Great-Grandma Doris turned 92 on Friday!
She got her hair done to celebrate & Aunt Tara & her friend Carla came up to visit & spend the weekend. We had cake & she got lots of flowers!
In an attempt to restrain myself from blabbing on and on about the rugrats, I've started a blog to upload photos and videos and the occasional story for your internet browsing pleasure.
Great-Grandma Doris turned 92 on Friday!
She got her hair done to celebrate & Aunt Tara & her friend Carla came up to visit & spend the weekend. We had cake & she got lots of flowers!
Leah finally lost her first tooth two days before her 7th birthday!
It was helped along some by her bonking her chin with her knee whist jumping off the swings on the playground. She worried mightily about if for the whole 21 hours it was loose. She was especially concerned that it would come out during swim lessons and be lost in the water (which didn’t happen!)
This is what she looked like every time I tried to get a picture of the loose tooth (very alarmed!)
Leah had a filling and James had to get a chipped tooth fixed back-to-back at the dentist. We had to wait a while to be seen!
She had opinions about the chairs in the lobby & I made a video (youtube uploaded this as a "short" so I hope this works!):All in all, she did a better job with this filling than her first one - I think the cavity wasn't quite as bad & she's older & more mature!
James chipped one of his front teeth on the playground at school goofing around. I was surprised that the temporary fix was only $75 - the dentist did warn us that it would probably fall out "a few times" before he could get a crown as an adult (which will be more invasive/expensive).
Sam had a birthday! We took the kids to HuHot, which they liked & he got a free meal. Leah tried new foods - like baby corn & water chestnuts. She was not particularly a fan :P But it was fun. Sam's folks are keeping the kids this weekend so we can go out & maybe watch a movie.
Leah & James & I decorated cupcakes:
Leah made a VERY LARGE tent/fort with the queen air mattress for a floor & the couch and credenza as walls in the living room.
Here the first thing that came up when I searched the blog for "tent": https://babybuffaloe.blogspot.com/2014/08/play-tent.html (2014!!)
And this is a too-small tent built by James during remote schooling times: https://babybuffaloe.blogspot.com/2020/05/homeschool-week-8.html
Here's another post from a while ago that was sitting in the drafts folder! James went on a big Smoky Mountain science trip with the 5th grade. Here is the very long line of kids & parents waiting to check them in at the admin building. They chartered big nice busses & drove overnight so the kids could sleep & arrive at their destination in TN in the AM.
And then at the 11th hour, James found out his friend would be able to come after all - he'd been 1st on the waitlist until the morning of the trip & found out at school that day that he'd be able to go. The teachers who were on the trip uploaded a bunch (and I mean a BUNCH) of photos every night. We stalked through them & here are few!
Sam took the big kids to the Fabulous Fox Theater in St Louis to see Beetlejuice (the musical). They prepared by listening to the soundtrack over and over. (Last year! I think I was waiting on Sam to make some comments about it for the blog, but I've given up.)
Here’s some pictures from earlier in the month when we did get some snow - just an inch or two, though! They'd predicted maybe up to 8 inches in advance of the front. It was a slushy mess!