Evangeline started her first day back to school in 2016 with a bang. She lost her first tooth! On Christmas Eve she had mentioned that her tooth hurt. She went to look at it in the mirror and came running in telling me that she was growing a new tooth. I looked inside her mouth and about fell over in shock when I saw that her bottom left front tooth was, indeed, growing in behind the baby tooth.
It really started getting wiggly before school last Monday after taking a few bites of her Cheerios. She was obsessing over it. She wouldn't eat her cereal and barely ate any yogurt. She was too distracted and excited to do anything. I finally had to tell her that she couldn't look at her tooth in the mirror anymore until she was all ready for school. Around 8:30 she came into my classroom with a little treasure box in her hand with her tooth inside. We were both so excited. She told me that she was sitting there during calendar time and that "it was hanging by one little thing". She said that she went up to Mrs. Crumrin and showed her. Mrs. Crumrin wiggled it a little and then told her to twist it. Out it popped! She got to pick out a little box to keep it in from the nurses office. She loved recounting the events of her lost tooth all day and I loved hearing about it. That night she kept asking if it was time for bed. She absolutely couldn't wait for the Tooth Fairy to come. She decorated a little envelope to put the tooth in and wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy that said, "Can you please bring me something sweet? Love, Evangeline". (She thought she may have lost her sweet tooth and insisted that all things sweet tasted weird. She was hoping the Tooth Fairy would bring her something sweet to make sweet things taste good again...all this was thanks to Pinkalicious.) She was so excited to discover that the Tooth Fairy left her a dollar and a pack of sugar-free gum..... Oh, and in case you were worried, sweet things taste good to her again.
The next day she said she was ready for more teeth to come out because yesterday had been so exciting. She said, "it was like a party in my head".
Another thing that happened over Christmas break was Jed learning that he can put his arms up in the air. I had him laying next to me while folding laundry yesterday and I let him hold a sock. He kept lifting it over his head, which was so stinking cute because his arms are so short.
I felt very productive today. Sunday School, laundry, grocery shopping, trying out my new cast-iron Dutch oven, cleaning, organizing, repotting my new clearance plants...It was a good day.
All of these clearance plants from WallyWorld: $3.50
Beautiful flower pots costume made for me by my amazing father: Priceless.
No comments:
Post a Comment