Tale of a Tooth…

Tell me this isn’t happening. On Friday afternoon when I picked J up, she ran straight to me to tell me she had a loose tooth. I scooped her up in my lap, hugged her, and rocked her back and forth telling her I didn’t know if I was ready for her to lose her baby teeth yet. Later that day, I overheard her tell someone that her tooth was loose, but that she wasn’t sure if she was ready for it to come out or not. :)

I sent my sister a text to tell her, and her initial response was my exact thought at that moment.

“How exciting…and a little sad.”

Then she added that Rhett would be mad.

We left for Mo and Grandad’s that same evening. She wiggled it most of the way. By that night and all day Saturday it was hanging by a thread. I predicted she would lose it in her sleep. When she woke up she came and got in the bed with Mario and me. As she laid there, she was wiggling it, and it came all the way out! Mo found an empty film canister for us to store it in until bedtime.

I am out of town with Mario tonight, but as far as I know, the tooth fairy is lined up for a visit. When we left this afternoon I hugged her and said, “Try not to lose any more teeth before I get back, girl!” She smiled so sweetly and said, “I will, but if I do, it won’t be my fault…it will be the teeth’s fault.”

Have I mentioned that I love this girl???

Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Words Anyway…

No time to write, but I wanted to get these posted!

 

 

Allium giganteum (Giant Onion)

I know it doesn’t make for the most exciting blog topic, but I am sort of excited that I grew these things by complete accident. As a matter of fact, I didn’t even know what they were until my ninth grade neighbor walked by my flower bed and commented on my huge onions.

“Ummm…thank you! I’ve been working really hard to keep those up.”

Not really.

I asked him if he was sure it was an onion. He snapped the leaves and smelled of them. “Definitely an onion,” he said. Any of you experts out there feel free to speak up if you agree or disagree that this is in fact an onion.

Then he asked me if he could pull them up and take them home to show his mom and sister. He asked how I grew them so big. I just watered it like crazy. Piece of cake.

Why can’t keeping the real plants up around this place be that easy?

Just Having Fun. My Kids. Me. And My Camera.

  

        

Growing Up and Graduating…

Major milestone in the Thomas household this past month—we have a graduate on our hands!  Can’t believe how the time has flown by since I posted this as I reacted like a typical overwhelmed and emotional mother dropping her child off at school for the first time. 

When asked if she was excited about being an official kindergartener she said she was “excited…but a little nervous.”

Followed by tears because she wanted the same teachers and classmates…like forever. 

I tried to explain to her that a few of the kids might be going to school with her next year, but for the most part they would be going different places and each year she would have new teachers.  The first picture makes me smile though, because this is a friend for life, I believe!

 

1. Do these look like future valedictorians or what?

2. Are these little graduation caps on preschoolers not the cutest stinkin’ things?!

 

…Giggling because every time they would turn around, Jeryn would try to pull their tassels!

A proud mama!

 

With “NeNe”…she did a great job in helping to prepare her for pre-k and has been with her since J was only 6 weeks old.

Moments before going on stage to receive certificate…

With Miss Kathy(left) and Miss Lisa (right).  Thank you for being such fabulous teachers!  We will always remember you both!

She did extremely well on her skills checklists (they did them in December and again this spring).  I want to share what her teacher wrote about her back in December so that I will always remember it!  (I will add the most recent one later, but right now I’m not sure where it is?? and I had this one handy:

Jaiden is a sweet & smart girl who really loves school and is always eager to learn something new! She works well in large & small group activities and gets along well with others! She is very respectful &helpful in class and a great joy to me! – Miss Lisa

And a GREAT joy to us!

