Drink With a Chill

The other week I was out, running errands or something.  The temperature was frigid and there was snow on the ground!! It was a very cold evening.

While I was gone, Mike sent me a picture.

Apparently, he had bought Adam a small bottle of sparkling Grape juice.  Adam decided it needed a chill, so he sat on a sled, and chilled his juice.

He is always thinking ;)

A new sort of milestone

Austin hit a new sort of milestone this week.  He is at the stage in his life where he...has no more baby teeth!

He lost #20 this week.

What amazes me is that the boys are being watched by an orthodontist.  Last time we were there, she said, "I want to see them back in the summer.  Austin will have lost all his baby teeth by them."  I thought-certainly she doesn't know how slowly my boys got their teeth and how slowly they are losing them!  Boy, will she be surprised.

Nope, I was the one that was surprised! She really knows her stuff.

When he lost the tooth, I put it by my computer so I would remember to put it away and record this momentous event ;)  Yesterday I was walking by and something went flying on the counter that my computer sits on.  I looked and the tooth had split in half!  WHAT!?!?  I don't know what caused that, but I'm glad it didn't happen in his mouth ;)

...And Then There Was 1

I've said this before, this is not for interesting reading--I promise!  This is for future reference for my lovely future daughter in law ;)

Austin lost another tooth this week.  Seriously, I do not remember my teeth bothering me, like his loose baby teeth bother him.  One evening at dinner he told me he was sooooo hungry because he was barely able to eat his lunch.  Later that he evening I saw him really working on that tooth.  No too long later he came with the tooth in hand.  He was so happy to have that out of his mouth!

This is tooth number 19.  One more baby tooth, then I guess we are pretty set for orthodontics.

Braclets

Adam has taken to these rubber type bracelets that are given out at almost every corner.  We got one when we joined the reading program at the library, we got another when we did a program at school.  

When Adam entered 3rd grade he had 2.  He wore them on his ankles.  I would look at them every now and then.  I thought, "WOW! it is going to get tight one day, I wonder what he will do then..."

He wore them on his ankles through 4th grade, and he kept collecting.  Then over the summer he moved them to his wrists (and kept collecting).  

I have never seen him  have a fashion statement (is that what you call this?) for this long--it has been for 2 1/2 years!

This is what his arms look like.  However he recently broke a few, and traded one at school for a pencil sharpener.  Right now he has 10 in total.

I have been thinking of doing this post for a while now, I'm glad he continued this trend until I was able to get a picture.

Christmas Play

We have some amazing people at our church!  Every year, this wonderful lady does a Christmas play, where she works with about 60 (maybe more) kids!  Some years she has even written the play!

This year Adam was a Roman census taker.  He got to check Mary and Joseph as they came in for the census.  His character had trouble finding them in the books, but it didn't take long and he found them.  When he found them, his line was, "ah, very well."  It tickled me, because whenever he said this line, it sounded like he picked up some sort of British accent.

I tried to get a picture of Adam in the play, but I was not at a very good angle to have good lighting.  I did get this picture of Grace and Adam at a dress rehearsal.  I had trouble getting this picture, hence the blurry Adam...we will take what I can get.

The kids last year to be in the play is their 5th grade year.  This will be Adam's last year to be in the play.  The boys have had doing these plays over the past 4 Christmas'. 

But now we get to go watch Lana's kids be in the play.

Band

At Austin's school, they are required to take an instrument during their middle school years.  Austin chose the trumpet.  I have grown to love the sound of the trumpet more than I thought I would.  

 Every December they put on a Christmas concert.  I know what the songs sound like with the trumpet, but it always amazes me what they sound like with all the instruments.  They always do a great job!

He wants his next musical adventure to be the guitar. 

Another one...

Yep, another tooth...

Austin is my child who did not get his first tooth until he was 10 1/2 months old.  To me, that has always seemed like he was a "late" teether.  I was fine with that since the longer they stayed in his gums, the longer I knew those teeth were not my responsibility.

This morning, Austin came to me and said, "Lost another tooth."

I had no idea he had any that were loose!  I guess this makes about number 18!

This one must have been a hard one to get out.  He reported to me that in order to get it out, well...there was blood all over the sink.  YIKES!  I told him he was the lucky one that got to clean that up.

I had to look back and see how many teeth he has lost since school started, because it has seemed like a lot.  Since October he has lost 4, and he tells me another is on the way out!