The Concerns of a 3 Year Old

Yesterday afternoon, after a three hour typing session (I work from home), I was finally able to take a break. Noah ate his lunch and I cleaned up the kitchen and put in a load of laundry. One of the best parts of my day was about to take place...sitting down on the couch with my lunch and getting my daily Young and the Restless fix. Noah was in the playroom watching cartoons and enjoying one of his favorite things...a sucker. All of a sudden, little feet are running down the hall as fast as they can. He entered the den and the shear concern on his face was nothing like I had ever seen from him before. I spoke to him, but he completely ignored me. I watched for a second and then realized what he was up to...he climbed up in the big arm chair in our den and proceeded to stand up so that he could see in the mirror. He stood there for what seemed like an eternity studying himself. Still without saying a word, he climbed down, made his way over to me and just looked at me with the funniest look on his face. Then he says..."Mama...my mou...is boo!"

Don't we all wish we could sometimes go back to a time in our lives when our greatest concern is what color the sucker is making our tongues?

Tooth Fairy

So, the Tooth Fairy finally made his first visit to our house over the Christmas break. (For any of you who are familiar with The Santa Claus movies will understand why we refer to the Tooth Fairy as a he.) The Lord decided to evoke his sense of humor on us and blessed Makenna with a few "teeth issues". Let's start with the bottom...most kids lose the two middle teeth on the bottom first around ages 5-6. Well, one of Makenna's bottom middle teeth was fused...yes, I said fused, to the tooth next to it. This would be a tooth that children don't generally lose until around ages 7-8. Needless to say, this was a problem. Not only that, but when you looked in Makenna's mouth, you could see her big girl teeth already coming in behind the baby teeth. In comes the dentist. I was dreading this with all that is in me. Makenna, of course, had no idea this would be happening. We told her that Dr. Jen just needed to look and see if everything was okay. Thank goodness the dentist uses gas to sedate the children, although it may have been better suited for me or her daddy! Before she knew it, three teeth were missing. Piece of cake!! There were a few tears shed, but I have to admit that they were mine and not hers. And even with all of the pacing, Daddy was unable to wear a hole in the carpet of the destist office, much to their relief.

As I said previously, Makenna was blessed with teeth issues...plural. On to the bottom. Makenna feels as though she is extra special becuase God gave her an extra tooth on the top. Count the teeth in your mouth. How many teeth are between your canine teeth? Four right...not for Makenna. She actually has five and this is crowding her big girl teeth. Right now, her two top middle teeth and the extra tooth ar loose. Hopefully we can get her to wiggle one or two out before we have to make another trip to the dentist. I'm not sure she would be quite as cooperative.

Anywho...the Tooth Fairy did come by in the middle of the night and replaced Makenna's three teeth with $3.00, which for Makenna was the most important thing anyway.

Merry Christmas 2008

Gingerbread House

Here are a few pictures of the Gingerbread House that Makenna and I built at Kindergarten this year. I went to the school to help the class and had so much fun.