First Lost Tooth

Mackenzie lost her first tooth this week.  She has been wiggling it for a while and it came out first thing in the morning.  No blood (thank goodness).  I am sure that when she is older and I am looking through pictures I will be confused as to when she lost her first tooth, since she is wearing a halloween shirt, but it goes along with our year of crazy holiday scheduling.

She received a gold coin (dollar) from the tooth fairy and of course she wants to use it to buy candy.  I am sure the dentist would approve.

The kids spent a long weekend with my parents last weekend.  They had a blast.  Mackenzie is really into spending the night away from home now, she was only back a day before she was asking to spend the night somewhere else again.  I swear they aged at least a year in the 4 days they were gone.  Isaac is becoming quite the little man and when I talked on the phone with Mackenzie I could have sworn she was at least ten.  Only a few more months until (gulp) kindergarten.

Update:  Mackenzie got a gold dollar from the tooth fairy, as predicted.  When I asked her what she wanted to spend the gold dollar on, she said "Candy".  I am sure that is just what the tooth fairy would have wanted her to spend it on.  When I took her to the candy store, she didn't want to actually spend the gold dollar, so we took two dollars worth of quarters out of her bank (which most likely came from her dad's coin jar) and went to the candy store in Maumee.  Mackenzie picked out some Princess ring pops for herself.  When we were at the counter, I mentioned to her that there were candy sticks that Issac can have for twenty cents and she decided to get one for Issac (cherry).  In the car on the way home, I mentioned to her that I thought it was very nice of her to get her brother a piece of candy.  Her response: "I knew it was the right thing to do."  Once again, I am a proud mom.

Easter and Birthdays!

Last weekend was a crazy time but all around a good time.  Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Mike came for the weekend as did Tammy.  We had Isaac's birthday party on Saturday in absolutely perfect weather.  He got a lot of great new toys including his first super hero toys that did not come from McDonald's.  He is totally into superheroes lately.  He got a Batman figure from Mackenzie and Spiderman from the Easter Bunny.  He got Brian a Captain America for his birthday.  He also got Little People superheroes from Thomas and Nicholas.  He also had a Batman cake, a Batman balloon and a Spiderman balloon.  So although his birthday party didn't have a "theme" I think he officially had a Super Hero party.

We went to church on Easter.  Sadly, we have not been going to church since we moved, but hopefully Easter was our start, isn't that what Easter is all about after all?  Anyway, Tammy and Mom and Dad went to church with us.  It was packed, but we got great seats in the back and the kids behaved very well.  After church Mom, Dad and Tammy headed home and we headed to Grandma Linda and Grandpa Butch's for another round of Easter baskets and egg hunting.

Then we were off for Easter Brunch.  Once again the kids did excellent, we had a great time hanging out with everyone in the Phillips/Rogers clan, and we got to see the Easter bunny and fish!

Brian missed the picture since he was in the bathroom, so since I am on a picture kick today, here is a shot of my hubby:

So, a great weekend with family.



Happy Third Birthday, Isaac!

Isaac is 37 inches tall, 36.2 pounds and 3 years old!  In true 3 year old style, his original cake that actually said Happy Birthday Isaac on it landed upside down on the floor in the kitchen.  It was not his fault at all, but it was a bit devistating for him, but nothing that an episode of Jake and the Neverland Pirates couldn't fix.  Luckily we had a second cake (for Brian's birthday tomorrow) so we quickly frosted it and put all of the extra candy letters on added candles and voila, Happy Birthday Isaac!

Raising a Horder

I am raising a horder.  I will admit that I watched "My Extreme Affliction" recently about horders and they mentioned children of horders.  They showed a child having a meltdowm because his parents were trying to get rid of a broken down play house that he was too big for.  Mackenzie has always had a hard time giving things up.  We seem to finally have her convinced to donate clothes that don't fit her.  However, a couple of weeks ago she had a total meltdown when I threw out a toothbrush after giving her a replacement that was nearly identical.  She fished it out of the trash can and tried to use it.  Last week she broke a yo-yo and when I told her to throw it out, that we had other yo-yos, she had a complete breakdown and refused to throw it away.  I have no idea whether this is normal or not, but I actually looked up therapists this week.

On a lighter note, I took the kids fishing on Sunday with some co-workers and their kids.  Everyone had a ball (except maybe a couple of the fathers) despite that fact that we didn't catch a single fish.  Mackenzie and Isaac wore out their fishing poles practicing their casting.  I lost two bobbers and hooks in bushes/logs.  We all got a bit of a sunburn.