#4 is No More!

Trent's tooth that is. But just to mention it, Brett Favre did actually retire this year.
It's about time one of Trent's teeth comes out on it's own, with very little drama! Just a little wrestling with a friend and the tooth pops out!

A Perfect 10!

The flags were waving as she slowly stepped up, not once, but twice, to the top of the podium. The gold medal winners spot. The crowd cheered as she held her hands high! It was a perfect 10!Such form!Such grace!So they all got to go on the platform and collet gold medals, so what! It was real for them! And the Parents and Grandparents in the bleachers couldn't have been more proud!Go Callie!

Fisher-Girl

"Mom can we go fishing?" How can I say no to a request like that!
Twinkle Toes - we already know they are the shoe of choice for Cheerleading, apparently they are lucky fishing shoes too.No fish off the seawall, so we hiked it up the lake trail a bit. Little mud sliding gets ya right down to the action.The girl doesn't mind "getting her feet wet, and then of course,eventually her whole body!"I wish I can go fishing all the time."

Lego Me

Meet Lego Trent and Lego Owen. Lego Candy! Thanks Gran!
Lego Land, aka. our basement table.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mothers Day to all the Mom's out there. My Mom is an amazing Mom. For all the things she did and still does for us, I am so grateful. I hope some day my kids feel the same about me.
I was definitely feelin' the love this Mother's Day. My day started with the proverbial breakfast in bed. Callie got up even earlier for Mother's Day than she did when the Easter Bunny came. That made me feel special.
The kids gave me a Crown to wear. Queen for a day? I'm a Queen for Life! Trent made me a very creative Hershey Kiss Heart Card and invited me to go to a movie with him. HIS treat! Such a gentleman offering to pay! Callie made a nice clay creation at school.
We capped off the day with dinner at my favorite resturant, Kirches. You may remember I also celebrated my Birthday there. I even ordered dessert! A great day.

Mom, Can We Play Something?

Callie is always asking to play something....School, Queen and Princess, Dance Show, Art Shop, Pretty Pretty Princess. This time "Little Puppy" and "Liz" played with us. Aren't they pretty?Trent was hesitant to join us considering the premise of the game. I finally convinced him that he could use the Malificent piece and he was a pirate collecting treasure. That was all it took, and he and I played a round even after Callie got bored of it!

Toothful Tales

Back in December 2009, after month's of being loose, Trent finally lost his first tooth. (Read about it here - Click on it) We have started to notice a trend. His second tooth had to be pulled by the dentist because his other tooth had completely grown in behind it.(Read about it here - Click on it). His third tooth has been just as stubborn, until we finally had to take matters into our own hands! This was March 10th. His teacher left me a voicemail saying he had an abscess in his gums, and she used to work for a dentist, and we should get it checked out. Lucky for us, Trent's dentist is also one of his hockey coaches and we'd be seeing him that night. He suggested we get the tooth out if we can otherwise, he could prescribe some antibiotics. Well, the later wasen't gonna happen, so operation tooth removal began. There was wiggling, there was twisting, there were even pliers involved. That tooth was so loose, but not coming out! Luckily Marshall was the man for this job, I am not good with this kind of stuff. Finally he wrapped a piece of floss up under the tooth, around the root. A swift yank (my stomach churns just recalling this!), a loud scream, a major gush of blood, and the tooth was out! A quick call to Coach Einer and that was that. Tooth out, abcess drained. Success! And an extra bump in the tooth fairy $ for the difficulty endured!
Now his fourth loose tooth has been no exception. Wiggly since the third tooth incident, but not coming out. And he really does work on them, it's not like he leaves them alone! Suprisingly he even still lets US near his teeth, but I don't think any of us could go through what we did with tooth #2 again!Looking like a real hockey player, just in time for the tournament. The tournament where there are no winners and no loosers! (HA! We know. Won two games, lost the third, but who's counting!)