Jimmy Crack Corn....and I don't care.

(Danny says he looks like he just got in a fight...and it was...kinda)

It's been a few days so I thought I'd write in. Yesterday was Presidents Day and amazingly in February, I took the kids to the beach with a friend. The water felt like ice but the kids played in it anyway. They have super powers that I cannot explain. It was colder than a witches you-know-what. They came home with sand in every crevice and I came home with a sunburn, so it was a pretty productive day.

Also, we finally got our family pictures done with Melissa T Photography!! YAY! It was awesome & I can't wait to see these pics; they are SO overdue. Micah kept making this face where his jaw looks like a serious profile of Jay Leno (yuck) and Jadon was smiling so hard that he looked like he was going #2. Oh, Jadon also lost his tooth (see in pic)...speaking of which...

Jadon's tooth. I got a call from the school nurse (Helloooooo, Nurse!) who asked me if I could come in last week because Jadon busted his top tooth loose. So, Micah and I packed up and drove 2 blocks over to go see Jadon's predicament. Apparently, he was playing in class and fell down, busting his lower jaw up into his grill. He was TOTALLY freaked out (Naw, doesn't sound like Jadon at all, does it?...right). He didn't want to wiggle it; he made Danny and I wiggle it for him. He was totally dramatic about it. He would scream and run around the furniture from us when we would try to work on it so that it would eventually fall out. Long story short? It had been about 4 days since he knocked it loose and it was the day before our photoshoot. Do you really think that I wanted to pay $150 for some photos where my kid has a snaggle tooth hanging way lower than his other teeth? Bottom line- I held him down and Danny pulled it out. Before you go all "DCF" on me, I should mention that as soon as the dang tooth came out, Jadon got up and goes "Oh!" with a smile. DRAMAAAAAAAAAAA. Then he proceeded to play with the tooth until loosing it and cried because he said the tooth fairy wouldn't come. BTW, I should mention we never had done "Santa" or "Easter Bunny" with our kids but since he was so dramatic about this tooth, we decided to humor the "ToothFairy" lie. He wrote a note to "her" which I will also post pics of because it's so seriously cute. I saved the note & put a dollar under his pillow that night. I'm one ballin' toothfairy.

So, it's been quite an adventure the past few days. I also haven't been sleeping well. Last night I woke up twice to a cat (or two?) outside meowing like crazy. I don't know if they were fighting with each other or trying to 'get they swerve on'. Either way, it drove me crazy. The second time I woke up, it was so loud that Charlie (our dog) met me half way in our kitchen to look out our patio. There was a freaking black cat staring into my kitchen at Sophie (our cat) making all these crazy noises! The minute I pulled the shades up and it saw the dog, it hauled tail. If it comes back again, I may throw it on the spitz and eat it with a side of caesar salad.