Meg lost her 1st tooth!

Megan had a bottom center tooth that has been loose for weeks. She's been stressed about it coming out, even asked why God made teeth that fall out.

This evening she was brushing her teeth, came running out yelling "Mommy and Daddy it came out while I was spitting". She was so excited that it came out so easy and wasn't painful.

The tooth is now under her pillow in a tiny white pillow made for the tooth fairy.
Now we await the toothfairy's arrival, she's deciding what is appropriate for a 5yr old's tooth!

Megan already knows about the toothfairy as she had to have a tooth pulled a while ago due to it being malformed. The tooth fairy sort of went overboard with payment for that tooth b/c she felt bad for Megan.

My baby is growing up.

Visiting Santa

Megan has seen Santa from afar several times this season, however she really wanted to talk to him face to face. So, last night we decided to head to the mall to see Santa and then have dinner. It was pouring rain and cold so we thought that would reduce the crowd (LOL!! We waited about an hour and half and were very hungry by the time we got thru!)

They did a nice job with the set up. There's a station to write a letter to Santa, a Naughty or Nice Meter,
a chimney that blew snow, Santa's workshop with belts of Build A Bears going over head and wrapped packages falling into Santa's bag, a mailbox to mail your letter to Santa (when the kids opened the mail box snow blew out- very cute!) and of course Santa himself.

The wait was worth it. Meg was so happy. And she had to take her stuffed Santa to see the real one (I manged to keep her from bringing 3 Rudolphs and Clarice!)
Kel enjoying the sights

Trying to get pictures, aka mission impossible

We haven't made it to get studio pictures done this year. I thought that since Kev is a pretty good photographer we'd do some at home and include them in our Christmas cards.
Well, regardless of how good the photographer is if the subjects don't cooperate it's useless..



These 2 will likely challenge Kev's skill as a photographer and push his abilities with Photoshop (he has taken a head from one picture pasted it into another picture to get a good shot for someone else's Christmas card, maybe he can do that for us)
Or maybe those who receive our cards will have to imagine how the girls look- that will have to be better than what we have so far!

Bunch of stuff!

Happy belated Thanksgiving. I am thankful for so much- we are so blessed. We managed to see both my family and Kev's parents over the holiday.

The girls are doing well. So are Kevin and I.

Meg's 1st report card and parent teacher conference went well. Her teacher says she is kind and participates in class. and is above or on target in every area. She loves music and PE, needs to work on her handwritting and taking appropriate risks (wonder which parent she gets the last 2 from???).

Megan asked Jesus into her heart the day before Thanksgiving, what a wonderful blessing! It was spontaneous during her bedtime prayers. She and I had talked about it a few weeks back when she asked me a question, and she hadn't said anything since. But apparently she had been thinking about it.

Kellie is still her busy self- she's into undressing, running, holding crayons (she doesn't quite get the concept of drawing yet), and closing doors (it's a slight obsessive thing). She loves to play with dolls- putting them into highchairs and strollers and feeding them bottles, mothering them. She is still pretty much a cheesocarbitarian, but is gaining weight so it's working! She adores Megan and Megan is such a great big sister.

Kel isn't really talking much yet, but she definitely communicates well (and sometimes just does stuff herself- like get cookies out of the cabinet).

So, there's our update. Just everyday life, but that's life!