31 Day Blog Project!

So I watched Julie and Julia with Emily the other night, good movie. And I'm not exactly good about blogging every day, but I thought I would try to do it for a month straight. Should have picked February! Anyway, here is Day 1.

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Jack's had a loose tooth for the last week or so. We thought he might lose it in Vermont, which would have made things difficult on the Tooth Fairy (or easier, because we could have gone Old School? Hmm? Hmm?), but it hung in there until today. Yesterday I sent him to school with a little plastic tooth holder. Or rather, I gave it to him 5 minutes before we left for school, and he forgot it. But today he brought it, and when I picked him up I asked him if he lost his tooth, and both he and Mrs. Glockenberg said "Yes!"

Jack told me the story, but his phone message to Emily was even better. I will paraphrase: "Hi Mommy. I lost my tooth! Really exciting. I hope I get $3. ... Want me to tell you how it came out? Well, I was eating my apple. Of course. And I bit a seed. And then something was in my mouth, so I spit it out. And you know what it was? MY TOOTH! I know, very exciting. Well, goodbye."

Jack and I played football in the playroom this afternoon. Kate was drawing pictures, but at some point she decided to come over and climb into my lap. Literally climb; she walked up my leg (I play on my knees, otherwise I'm too tall to throw the football) and stood on my hip kind of, sitting on the inside of my elbow. Made continuing to play football difficult, but I managed, and Jack was able to avoid hitting her on his throws. She leaned forward and kissed my forehead. She does great forehead kisses, usually using her hands to hold my head still, then kissing the exact center of my forehead as if there's a target on it.

I read the Grimm's Fairy Tale version of "Red Riding Hood" to Jack. He claimed there was another version of the story where the wolf ate the woodsmen, too. I am not aware of that particular version of the story, but I guess anything is possible.