Finished Product

Here is the finished product of the Christmas Tree. We had to wait and put the lights and decorations on after Aiden went to bed. So the next morning he was so excited and had to investigate it all!!!

The Christmas Tree - 2009

Yesterday (Friday), we went to the Christmas tree farm to cut down our tree. It was freezing cold! It was 39 degrees when we first got there, but it warmed up some by the time we went home. These are some pictures from our adventure.

Tooth number two!

Jaycie lost her second tooth last night. So the tooth fairy got to come again!! She requested that the tooth fairy put her prize in a special place and leave her a note to tell her where it was. (That was what we did last time.) So she went to bed and put her tooth under the pillow. We left a note and put her bouncy ball and blow pop (which she requested) in the special place (on Phud's bedside table.) So at 5 AM, Jaycie entered our room following the clues on her note, looking for her prize!!!!! I told her to go to bed and come back at 7 but she said she was too excited and couldn't sleep until she found it. So I let her continue... She was so excited about her ball and ran back upstairs and put her prize in the bed and supposedly went back to sleep. So once again, the tooth fairy's visit was a success.

If you look close you can see the permanent tooth coming in where she lost her first tooth.

Hawk

About a month ago Phud told me to run up stairs and give the girls a bath while he cut Aiden's hair. Well I did and when I finished Aiden ran into the room with a huge smile and sporting a huge mohawk. He was so excited. Every morning he would get up and point to his head and say "Hawk" because he wanted a mohawk. He just recently got it cut off after a month of having it and still asks sometimes for us to give him a hawk. (So we just put the hair gel in his hair and he thinks he has a hawk...) Here are some pictures of the sweet hawk!

Jaycie's first lost tooth!

Here are some pictures of Phud trying to pull the tooth a day or so before it actually came out. Notice Charis in the background. She just wanted to be in the picture! She actually told us that! In fact, in one picture, she stuck her head right in front of the camera!

October 21, 2009.....Jaycie lost her first baby tooth!!!

Well, after two days of pulling Jaycie's first tooth finally came out! So yes, we get to be the tooth fairy tonight!!!!! I am not sure who is more excited, us or Jaycie. All she wants from the tooth fairy is a blow pop! We put her in bed tonight and she naturally got out. Phud told her that if she got out of bed again he was going to pull her tooth. So of course, a few minutes later, she appeared around the corner and wanted him to pull it, again. So Phud was on the phone and just started kinda wiggling it. i walked down the stairs from putting Charis to bed and it came out in his hand. He didn't even realize that it came out and neither did Jaycie. She was so excited and then eagerly went to bed after a few pictures so that the tooth fairy could come!

Here is a funny conversation that Jaycie had with her daddy this week...

Jaycie - "Daddy, are you and mommy the tooth fairy?"

Phud- "Well yes baby, I guess we are."

Jaycie - "So Daddy, you are a fairy?"

Phud - "NO JAYCIE, DADDY IS NOT A FAIRY!"

Too funny!

Charis has no idea that Jaycie lost her tooth and thanks goodness! The other night when we first discovered the loose tooth and started talking about the tooth fairy, Charis would not go to sleep on her own. She wanted someone to stay in there with her because she was afraid the "fairy" was going to come in her room! She told Phud after he played her a song, "Daddy is the fairy going to come in my room? Please sleep with me..." She is so funny!

While I am on funny conversations here is one from Charis this week...

She walked into my room early one morning and said,

"Mommy, I'm Erica, Jaycie is Emily, Daddy is Mr. Mark, and you are Mrs. Lisa."

For those of you who don't know who these people are, they are a family that is in our core group at church. Charis really LOVES Erica!

So I asked who Aiden was and she very quickly said , "Lilly"....Lilly is their cute tiny puppy!!!! So Aiden is the puppy! :-)

Aiden's quotes for the week are...

No, sit, get up, move, oh boy and aw maaaaan

He holds his own well!

Exciting Day

Today was a pretty exciting day in two ways...

First, Jaycie played her first soccer game. Phud is coaching her team which is sponsored by Chick-fil-a. She was so excited. We were a little nervous that it was going to get canceled because of the weather but they were allowed to play in the light mist/rain... Jaycie did so well. There was one other girl there today and they held hands during the warm-up exercises. It was really cute. During the game part (they do 30 min. of exercise and skill learning then they play a game for 30 min.), Phud rotated them in the goalie position. I was not a big fan of Jaycie being the goalie especially when I saw the kids head her way kicking the ball fast!!!!! (Phud admitted to me after the game that he was VERY nervous and didn't like it at all!) But it all turned out well! Jaycie stopped the ball from going in and there were no injuries! Whew! She was so excited! A little boy on her team scored the only goal. So we won our first game! Go chick-fil-a! (Yes, Phud requested this team sponsor....hee hee!)

The second super exciting thing happened at bath time. The girls always potty before they get into the bath. Well for some reason Phud put Aiden on potty and he PEED IN THE POTTY!!!! We were so excited! We cheered a lot and he was so happy. He sits on the potty a lot voluntarily but never has he actually gone. So that was a very exciting thing for us.

Oh the little things. :-)

Oh yeah, and there are no pictures because I don't have a brain and forgot to take my camera to the soccer game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How could I forget!!!!! A mom there took pics and is supposed to send them to me. So hopefully I will have some to post soon. But hey, I remembered Charis' Dora chair and drinks and snacks!

I should be in bed, but I found my camera cord!

Finally, I have found my camera cord!!! So now I can get back to posting! (hopefully) So I think I will just start posting the newest pictures and backtrack from there.... So here are a few from September. I actually took some of these today and some Saturday.

This is just a random picture of the girls. They wore their boots in the front yard so the spiders didn't jump on their bare feet when they walk through it. We have spiders bad! Gross! Notice the shirts...yes we took part in the get a free chick-fil-a sandwich if you wear a team shirt day! 5 free chick-fil-a's!!!! Awesome!

Here is Aiden pumping iron with his daddy. Phud believes in training them early!!! hee hee!!

We finally got Aiden's bed from a friends house where we had it stored for the move. We left the rails so we had to just put it on the floor for now. He was so excited when he saw it. He loves getting in Charis' bed every night. So when we brought him in his room to see it he actually gasped and then said WOW! It was so precious!! His sisters were just as excited I think.

Aiden slept in his bad for nap time today. I of course had to sleep with him. Once he fell asleep I left. I heard him waking and watched through the cracked door. He rolled around for a few minutes and kicked the wall a few times and then sat up looking really confused and then got up and came to the door and opened it. It was too cute.