More of That Growing Up Stuff

Kayla lost her first tooth on Saturday.  It has been loose for quite a while and she could not stop wiggling it.  It became quite a habit.  On one hand I'm glad it's gone.  I have never been a fan of loose, dangling teeth.  Ask any 4th grader I ever taught. It's a little different when it is your own child, but not much. But on the other hand, losing a tooth means she is growing up.  I have tried to convince her not to have a birthday this year and to just stay 5 forever.  She didn't go for that idea.  I guess I will just have to accept that my little girl is growing up. Now we wait for loose tooth #2 to fall out.  Fortunately for me it is barely loose so I won't have to look at it dangling there for a little while longer.

Macy had a special prayer the night after the tooth fell out.

"Dear Jesus, thank you that my teeth have lots of glue on them so that they don't fall out like Kayla's." 

Gotta love 3-year-olds!

Just a Couple of Silly Girls

Randomness

Macy asked for pig-tails the other day.  I haven't put her hair up like this in a LONG time, but it sure made her sassy all morning long.  Sassy in a cute way, of course. :)

Yesterday I was so worn out.  With trying to keep the house in order since it is on the market I guess I just hit a wall.  I didn't want to do anything but curl up under my blanket. My back and head were hurting and I was tired.  Thankfully I had my PT appointment that evening. I came home feeling so much better, and then I saw that Marc and the girls had cleaned up downstairs and Kayla had even helped vacuum.  She was so proud of herself. I will definitely have to keep that one in mind...

This morning was cold and rainy.  The girls stayed in their pajamas all day, and in fact I just put them in bed wearing the same pajamas.  They had a bath last night and didn't really do anything all day, so I decided to be lazy.  Don't judge. :) 

They curled up together and Macy watched Kayla play a computer game.

And for some strange reason I thought that if I put Brooke on the chair too that she would cuddle up with them. Nah, she just crawled all over them.

And now I will take a moment to brag on my hubby.  For the last 5 years he has been working on his PhD.  We didn't realize that it had been that long until he looked it up the other night.  Well 5 years of hard work is coming to an end.  He has submitted his dissertation to his reading committee and is planning on his defense the first part of March.  See that thing? That would be 217 pages of a whole bunch of stuff I have no clue about.  He has worked so hard and his advisor has been really impressed with how much work he has done and how well he has done it.  Throughout the process he has published several papers (one of which won a Best Paper award at a conference) and received a couple of patents (or have them pending). As nice as it is for me to see a light at the end of the tunnel, I can only imagine how he feels.