RIP Little Teeth

Kyle and I headed back to the dentist this morning, I was worried because Kyle has only had 8 oz of liquid since Monday. He sees the bottle and associates it with pain. I tried feeding him using a medicine dropper, but that was no good either. The dentist (who I love Boise moms - Dr. Dan Streeby) took an x-ray and suggested that we pull the last standing tooth. It will help Kyle heal faster and it was likely going to fall out anyway.

So they strapped the little guy in a papoose, shot him up with novocaine and extracted the last standing tooth. The staff was great and it was all done in 5 minutes (wow)! Now we have a little tooth for the Tooth Fairy to get tonight (we suspect the other one is somewhere in his intestine right now). I'm sure Alice will be much more excited about the Tooth Fairy's visit tonight, rather than Kyle.

We're off to Mexico tomorrow for a much needed vacation (sans kids), so thank you to my parents for watching a banged up Kyle!!!!!

Another One Bites The Dust

We had a our second trip to the ER last night, this time it was for Mr. Kyle. With his new found freedom of crawling, he decided it would be fun to crawl down our back stairs....head first. Well, he managed to completely knock out one of this 2 lower teeth, and the other is barely hanging on. After 4.5 hours at the ER, sedation, IVs and 1 stitch, we brought our little guy home.

We went to our dentist this morning and he said it's likely the other tooth will fall out too, so Kyle will be missing his 2 bottom teeth for the next 6 years. Poor Guy! He truly looks like a hockey player with his sporty helmet and bashed up mouth.

I will post photos soon. Miraciously, his lip and mouth don't look that bad (because the impact was solely on his 2 little teeth). Back to baby food we go.

Clowning Around

Alice was taking photos with my camera and this one is my favorite. Check out Kyle's samurai pony.


This one is super funny too!

3 dr apts, 3 antibiotics, 1 nebulizer, 2 sick kids within 10 days. So fun! Kyle had a little bout with RSV, but we're all better now.

Ummmm. If Alice ever tries to put makeup on you, RUN!

Alice (and mom) were intrigued with this gigantic Daikon radish Dad brought home...what the heck is he going to do with that?!?!?! Pork Meatball Banh Mi of course.

Dana and Frank watched the kids so Tom and I could go out for a little alone time - Thank you Grinnells! Frank was not too thrilled to learn that Alice was going to make him 'Queen' for the night.

Alice getting cuddles from Rowan

Watch out Rowan, here comes crazy Kyle!

Kyle's Mobile

Mr Kyle decided he wasn't going to sit around and watch life pass him by. Last week he decided it was time to become mobile (no, he did not get his first Blackberry) and started to crawl. He's officially into everything, and Alice doesn't quite understand why all her stuff is ending up in his hands/mouth. She's not that excited about his new found freedom to mess up her stuff, crawl onto her back, rip off her necklace, eat her Bendaroos, etc.

Snow Bunny

Tom took Alice out for her first ski adventure. They didn't go down any mountains (or hills for that matter), but she liked it and wants to go again. Awesome...now we sign up for ski lessons!

Party! Party! Party!

Today we had Alice's birthday party will all her buddies. We headed to Pojos, which is basically a indoor games arena (and is pretty white trash). I appreciate all you parents that brought the kiddos for the fun and festivities, everyone had a great time. Alice was very happy to have her buddies there to play with and says 'thank you' for all her super fun presents! You are all so generous!!!


Decorating Alice's cake before the party


Keaton navigating the truck



Miss Gabby being coy

In control on the bumper cars

The men hanging out on the carousel....I love the 'manly' men hanging out on this girly ride.

Miss Paigey going round & round

Ski Balls for the ladies - Nicole, Bella, Lilly and Kammi....and Max is supervising.

Go Duncan...He later won 124 tickets on the submarine game!

One big blow for all three candles

Is that lipstick or frosting on Keaton? You never know since the poor dude is surrounded by all the lovely ladies!

Weeeee, loving the motorcycle

Alice having a Flinstone moment with Carmal

Kyle was all tuckered out from the party!

I told you Pojos was WT....look at what was in the bed of a truck we parked next too. Nasty & Creepy!

Sibling love!

Alice Is THREE!

Alice turned three today, incredible!!!! I can't believe our little baby is a big girl now. We had a busy day of baking treats, eating sushi, watching 101 Dalmatians, opening presents, eating cupcakes & throwing a 'three year old tantrum'. For all you moms out there that warned me 'the three's' are harder than 'the two's', I'm starting to understand. So fun!

Eating Sushi - Birthday Dinner of Choice

Apron from Nanny & PaPa

New Princess Nightgown from GiGi Alice

Very excited about her Royal Pots & Pans...she screamed 'Just like Anna's!' (who got a similar gift at Christmas).

Kyle looking on...he is only content when he is standing up these days.

Her new Bear from Aunt Erin & Uncle Mark (who is actually a dog, but she refuses to see that - too much like her father?). She has named her bear 'Kyle'.

Miss Alice got a digital camera and LOVES it! On the box it states: Made to be dropped and dropped and dropped again! I'm sure we'll put that statement to the test.

Say Cheese! Here are a few photos taken by our new Annie Leibovitz. Since our 'Artist' is currently sleeping I will take the liberty of naming these photos (since I am her art rep):

Conception - First Photo

My Hero's

Rounder - Alice is making sure the helmet is working

It's All in the Details (she likes to get close to her subjects)

Blue

Make a Wish