My Sweet, Silly, & Growing Kids!

Well this past week has kept us moving! Here are the kids before leaving for school on pajama day they were so excited to wear pjs to school, and of course Madalynn couldn't be left out of the picture! You got to love the bed head hair on her!

Our growing kid! A little while back Will came to us very excited and said he had a loose tooth! He was was happy to have his first tooth coming out, so as time passed it wasn't getting any more loose so we told him to keep wiggling it with his tongue and it would come out. We talked to James' mom and she said James' sister Katrina's teeth would get loose then get tight again and eventually had to go to the dentist and have her teeth pulled. We didn't want this to happen to Will so we helped to wiggle it and kept encouraging him to do it. Then last week while eating an apple( those always do it) his tooth started to come out, we had to finish pulling it but now Will has lost his first tooth! He is so excited that it is his turn for the tooth fairy to come to him!(not the greatest picture but you can see where his tooth was on the bottom middle.)

Our VERY silly kid! Madalynn came downstairs the other day dressed like this, we were laughing so hard she was making sound effects and acting like she was batman! She very much wants to be with and doing whatever Olivia and Will are doing. I think it is the best that she dressed as batman is carrying her baby. A day doesn't go by that she has that baby and is feeding it or putting it to bed. She tells us to shhhh then says "baby night night" she keeps us laughing. But she is our most stubborn and independent child, she wants help with some things but other things she gets very upset if we try to help. We are excited to go to Utah next weekend so our families can she the kids, but Madalynn has changed the most since we moved!

Our sweet kid! In this picture Olivia is dressed up to go to school and they are going on a field trip to the symphony and were told they could dress up if they want to, and of course she did! This past week she came to me and told me she was saving up her gotchas(a gotcha is a slip of blue paper a teacher gives you if they catch you doing something good) so she could get a shirt. If you collect different amounts you get different things, in the past she had turned in 10 gotchas and gotten a free pass to go bowling, so James and Olivia had a daddy/daughter date and went bowling just the 2 of them. Will thought that was very fun and wanted to have a day with just daddy, so he wanted to collect gotchas and get the bowling pass and go with daddy. Well at the school some teachers use them more than others and sadly Will's teacher doesn't use them very much and Olivia's does. So after Olivia told me she was saving her gotchas, she needs 35 for a shirt, she told me she wanted to take 10 of hers and get a bowling pass for Will for his birthday. She told me she knew it might be hard to get the 35 she needs for her shirt but she knew how much Will wanted a special trip with daddy. I was so proud of her for thinking of her brother and doing such a sweet thing, she came home from school on Friday ready to give it to him so he and daddy could go on Saturday and had left it at school. So we jumped in the car and got back to her classroom, luckily her teacher was still there and she got the pass and gave it to Will. I am so happy my kids love each other and that Olivia is so loving and sweet!