Lost Teeth & Scrapes

On Christmas Eve, after Ben's family's Christmas party, we went over to my Grandparents for a little while to say hello. Adam had a really loose tooth & I'd been bugging him to pull it out for about a week. Teeth make me queasy because of a few recurring nightmares of mine & Ben can't pull them out either, so our poor kids are on their own! Little did I know that my Aunt Bonnie is the teeth pulling queen. Maybe we should call her the tooth fairy. Anyways, after a lot of wiggling by my grandpa & Uncle Jay, Bonnie took Adam down the hall & out came the tooth! Then they dropped it in the carpet & it was almost lost for good, but we saved it! And according to my brother, the tooth fairy pays double on Christmas Eve! Lucky Adam! He lost his first tooth on Christmas Eve!

Adam showing off the hole in his smile. The tooth fairy really does pay double. I wonder if she met Santa Claus that night?

Then New Year's Day, out came the other one! He just wiggled and wiggled & pulled it out himself! I was so proud of him! And relieved that I didn't have to pull it out myself! It was an eventful Christmas break for Adam! Oh, and his best friend moved back into town. He's so excited that they're going to be in the same class again this year. Seriously excited!

Now he has a bigger hole in his smile! Not a very great picture, but you get the idea.

The weather up here has been really weird lately. It snowed a bunch at the end of December. When we came home after Christmas we had a good 2 feet. Then it warmed up (unheard of up here!) and the top of the snow formed a nasty ice crust that is impossible to walk on & miserable to play in. It's so slippery. The kids were playing outside today & were sledding down the snow hill next to our driveway, like they do every year. Amber is really accident prone anyways, but she tried to walk up the hill & slipped & smacked her face really good on the ice. She has the biggest fat lip I've ever seen! I feel so bad for her! She scraped up her chin & bruised her cheek too. Poor little thing!

Amber scraped up face. The picture doesn't quite do it justice. Her lip is huge!

Another view of the lip.

Ben and I are headed to Memphis this Wednesday. I'm excited! I've never been there before. Even though Ben has to work pretty much the whole time, I'm looking forward to some peace & quiet. I'm going to miss Orlando this year though. I've loved going there every February with him. 80 degrees in February! Oh well. I'll still take 50 in January! Maybe I'll remember to take pictures this time! :)