Beginning of the End

I've been dreading this day:

The first wiggly tooth 

How gross! I cringe with every bit of me. If my children never lost their sweet, perfectly aligned baby teeth I would be he happiest mother ever! After you pass the gross wiggling you're left with the awkward growing in phase. These nubby teeth erupt and will take the next 6 years to finish falling out and growing in. More wiggling and more holes. Ahhhhh. 

What's worse is that they now have expectations for this disgusting phenomenon! Thank you mother. She with her pillow, in addition to tales traded at school, have left the ladies eager for this nonsense. More than once I've had to talk down this tooth fairy business. I never wanted to go down this path but now that I'm here I refuse to keep up with the Joneses! We keep things simple here. 

So what is the going rate for teeth??

Hopeful dear Miss C doesn't spend her day wiggling and prying this tooth out. We have ballet pictures Saturday!! Save me this one last set of over priced pictures!!

Heading to the Zoo!

Most people enjoy their evenings sans children. Most people. Once the ladies were in bed DH worked out, go you! My fatness and I headed into the kitchen! I made and froze cookie dough. Six dozen balls of chocolate and walnut that will be baked to perfection and land safely in my tummy! Then I prepared some corn for freezing. I found out my crabs and shrimp were bad-boo. I made a shelf of trash in the fridge-a whole shelf. Saturday was my family reunion [post coming-late as usual] and there was way too much food. Of course I brought home crabs and sat them in the sink-and took a nap. So now I will throw all those delicious, FREE, meaty crabs away. No crab cakes, soup, stuffed salmon, drool..... I did get a lot of food for the girls and was able to freeze a lot of corn for winter which is nice. I love being suzie homemaker! I also received a huge can of beans, which will hopefully help my low-iron-having-refuses-to-eat-meat kid boost her levels and ditch the iron. How horrible is it that I am more worried about her teeth turning grey than her over all health? My iron is always low, and for years I've seen my doctors huff and puff over it, just as they do with my mother. We are just not iron people I guess. This further fuels my distrust of doctors knowing what's best. Anyhow...With the iron came the toothbrushes, and with the toothbrushes came upset babies! Emma loves her toothbrush, just not in her mouth. How do you get them to brush?

I made a picnic lunch for the family! Tomorrow we are taking the girls to the zoo! I'm so excited, I love seeing the animals up close. At the same time it makes me very sad to see them penned in. I would rather animals in zoo only be injured ones that were saved, but I'll step off my soap box. Maybe I can visit Marcia and go on a safari! With money being tight at the end of summer(guess who is counting down to the start of school!!!!), I decided to take advantage of Zoodays. Tuesdays through August admission is half price and everyone gets a free frozen treat! Since the girls get in free, that is $14 for admission for a family of four with a treat! Score!

Does anyone else can/preserve/freeze food?
I have more peaches, tomatoes and sauce, applesauce, apples, and apple butter in my future! What else can I can?

WTF Wednesday

Hark! In the darkness, beyond the milk encrusted lips and beneath the drooly tongue, what is that? Protruding from that bottom jaw?? A TOOTH!

WTF? Where was I? We're at dinner tonight, we ate out because I'm sick which makes me far lazier that my normal lazy self. Yummy Noo.dles.&.Co.! The girls get fussy in their chairs so out they go. DH is holding Claire and she grab hold of his cheese laden finger and chomp.

DH: "There's a tooth in there!"

ME: thinks to self Suuuure there is "Really? Like a real tooth or an "about to be almost kinda just at the surface but not yet broken through" tooth?"

DH: "It's there."

So we go about our evening, buy some baby clothes and some sinus meds and home we go. After bottles while we're getting ready for bed she grabs my finger. WTF? THERE IS A TOOTH! When did that happen? Oh that's right, I've been watching fuss pot Emma for the last week with her whining and chewing and drooling and "about to be almost kinda just at the surface but not yet broken through" tooth. Claire didn't have the tooth yesterday, it was still in the almost phase. So sometimes in the last 24 hours she has gained the ability to draw blood in a new way! GRRRREAT! Poor Em is still chugging along with her whiney kinda sorta wish this part would hurry up already tooth.

Lesson Learned: It's always when you're looking the other way! Time to break out the mesh feeders, maybe this will help with food!

Oh food, WTF! Happy Wednesday