First tooth, off and away!

Katherine lost her first tooth a few weeks ago.

It was actually a bit of a surprise.  See her friends had started losing teeth and so every day she'd tell us about another lose tooth...I think we were up to 7 loose teeth.  Then, one day I actually felt the tooth she'd been wiggling and darned if it wasn't lose!  Well it only took about a week after that to come out.  It came out on its own when she was eating pretzels.  No forcefully pulling teeth out at our house, thank you very much **shudders violently**

She was very excited as we'd been having daily conversation about the tooth fairy.  We'd told her the tooth fariy is very sneaky and special and always left different gifts in exchange for a tooth.  Each time would be different and you'd never know what she would leave.

That night she put her tooth under her pillow and tried her best to stay awake.  The tooth fairy did indeed visit, taking the tooth and leaving some fairy dust on her pillow (and face, much to her delight, as she figured she must have walked on her face to make sure she was sleeping).  She also left a small card with Thank You written inside in very fancy fairy script as well as some beautiful hair clips - shown below.

Everyone was delighted - Jane struggled a bit with not getting a gift, but Mama just happened to buy some new headbands for everyone so she got first pick of colors that morning, which helped :)

Easter Review

Easter was mellow with just the five of us.  We had a great day though, laid back with beautiful weather.

We died eggs the night before, and it went well.  This year we had the kids color the eggs  with crayons before dying an it was a big hit.  They felt more involved and the eggs turned out really cool.  Alice broke her egg shells, of course, but we just didn't die those ones.

Katherine got up first Easter morning.  She came in our room to wake us up AFTER she's checked out the goods in the kitchen :)  She was happy with her loot.

                            

The Easter bunny did a great job hiding eggs, if I do say so myself.  The girls had a great time hunting them up.  Alice was very strategic about her collecting, thought about how to get at some of the trickier eggs for awhile before collecting - cute.

  

Easter morning proved too exciting for Jane, she needed a power nap to recharge for church - it also may have been that Katherine had to wake her up to see what that sneaky bunny brought them.

                               

After church and some lunch some chalk coloring in the shade was in order.  Alice insisted on sitting ON the square I was coloring so they all turned out blurry and her butt looked like a rainbow.  Interestingly enough, this is the 4th dress she had on that day.  The first three got wet for various reasons.   Good thing she's got two older sisters and a million hand me downs, the kid can do outfit changes all day long and still not run out of clothes!

We had a wonderful day and rejoiced in the meaning of Easter with our family.  Hope yours was great too!