Little Story

The other day at work I shared a funny story with a co-worker, and I thought, "I have to record this, he may enjoy it one day."

I love to share stories with the boys about when they were younger.  I have done this for a long time.  When we need a good story in the car, I pull out one of these goodies.  I love how they laugh at what they did so many years ago.

When Austin was about in Kindergarten, I told a story about how when I was pregnant with Adam.  One day I wasn't sure if he was kicking enough.  I packed up Austin and went to my parents house to have a soda (we don't have soda at our house).

A week or so later we were on our way to church and Austin says, "I just love that story how we went to Mamaw and Papaw's because Adam wasn't kicking and you had a ...beer."

WHOA!!  Stop right there, I did nothing of the sort.

I knew if he had this story on his mind he was sure to share in Sunday School.  I went right to his Sunday School teacher to tell her the REAL story and explain the situation.

I still giggle over this!  That is a big difference soda vs. beer!

5K

Locally, we have a 5K every year in memory of a lady that passed away.  I have never run this particular 5K before, but I did this year.  

The difference this year was Adam wanted to run with me!  

We did some training for it, but not as much as I had hoped.  Adam was a great sport did great.  In this course you ran one loop, went to left under the finish line and ran it again.  However, when Adam saw the finish line-he was done.  So, I did the second loop by myself.  I cannot express how proud of him I am that he even ran the first half!

Before we left for the race, we had to get a few pictures:

 We had to have a little fun with the camera too.

It was a great experience for Adam and I loved being a part of it!

Jamestown

A little over a week ago, I went to Jamestown with Adam and is 4th grade class.  It was a quick whirlwind of a trip, but it was a lot of fun and very interesting.

 This was one of the first things we saw.  It is just a tower that marks the settlement of Jamestown.  The real place in Jamestown where Christopher Newport landed was about a mile up the road, but this is symbolic.

They are leaning how they fished.  Adam's best friend, Kasey, is holding the fishing pole.

I had to take a picture of their church pews.  So glad we have better seats in our church!

They had a circle of these faces.  Apparently, they danced in this circle.  (However, I must admit I love the bottom face best!)

 Just needed a picture of that dear boy!

The class got to sit in a boat that is very much like they used back then.  It is basically a hollowed out log.

This is a painting of the type of boats they used.  Adam insisted that we needed a picture of  it.

There was a map painted on the ground.  Adam got to "swim" across the ocean.

He got to try on their armor.

This was our group--all dressed up.  Fine young men!

It was a fast trip, but we learned a lot and still had time for fun!

10th Tooth

Two posts ago, I told the story of how Austin lost his 9th tooth.  At the end of that post I mentioned that he had not lost a tooth in over 2 years.

He lost that tooth on Wednesday.  Sunday he came to me with his 10th tooth.  He said, "It just came out."  I guess it was ready.

I did say, "You must be making up for lost time.  2 teeth in 1 week after 2 years of nothing..."

Fun With Bags

Last weekend was the Mennonite Relief Sale.  Mike and Austin, along wit Matt, were doing things there on Friday night.  Lana I were going at it alone with Adam, Grace, and Glen.  They came over and we made homemade pizza.  Then Grace and Adam found something to play with.

We have lots of bags around the house right now.  Lana and I are in the middle of making plarn bags (bags made out of plastic bags from the store)  There were some extras, so they....

Helped themselves to a little fun!  Glad to see they could find creativity in my mess!  :)

9th tooth

I am one of those sentimental moms that saves her kids baby teeth and writes the story as to how each tooth is lost.  Austin lost a tooth this week, however this time my records will be a little different.

Austin has had a loose tooth for some time.  I figured when it was ready to come out, it would.  Early this week he commented that it was getting really loose.  Okay, that is good.

Wednesday he came home from school and said, "I lost my tooth today."  First, I look at the new hole in his mouth. Then I ask, "where is your tooth?"

His reply was, "Well, I was walking through the soccer field with some friends and it came out so I spit it on the ground."

My first thought was, "well, I don't have that one for his baby book."  Then I thought, I can only imagine "some young mother out their with her children one lovely day.  Her you son (in my mind it was a son) found this intriguing rock.  He brings it to her and she looks at it, and realizes that it is no rock---it is none other than my sons tooth."

Oh well, there are worse things in the world than not having a baby tooth.  The story I imagine might make up for it.  :)

**The following was added Saturday morning**

My mother left a comment last night asking if the tooth fairy found the tooth out in the field?

Well, that was another funny part of the story that I forgot to add.

We do not do Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny at our house.  However, we do the tooth fairy.  Both of the boys know how it works, but it is just a fun little something to kind of celebrate a lost tooth.  Years ago Austin started writing notes to the tooth fairy when he would loose a tooth.  The tooth fairy is kind enough to write back each time  :)  This time his note asked she could give him $100 for his tooth.  She gently told him he would get $1 and need to loose 99 more teeth to make 99 more dollars.  (She is so wise!)

And interesting thing I found out last night... I looked back in Austins book where I hand write this information in (I am truly not sure why I do it both ways, but I do!  Austin lost his 8th tooth on 9/5/11.  That was over 2 years ago!  My boys were always late teethers, and the Dentist always comments that it is a good thing to loose teeth late.  It just really surprised me that is was that long in between losing teeth.