48 Days Later...

So it's been a good month and a half since I've posted...I don't even know where to begin because so much has happened that I would never remember it all. I suppose I'll hit the highlights and hope to be better in the future at documenting the things I wish to remember. Well, nothing says, "I'm a big boy," like the picture below...WITH NO PACIFER! :) This is old news at our house, but still worth noting. I don't remember the day, but is was in January...suffered from the binky blues for a few, but for the most part got over it quickly. (With or without the help of a book mom sent me, Pacifiers are Not Forever.) He may be 22 months old, but the boy wasn't born yesterday. He LOVES for you to read books to him--so I read it to him once, and after that I'd hold it up and ask to read and he would run the other direction...clenching paci for dear life. Lucky for us, Mario won the Battle of the Binky. If it were left up to me, he'd probably be driving to pick up his first date with it...moving on...

Does it get any sweeter than these two??

Jaiden turned five this month. FIVE. I'd better not get started on this one...been a little emotional today in the first place.

Here are a few more pictures of the two. They are crazy about each other!

Obviously wearing his big sis's shoes :)

My favorite time of the day...smellin' good from their baths, teeth brushed, and ready to snuggle up to momma for bedtime!

Other highlights of the past 45-60 days included me turning 27...MARIO PASSING THE SERIES 6 EXAM!!!!, AND WELCOMING MY NEW NEPHEW CROSBY GRANT INTO THE WORLD! Aside from that, we have just been busy busy BUSY. I am hoping to get back into the swing of things in the blog world and catch up on everyone's reads...Sorry for my lack reading and commenting!

And lastly, you may have noticed the new song I added. I heard this for the first time today, (maybe you've already heard it before??) but I encourage you to listen to the words. Our message today was about whole-hearted worship and how easy it is to forget that worship is not just about singing at your church, but an attitude and a way of life--having a heart for God in everything that you do. The words I kept remembering were:

Take a break from all the plans that you have made

and sit at home alone and wait for God to whisper,

Beg him please to open up his mouth and speak

and pray for real upon your knees until they blister.

Shine the light on every corner of your life

until the pride and lust and lies are in the open,

Then read the word and put to test the things you've heard

until your heart and soul are stirred and rocked and broken....

This is so close to where I am right now--busy making plans, but needing to hear from God. We are at a point of making some major decisions as a family that concern our future and I am scared outta my shorts! I have a tendancy to think things through until I'm sick at my stomach which is what I have done for the last three months! ha! What's amazing though is God's timing and the study we are wrapping up with Beth Moore on the book of Esther. (Unbelievable if you haven't had the chance to do it! And I'm not even caught up on the homework yet!) I'm so thankful for the study that has put a lot of emphasis on our own personal destinies and how God is at work in our lives. All that to say that it was a great reminder that I should be worrying less and blistering my knees more.

Have a great week!

Life is Grand!

My sweet friend, Erica, who is the author of Morris Family Blog just gave me this award! The rule is to list 5 things that make my life grand, so here goes:

1) That I know Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. I can't tell you how many times a day that I think, what if I had not had the privilege of being told about the grace and mercy that He has for me? I can't help but wonder how different my life might be if I had not trusted Him with it so many years ago.

2) That I have a husband that loves the Lord as much as I do. I am so thankful to have someone to grow in Christ with. If you haven't noticed, it's a pretty nasty world out there, but I'm so blessed to have a husband that loves me for who I am in Christ, and is not influenced by what the world says I should be.

3) My babies. I love them more than life. Not a day passes that I do not snuggle up to them that night and just kiss their cheeks over and over again and tell them how special that are to us. They bring so much joy to life, and I can't bear the thought of them growing up so fast!

4) Living in America. While we hear over and over again about how bad the economy is and what uncertain times these are, I still feel so blessed to be Born in the USA! I can openly worship God my maker, I can make an honest living in the career I choose, and I can walk outside my house without being fearful of being in harm's way.

5) Spring is approaching!!! I love certain things about all seasons, but oh how I love the springtime!!!! We have had some beautiful warm days here this past Saturday and Sunday and it just adds an extra bounce in my step!

Now, I pass this on to Leigh Ann, Heather (because I know you love lists, girl!) and Shannon!

Have a great week!