Bria Lost Her First Tooth!

And Oh the drama!

The thing was hanging by a thread. So Chris and I encouraged her to "work on it" a while before going back to bed. We were worried she'd swallow it during the night. It was THAT loose!

I went downstairs to pack up her things for school while she was working on her tooth. We'd foolishly agreed to let her take her DS to school "like all the other kids" to play during free time on Friday. I noticed it was missing from her case. Let's just say this was NOT a happy household for the next hour as we realized the thing was lost at school. Poor Bria especially shed a lot of tears over the whole ordeal. Notice the puffy eyes?

I FINALLY convinced her to calm down and forget about it tonight, try her wiggly tooth one more time and get some sleep. It was 11:30pm by this time.

Bria took a deep breath. Agreed. Tried her wiggly tooth and it came out! She was sooo excited she actually forgot about the DS! Thank Goodness!

We took pictures, put it in the special box she made for it, showed Daddy (who was almost asleep by this time) and I ushered her off to bed. As she left the bathroom with her precious box and the treasure it held... Bria had to look at it one more time...

She opened her box on the threshold of the bathroom right by a pile of wet towels... turned to look at it in the bathroom light and...

The darn thing wasn't in the box! We scoured the cream colored carpet, the cream colored bathroom floor, the ivory colored porcelain countertops for another 20 minutes. It was gone. Bria was devastated! And I was devastated for her! Two treasures lost in the same night. I was beginning to think we'd never get her calmed down and asleep.

I finally convinced her that the tooth fairy must be close by and in a hurry. The disappearance of the tooth that fast was some powerful magic and we'd better get to sleep right away so the tooth fairy could finish her business and move on to another kids' house. Bria agreed only on the condition that I print out a picture of her first tooth as proof that she lost it... and leave it with her special box... just in case.

Of course I did. I also spent another 20 minutes after she was asleep down on my hands and knees carefully going over the carpet again and shaking out each bath towel in the hallway looking for that tooth.

Let's just say that the tooth fairy will be leaving a surprise AND letting Bria keep her first tooth as a souvenir in the morning. :-)

Oh and by the way... she's already got another wiggly tooth in the spot right next to the one she just lost.

Bria's Got A Wiggly Tooth!

It's been getting steadily looser all week. We thought it would be out by now but she's holding onto it! haha

I also noticed that the gap where the wiggly tooth is keeps getting wider. I guess the adult tooth is pushing up fast. That and Bria keeps putting her tongue into the gap to wiggle her tooth.

We've already made a special tooth fairy box and Bria takes it to school everyday just in case her tooth comes out away from home.

Happy St. Pat's

Here are some cute photos of the kids on St. Patrick's Day.
Bria organized a leprechaun hunt in the back yard after school.
Unfortunately, I had to work late so I missed it. But I enjoyed the pics!

Before and After photos of Fireplace

Uncle Kenny built, upholstered and trimmed the window treatments by our fireplace! He finished the project yesterday and I'm so tickled!

Here's the before and after photos:

Update on the job front

A while back, I wrote in a post about how both Chris and I were seeking our next job assignements but did not know where we'd land. Well we both landed on our feet in mid-January and are happy with our new assignments so far. (In today's economy, that's a blessing not to be taken for granted!)

I am a bit jeolous that Chris has a shorter commute than I do... by about 20 minutes each way. Plus, I miss my part-time schedule and how it allowed me to spend more time with the kids. But I'm happy to continue to be gainfully employed and know that the bills will be paid on time!

We're also no longer participating in the au pair program. So CJ's preschool is a full day set-up and we found before and after school care for Bria. Both kids are very tired at the end of the day (just like Mom and Dad) but they like all of the new activities that they get to participate in.

So, all in all I suppose it's going well. At least we're determined to make the mose of it while it lasts.

CJ's First Day of Preschool

CJ started preschool after he turned 3 in mid-January.

I can't believe it's been 8 weeks already! Wow!

He's such a big boy now. He's got 2 or 3 "best" friends. He's fully potty trained. He's already had 3 birthday party invitations. And he has a ton of things to tell me, usually competing with Bria and fussing at her saying "Bria! Let me tell MY story now!" Ha ha Anyway, here are a few pics of his first day of school.

This last pic reminds me of Bria's first day of preschool back in Sept 2005!

CJ's Birthday (Movie Clip)

We had a low key birthday celebration for CJ in January.

Unfortunately, there was just too much going on at the time to throw yet another kiddie party. Plus, we were all still exhausted and recooperating from a busy, holiday and the double stomach flu month of December.


But we did go to Chuck E Cheese per his request and had a doughnut birthday cake to celebrate. Here are some belated pictures...

CJ and Daddy in a roller coaster simulator!

Here he is with doughnut birthday cake and his new Batcopter!

And below is Bria taking his birthday cake to him. He was all smiles :-)