LOVES going there but he will only get in ONE of the jumpables! PLEASE explain this! he does get to run around like crazy! maybe that's the appeal!

see how happy he is here! seriously, he LOVES it!

and,... he hates talking on the phone. here is one of the rare instances that he actually wanted ot be on the phone. he is talking to grandma cissy and big daddy and,..... maybe swiper, the cat.

camp-out

Lexi was a "daisy" girl scout this past year, and she LOVED it!!

as a troop, we were invited to join the older girls on one of their camp-outs (kindergartners are not allowed to stay overnight). The place we went to was beautiful, but it was SO stinkin' cold!! I felt really bad for the girls that had braved the bad storm the night before! Luckily, all of the moms in Lexi's troop are weinies like me, so we didn't stay the whole day!

Still, the girls had a blast and felt "grown" hanging out with the bigger girls.

Here is Lexi with her assigned buddy. They made habitats out of shoe boxes.
Here is the troop right before we headed home. They had just about had enough, and I know the moms were all ready to go!

happy Easter!!

we had a SUPER fun Easter!!! it was held a our house. my cousin, daisy brought this beautiful cake... isn't it cute! it tasted yummy too!!
granny and grandaddy came oer. here they are having fun with the kiddos.

grandma cissy and big daddy came up to spend the holiday with us. we ALL had SOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun!! even though it was a little cold, we managed and just made our Easter egg hunt a little shorter.

here we are the day before dyeing the eggs.

clarence got in on the fun and helped coop out.

daisy brought over SO many cupcakes and cookies for us to decorate. it took us a few hours to get it all done. but,.... we got to sample everything as we went along.

and,.... and Easter just wouldn't be the same without big daddy's "egg ears".....

firestation

cooper and i recently had a trip to the firestation. coop was leary at first, but then he warmed up.... until..... the fireman put on the full suit. then,.... he freaked out and cried and wanted to go home. quite the ordeal!!!

he calmed enough to take these pictures:

hanging with my girl!!

I got to go out with only grown-ups to celebrate the 30th birthday and one of my old high school friends. lora came into town, so OF COURSE, we had fun!!

don't we look good!?!?

OF COURSE,.... the next day i was SOOOOOO tired!!

i am not the spring chicken i used to be. hee hee