Finally...A lost tooth

We had another big event this weekend. Sophie would be mortified if I did not mention that she lost her first tooth. She has been waiting for this moment for at least 2 years. She noticed that it was loose on our vacation to San Diego. Maxton also noticed he had a loose tooth at that time. He has long since lost that tooth and she has been so upset about that. Since she is older than Max, she should have lost her tooth first. Sophie came into my bedroom on Saturday morning and asked me if I would help her wiggle her tooth, this is an almost everyday ritual for us. I noticed it was a little looser, so, I just yanked, and out it came. She was soooo excited. She put it under her pillow and the Tooth Fairy gave her $1.00.

Later that day, Connor came up to me and informed me that the Nail Fairy gives money to little kids that put finger nails under their pillows. This was news to me. I have never heard of the Nail Fairy. I'm thinking that my kids are hard up for money. What do you think?

Shoe Love

One afternoon last week I decided it was time to stop procrastinating, and to just dive in head first (literally) and clean out Zoe and Sophie's closet. This is one of the messiest places in the house. Everything just gets shoved in there. About once every 6 months or so, I clean it out and organize it. I tell the girls that it is their responsibility to keep it clean, and 6 months later I do it again. Well, it is time again to repeat this process, however, I think it has been more like 8 months this time.

Well anyway, I got started. A D.I. bag on one side of me, and a garbage bag on the other. Whenever I would come across a shoe I would throw it behind me into a pile.
(I would have to see which child they fit.) Two D.I. bags, one garbage bag and one hour later I was done! Yippee. All I had to do was match up the shoes that I had thrown into the center of the room, make the girls try them on, discard the old ones and I would be done until sometime next spring. What a relief, Or so I thought. As I started pairing up the shoes, I noticed that there were more than 20 pair! 25 to be exact! How was this possible? How did two little girls, ages 9 and 6 acquire so many shoes? As I studied the pile, I was hoping to find that they were a couple of years old. They weren't. All shoes had been purchased from last July on. Some of them were birthday gifts, one pair was from last Christmas, another for Camp. A pair of ballet slippers, Jazz shoes, soccer shoes were in there too. I didn't even bother counting the numerous pairs of slippers and flip-flops. The remaining shoes were just for school.

What have I done? Have I created little shoe-loving mini-me's? I do have a love of shoes. Have I passed the Shoe Love gene on to my girls, or are they just the willing recipients of my obsession?

When I went to elementry school, I had two pair of shoes, one pair of tennis shoes, and one pair of nice shoes should I ever need to wear a dress to school. I know that I always wanted to be like one of those cool girls who had cute shoes to go with each outfit, maybe I am living vicariously through Zoe and Sophie.

What ever the reason is, I know I LOVE to buy shoes, but I need to get a grip when it comes to my girls. (poor little Connor doesn't have many shoes, I guess I don't think they make cute shoes for boys...) This year they are only getting new shoes if their old ones are too small. We went shoes shopping today, everyone got 2 new pair and that is it until snow boots! (or possibly a really good sale. What? You can't expect me to go cold turkey!)

Fisrt Day of School...X2

I can't believe our summer is already over and it is time to get back into the familiar school routine. It seems we were just celebrating the last day of school, looking forward to a summer of possibilities. And it is already over. That is another definite down side to year-round school. Zoe and Sophie were only out for 7 weeks.

We did get to do some fun things this summer. Zoe and I went to St. George with Girl Scouts for a "Girl's Weekend" and got to see Sound of Music at Tuachan. Then there was that oh so fun Girl Scout camping trip. We did go on a really fun trip to San Diego. Zoe go to go on a couple of boating trips with her friends and we all made some trips to Evie's pool. I guess I can't complain, I just wish we had a more traditional summer. I know that when I was in Elementary, we didn't go back to school until after Labor Day. Why can't we go back to that?

Monday was Zoe's first day back to school. She is such a trooper. She said she was a little nervous but more excited than anything. This is the first time she has had a man teacher. Mr. Duncan. I think that is why she was a little nervous. Everyone kept telling her how mean he was, and that he mumbles a lot.

She came home from school saying she had a great day, and that Mr. Duncan was really nice. The only thing that seemed to bother her was the fact that he told the class he had to drink a cup of coffee every morning so that he wouldn't be grouchy. I think she is worried about his Eternal Salvation.



Sophie started 1st grade on Tuesday. She got to go meet her teacher, Mrs. Keetch on Monday at an open house. She was a great student in kindergarten and loved every second of it. She never wanted to miss a day. This year she seems a little more apprehensive. She is very worried about being at school all day. She keeps telling me to make sure that I don't go anywhere all day in case she needs me. I walked her to school on Tuesday morning. She has a lot of her little friends in her class from last year, I thought that would make her feel better, but it didn't. When her teacher came out to get the class she walked in with a brave little smile, but sad little eyes. It broke my heart. I wanted to tell her that I would go sit with her all day, but I knew I couldn't do that.

When she got home on Tuesday she said she had a good day, but she wasn't going back.
I guess it will take her a little while to adjust. Only 10 months until next summer!