Biirrrrrs

I have a few more pictures to write about and share but today the girl are occupying the computer.  The other day on the news they showed an owl box where they were waiting on 5 eggs to hatch.  I remembered it this morning and found it on the web.  One egg has hatched, I think it did yesterday, but the two little girls are just sitting watching this owl and are amazed. I have been able to just leave them sitting in the chair together and actually get a few things accomplished.  Emmalyn is so excited she has even started saying bird, well she is really saying biirrrrrs but we all know what she means.  There are 4 more eggs to hatch and they say that they should hatch every 2 days so the next should happen tomorrow.  After the eggs all hatch they will be in the box for about 80 days before they all "leave the nest".  So if your little ones are curious or like birds here is the link to check it out. http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/the-owl-box

I don't like this white stuff….

A week or so ago we were driving to go pick up the big kids from school when Hannah muttered something about “this white stuff”  from her seat in the back of the car.

I had to ask her to tell me again what she was trying to say.  She said,

“Mommy, I do not like this white stuff.

What white stuff, sweetheart?

This white stuff that is coming in the car and going on my legs.

Hannah, that is just the sun because it is not rainy or cloudy today. 

Mommy I see some clouds, so make the white stuff go away.” 

Luckily at that time I turned a corner and the sun was on a different side of the car and I was her hero, well at least for a little while until we had to turn again. 

Isn't it sad that it has been so yucky for so long that she forgot what it was like to have the sun shine on her?

Hannah’s Teeth

Many of you have heard the story of Hannah’s two front teeth but here are some pictures of her showing off her new hole (back in November).  

Here is the short story of what happened:

Scott, Spencer and Hannah were goofing around in the front room when they were supposed to be reading a story before bed.  In the middle (or I guess it was the end of play) of playing around Hannah fell, teeth first into the piano bench.  One tooth was chipped pretty badly, and the other one was bleeding across the middle of the tooth horizontally.  She had fractured the tooth horizontally across the front part of her tooth and when it reached the middle the fracture mad a 90 degree turn and went up through the rest of her tooth up into the gums.  It is really hard to describe but her tooth was completely destroyed and only still in her mouth because they were being held in by her gums.  The first person available to see her was our regular dentist.  We went to the dentist where several of the dentists in the office looked at her and her x-rays and decided that we needed to see a pediatric dentist.  So we waited the day at the pediatric dentist to get in between appointments.  All of them looked at her and her x-rays and were afraid of doing more harm than good because it was fractured so badly and there were small fractures inside the gums.  So they referred us to an oral surgeon that does well with kids but by this time it was after 5 pm and he was closed.  They also tried several other surgeons just to try and get her in that night but didn't have any luck.  The next morning we got a call from the surgeon telling us to come it right away and he would take care of her.  When we got there, the receptionist was calling all of the appointments from that day and pushing their appointments back to squeeze Hannah in first thing.  This guy was amazing.  He did his exam thing and gave us two options.  The fractured tooth obviously had to come out but with the chipped tooth he could pull it too or try a pulpectomy where they scrape all of the nerves and stuff and fill the tooth in with ceramic stuff.  But there was only a 50% chance of it lasting a year and then it went down to a 30% chance of lasting longer than that.  Then it too would need to be pulled.  So we thought it would be less traumatic if she had them both pulled at once while she was “out” rather than having the one pulled and then having to go back several times for the stages of the pulpectomy and then having it pulled shortly there after.  So before she turned 3 our little girl “lost” her two front teeth.  (And yes that was the really short story)

We are now hoping that she follows after Kaitlyn who lost her first tooth shortly after turning 5, rather than Spencer who is 6 with no signs of a tooth coming loose any time soon.

My favorite Christmas Present…

and the kids too!  Sorry I am a bad blogger.  I will try to be better.  Yes there are still dishes to be done, laundry to be washed and some already waiting to be folded and a bathroom to clean, but I just had a nagging to do something with my blog so here I sit. 

My favorite Christmas Present I got was a new vacuum.  This was so exciting for me because my last one was so bad that we first had to sweep the carpet and just use the vacuum to try and get as much of the dust out of it as we could.  I got a Dyson Ball for Christmas and I actually enjoy vacuuming the carpets.  First off it works!, plus is is so light weight and it turns and maneuvers so wonderfully.    And can you believe it the kids actually fight to see who GETS to vacuum the floor.  I have been keeping it in the corner kind of behind the TV because it is small and I use it multiple times a day (oh yeah and probably the biggest reason is that stuff got shoved around in the hall closet by someone other than me and I have not decided to tackle it yet.)   

Even Emmalyn love to pull out the vacuum and clean the carpets, that is when she is not using it as a microphone.  I have been trying to get pictures of her singing into the handle and vacuuming but she always runs away and pouts when she sees me watching her.  I was able to get just this one shot of her last month.