16th tooth...whew!

On Monday, December 19, Adam went to visit the orthodontist.  He has been going for some time now.  He has very crowded teeth, and she has been watching his dental developments.  On this visit, she pointed out that he has 4 teeth where the adult teeth are coming in over, or to the side of  the baby teeth.  I had no idea this was happening.  I guess at a certain age, I just stopped checking the boys teeth on a regular basis.  I know they brush, I know they floss, I know they got all their baby teeth, and I stopped.

After that visit, I started calling different offices and checking on their appointment dates, and how much it is to have baby teeth removed.  Adam was having a hard time with the whole idea of this.  He had 2 baby teeth removed, to make room, a couple of years ago.  He felt like the Dr. lied to him.  They said it would not hurt, he said it hurt.  They said the teeth had not been removed, when in fact, they had.  Mike and I decided that since he was a bit flustered about all of this it might be better to go with an oral surgeon and let Adam "take a little nap" while this is being done.  However, with oral surgery, comes a higher cost! 

Friday, December 23rd, Adam came to me and showed me he had lost a tooth!  He only had 5 to lose yet, and I was really hoping it was not the 1 tooth that was not to be removed by the oral surgeon.  I was very elated to find, in deed, it was one of the teeth that was to be removed.  Now we are down to 3 that need to come out.

Total of 4 more teeth to come out now.

15th tooth

On Friday, December 9, I was talking on the phone when Adam came up and plopped his tooth in front of me.  I had no idea that he even had a loose tooth!  I guess we are getting to end of this road.  5 more teeth to go!

14th Tooth

Mike and I did not do many of the fictitious holiday characters with our boys.  Well, we only did 1.  We did the tooth fairy, although we did not it very well.

Adam had a loose tooth that had been bothering him. On November 2, he came to me, with the tooth in his hand.

I was so glad that he was able to get the tooth out.  I knew it had been bothering him, so now he would have some relief.  I made a mental note that the "tooth fairy" needed to make a visit to his room after he goes to bed.

The evening continued and life happened and I went to bed....with out doing my tooth fairy duties.  At about 12:30 I woke up and suddenly remembered the tooth.  I grabbed my phone, went to my purse and grabbed a dollar, then I went to Adam's room to make the switch.  Then I went back to bed.  I had no sooner got cozy, but I had the thought..."What if I didn't grab a dollar, what if I grabbed a 5, a 10 or a 20!  Ugh...so I got up, grabbed my phone again and went back to his room to double check.  Yes, it was a dollar.  Now I could sleep.

When Adam got up in the morning I asked if he got anything from the tooth fairy.  His response was, "I didn't check"  My first thought was, I did all of that in the middle of the night, because he usually checks first thing, and this is the time that he does not check.  Oh my!

Later that day, I was out running some errands with Adam.  I asked again, "did you get anything from the tooth fairy?"  He said, "Yes, and mom, I know about the tooth fairy.  The only thing is...I can't figure out if it is you or dad."

I guess there is a little mystery still left in the fun we have.  We will only be able to do this for 6 more teeth.

He's a Winner

Our area has a local summer fair.  I have gone to this fair for most of my life.  I have often gone through the exhibit building, and admired all the lovely crafts, baking, and woodworking that people submit.  I have always thought, "Wow! It must be nice to be so talented!" Never even thinking to try to submit something, because I always assumed others things were way better than mine, without even trying.

This year, however, Lana said she was going to have Grace bake some cookies.  I started thinking...Maybe Adam would like to try something.  We looked into how to enter items, and we made a plan. Adam picked a recipe.  I got the items we needed in order to make the bars.

The items were to be  turned in on Monday morning.  So, Sunday afternoon Adam got to work.

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I had to work that day, but my mom agreed to take the food items in and get them submitted.  Monday evening Matt and Lana took their kids to the fair.  It wasn't long and I got a call saying that Adam won a ribbon.  He got 3rd place.  

I think he was pretty pleased.

He even got a small monetary reward.

This is his first ribbon.  He is very proud of it.

And he is already thinking of what he should make next year.

Big Day

Earlier this week, we had an evening that was full of, "Wow, this is where we are in life?" moments.

For some time now, I have been telling Adam that he might want to consider that he might need to start shaving.  He was really resistant (Unlike his brother who started shaving when you could barely see anything)  Not sure what clicked, but one evening he decided it was time.

It's hard for me to believe that we are already going down this road.

That very same day, Austin got his DMV book to start studying for his learners permit.  As he was studying I had to think, again, "I can't believe we are here already."

The boys are growing and I have to let that happen.

13th Tooth

A while back Adam mentioned that he had a loose tooth.  He never makes much of a fuss about his loose teeth, so I don't think I have heard much about it since that first mention.

This evening we were eating dinner with my parents.  Adam finished and walked away from the table.  That was fine.  The kids and do their thing, while we adults sit and talk around the table.  After a while Adam comes to me with a was of toilet paper in his mouth and something in his hand.  He hands me a tooth.  I was surprised, but then remembered he had a loose one. 

All I have is change in my wallet.  I hope he is okay with the tooth fairy give change instead of bills.

Beach Vacation 2016

In the cold of winter, we Kiser women sat down and started looking for beach houses.  It seemed at that point that the week we chose would be a long ways off.  However, it really did not take long for the last week of July to come.

On Sunday July 24 we headed to the beach.  It didn't take us long to head to the beach.

Adam made several "seats" in the sand. 

I loved seeing that he still loved to play in the sand.

On Monday we celebrated Adam's 13th Birthday.  He had thought we were staying in a hotel, so he kept telling me that we could have birthday "glop." That is marshmallows, pretzels, and other things that are thrown in a bag to make a sort of trail mix.  Then he found out that we had a house.  He decided on Chocolate cake, with Chocolate icing, and Chocolate chips.  He also wanted Oreos, we left them on the side (as not everyone loves Oreos, and it already had a lot of chocolate!) 

I got a quick snap shot of my 13 year old!

One day we got a paddle board and we all had turns on it.

Adam gave the experience a thumbs up!

I tend to err on the side of caution.  If I were a flavor of  ice cream I would be vanilla--not overly exciting.  However every now and then you need some sprinkles on that vanilla ice cream.  I got my sprinkles and got on that board.

Austin was able to stand.  I don't know how!  But he did!

 And he had a great victory pose!

Mike got on the board too.  He went out way further than I was comfortable with.  It was really easy to get out and not realize how far you were.  But, he came back in safely, thank goodness!

Mom and Dad were at the beach.  We got a really cute picture of them.

On Tuesday, we had family pictures done.  For being taken by us, they are not too bad!

The boys.

Our family picture.

The whole Kiser family.

 A rare picture of just Mike and I.

My guys! 

On Friday, Carol was going deep sea fishing with Eamon.  She invited Austin to come along.

Austin eagerly got out of bed at an early hour to head out to the boat. 

He even caught a few fish!

Someone took a picture of the 3 on the boat.  Austin, Carol, and Eamon.

There was one day that Lana, Mom, Grace and I were out in the ocean.  We saw lots of fish popping on the water.  We saw dolphins out in the ocean, and thought that was really neat.  Before long, we saw a dolphin come within 10 ft of us to grab some breakfast.  The fish exploded out of the water and went swimming in all directions.  What an experience!

I didn't get too many pictures because I did not take my phone to the beach due to the sand and water.  I gathered a few from other people.  I hope these are enough to help the boys remember the wonderful time we had.

We spent a lot of time in the ocean, sand and at the pool.  In the evenings, we played a lot of games, and laughed a lot.  We had a fantastic week.  We all came home rested, relaxed, and ready to to sleep in our own beds again.