lost teeth and ghettofied gingerbread houses.

friday before school katie finally plucked out a loose tooth. it had been dangling by a string of flesh for several days (lovely visual i know) but she would not allow us to pull it out. at breakfast on friday she started crying as she was eating her cereal and said "mooom, it HURTS!" then she disappeared upstairs for awhile and when she came back downstairs she triumphantly showed me her tooth, in hand. she was very proud that she had pulled it out herself without crying.



the tooth fairy left her *three* dollars because everyone knows those front teeth are worth more. (at least that is what nathan says.)

on another note, katie and sam decorated gingerbread houses tonight....sort of. they were at a friend's house last night and they attempted to make gingerbread houses from one of the wilton box kits, with somewhat disastrous results. the icing was kind of runny and the houses didn't really set up right and they kept collapsing. we only got them put together and they didn't get to decorate them so i promised they could do some at home. being the cheapskate that i am, er, i mean, being as *thrifty* as i am, i couldn't justify BUYING a kit for $9 that would just end up getting thrown out. so last night after they went to bed i threw together a few houses with some graham crackers and some leftover wilton frosting i had, and they were ready to be decorated tonight.



frosting their graham cracker houses.


hard at work decorating.


decorating....


more decorating....


this is how sam looked much of the time. eating the decorations or licking frosting off his fingers.


he's very proud of his house.


so is she.



thanks for looking!

missing! lost tooth!

last month katie lost her 1st tooth. one day she came to me and said "mommy, this tooth is wiggly!" and sure enough, it was. she wiggled and wiggled and wiggled some more, but it stubbornly refused to come out. daddy offered (more than once) to help her along by pulling it out with a string, but she declined. she does *not* like blood and when she found out that it might bleed when it fell out, she thought that maybe she would just leave it in there, LOL. after about a week of it hanging in her mouth by a teeny little thread, she ran into the kitchen one day frantically pointing to her mouth. it was dangling out of her mouth but still attached, so i plucked it off. in honor of the occasion, i made her a tooth fairy pillow from this tutorial. makes it *ever* so much easier for the tooth fairy ;0)



not even a week after she lost the first one (on 1-14-09), she lost the other bottom front tooth! her grown-up teeth are poking through now....