Mother-of-the-Year

 

Double-fisting suckers five minutes before dinner. Betcha never saw that technique in a parenting book…

Isn’t it Ironic?

That not much more than 5 years ago, Caleb and I were just as pained as Jacob was as he was springing the exact tooth he just lost. The inconsolable crying. The moodiness. Ugh. It was not fun for any of us.

 

It’s crazy how exciting it was for us all to see Jacob lose the tooth that was so much work to get!

“One tooth less” little boy!

Jacob lost his first tooth today! It has been a work in progress for about the past three weeks, and the little sucker was hanging by a thread when Jacob got home from school today. Caleb gave it a twist and popped it right out of Jacob’s mouth. A quick “owie,” no tears, and a couple drops of blood, and Jacob has been all giggles ever since! And tonight Jacob is trying very hard to stay awake so he can see firsthand if the tooth fairy actually exists…

[Before. That tooth was literally pointing out of his mouth!]

[Checking out his new look in the mirror.]

[Holding his tooth. A rite of passage for every little Kindergartner!]

Mason and I have been calling Jacob “Jack.” Short for Jack-o-Lantern. Very fitting!

Not so camera shy.

Mason makes lots of faces.


This one punctuates his craziness. This is what Mason probably looks like for at least half of every day. On camera or not.


This one says "I'm innocent. But not really."


And good grief, I am sure glad faces don't actually get "stuck"!!!

Mason has a very wide range of expressions. It is what makes him. He is nutso!

Word Explosion!

This little girl has a big vocabulary!

Words not included in the video are (ba)nana, wawa, night night, doggy, woof woof, toot, woah!, uh-oh, ewwww!, what's that?, hey you, and papa. I absolutely love baby talk!

Crazy.

Crazy hair. On a crazy kid. For crazy hair day at school. What will really be crazy is if this doesn't wash out of his beautiful blonde hair. As the warning on the spray says...

This is how we roll.

Tonight as Jacob was playing with his flash cards, he announced "5 beer bottle caps." Yes. In our house that is what those would be called. But, really, what else has bottle caps?!