Our first visit from the Tooth Fairy

Carson lost his first tooth yesterday. I talked him into pulling it out, it was just hanging there, being all bendy...eeeek! I couldn't look at it anymore- teeth should not be bendy.
So we found a little drawstring bag, and put the tooth in it, and put it under the pillow. We talked about how much he may get for his first tooth, I thought maybe $5 for a first tooth and $2 for each tooth after that was reasonable, he was happy with that too.
So this morning , he woke up and brought me what he found under his pillow. The bag that had the tooth now had 5 gold dollars in it and a note from the tooth fairy with fairy dust on it. He wasn't very excited about the coins, he was expecting a 5 dollar bill. I said do you want me to read you the note? He wasn't too excited about that either, but said "sure" anyway. The note said "Carson, Thank you for the tooth! It is so shiny and clean. Be sure to keep brushing everyday and take good care of your teeth! Have a happy day! Love, Isabella the Tooth Fairy". Again, not very excited about the note. Then I said"look, you have fairy dust on your face!" He marched right into the bathroom, got a washcloth wet and started scrubbing off any traces of fairy dust. A little while later he did find some more fairy dust on his bed and sprinkled it on his feet and then jumped off the back of the couch hoping to be able to fly.

Lessons learned from the first tooth fairy experience: girls may like all of the cutesy little fairy things, but boys just care about getting the cash. Now he is wondering when the next tooth will come out so he has enough money to go buy some Legos.

Quick trip to the beach

We went to the beach just for a little change of scenery on July 4th weekend. We love the beach! The boys could spend hours there and never get tired of it. It is a boys playground with huge amounts of sand and water together in the same place. We built castles, played with dump trucks and Tyson had to get buried. It was some fun family time.

Our first trip to the ER, guess who it was for...

TYSON! Some Dermabond and 3 hours at the hospital later, this is what we have to show for it. See his chin? We were at a sports store buying Carson some new shoes for basketball, and Tyson went and climbed on a weight bench. The bench part was not screwed in correctly or something, because as soon as he crawled up on it, it fell on to its side and Tyson hit his chin on the edge of the bench. I saw it happen, but then I heard him scream like he was really hurt. I rushed over to pick him up and his mouth and his chin were all bloody.



He bit through his tongue, too. His tongue swelled to twice its normal size, so he wouldn't really talk. But when he did, it sounded like he had a huge gumball in his mouth and I could hardly understand him.

He was a trooper. The doctor said his wound was deep enough that they needed to do something, but not deep enough for stitches. Thank heavens for no needles, and Dermabond. I wonder if super glue would work the same- just thinking for future incidents. He liked the graham crackers and blue Gatorade at the hospital. Why is it that the only snack choices at a hospital are oreos or graham crackers? And no juice, but every kind of soda under the sun. Super healthy :). And get this- the person who was telling us how to take care of the wound and giving us the discharge papers said "make sure he takes it easy for a few days, no climbing, running, bikes, etc. so that he doesn't re-open the wound". I just kind of looked at him like seriously, are you kidding me, how do you think we got here in the first place?! I can tell him to take it easy all I want, but he will still find a way to find something to jump off or climb.

Things I learned from our ER adventure:

* Always carry my cell phone with me at all times.

* Have my purse packed at all times with emergency survival items- gum, granola bars, water, first aid kit, wipes, antibacterial gel, chap stick, PHONE.

* Avoid ER at all costs, it is not a pleasant place sitting there with all of those very sick people for hours.

* Kids are resilient, he is doing much better already.

Thank you to a good neighbor who came over to our house to be with the other sleeping kids late at night so that Cory could come back to the hospital and pick us up.

Carsons kindergarten end of year program

Carson is almost done with kindergarten! He has one week left. I'm not sure about this year round school...it doesn't really feel like summer yet. But we are almost there!
They had a little end of year program, and they had all of the kids dress up as what they wanted to be when they grew up. Carson picked an astronaut, which is a great occupation, but I spent a week putting the "homemade" costume together. I liked the way it turned out, and Carson was thrilled with it. And, he wants to wear it again for Halloween...Yay!
This is him with his teacher, Mrs. Evans.



This is his whole class, he is up there in the upper left hand corner. Some of the other occupations the kids chose were:

• Tattoo artist
• Coroner
• Fighter pilot
• Secret agent
• 4 kids picked SWAT team
• professional skateboarder
• professional BMX racer
• wrestlers
• rock stars
• ballerinas
• doctor
• dentist
  

This is Carson and his buddy Rylan. He picked astronaut too.

Way to go on a great year Carson! I am so amazed at how much he has learned. First grade is in a month and a half! He will be gone all day, that will be weird.

Tysons preschool graduation

Tyson graduated from his preschool. He learned all of his colors, letters, shapes, fun songs and made some new little buddies. This was his teacher, Mrs. Andrea. She was great with the kids. She took them on fun field trips to the Shark Reef and Anderson Dairy. I already have Jaxon signed up to go to her preschool, which is only a little over a year away! Mind blowing to me, he is still my baby!


Check out his face...this was just about what it looked like through the whole program.

So on this video, they are singing a song, and Tyson is singing with his mouth closed. Yes, it is pretty hysterical. And then you can see his response to me trying to coax him into singing with his mouth open.

Thanks for the spice you add to life my little Tyson!

Fish breeders

Seriously, I think I gave birth to children who are part fish. They can spend hours swimming, and they do it with the greatest of ease. Jaxon just wants to be dunked all of the time, and Tyson will just sit there and bob up and down for what seems like a LONG time. Carson is all over the place, it's probably time to get him more swimming lessons to learn some swimming strokes and technique.

This video is of Jax, Tyson and Cory. The kids are showing off some of their tricks.

We do also have guppies that had babies, so we do have real fish breeding happening!

Memorial Day camping trip

On Memorial Day weekend, we went to Quail reservoir for a little camping trip with my sister and her family. We took the tent trailer, the boys love that thing! We had a great time. Tyson also learned how to ride his bike with no training wheels, he only has one speed now, FAST! As fast as his little legs can peddle.




We went hiking at Red Cliffs, the kids played in the river, we traversed cliffs with waterfalls. It was totally safe, really. It was great to go back to my old college stomping grounds with my family.




Jax fell asleep in the carrier, he was totally worn out.

The boys spent hours looking for lizards. Here they are discussing how they were going to catch one.

Thanks Shell for planning this trip, we should really do it more often! It was great to spend time with you and your family.