Morning Conversation

Me: Serif, you need to get dressed because you're not allowed to wear pajamas at school unless it's pajama party day and today is not a party day. You need to see Ms. Sandra if you have a problem with that because she makes the rules. Serif: No, Ms. Shawny and Ms Rachel. Me: Yeah, I guess so for your class. Do you have a favorite? Serif: Pekka Rinne and Kaia. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

So Sad

Serif dropped a piece of cereal on the floor this morning and tapped his toe and said, "Helmut!" =( - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Today's Quote

"When Jesus watches over the whole world, he keeps monsters from coming to our house." - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

First Dentist Appointment

They have a train that runs along the ceiling throughout the facility. He thought that was pretty cool.


We went to Chick-fila for dinner the night before and the cow was his form of entertainment between the train laps.


We really should've gone before now but really didn't think he'd let anyone in his mouth. He proved us wrong. Cassie was so great with him and got him to do the entire cleaning . . . and floss! She gave him these "crazy cool" sunglasses to put on so the light wouldn't bother him. He loved them.


He did so great that they let him pick a prize from the drawer (he chose a dinosaur) and Dr. Buzz gave him a build-a-bear! Would you look at those nice shiny teeth! "Just like Pekka." he said.


He did have tears in his eyes. He wasn't watching where he was going as we were coming out the door to our car and he fell off the sidewalk onto the street. He was fine but I think it scared him and embarrassed him more than anything. Not to mention the stress of it all during the appointment. I got a close-up to show him his teeth but I think you see more tears than anything. Poor guy.


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New Room

We took the crib down over Christmas and moved Serifs big bed in to the nursery and turned the front room back in to a play room again. It's so nice having a true bedroom for him without all the distraction of toys everywhere!


When we moved the bed to its new location we had to face it the other direction. I was not liking the gap at the base of the ladder being in front instead of facing the wall so we had to get creative. (For those of you that may be unfamiliar, this bed flips upside down to create bunk beds.) we remembered that the mattress could roll up since its foam and we also needed a place for his slug night lights. So, I had Jeff go get a dowel rod and I sewed some curtains for the slug house! It's the little things that make me smile. Today, he wouldn't put his clothes on after a shower and he was being rather defiant so I put him in time-out and told him to get dressed. When I went back in to check on him he was completely under his bed in the slug house! It was hilarious! Jeff snapped some pictures and told him to get out of there and get dressed before he gets a splinter in his rascal. That did it! I'll have to add a photo here soon. I'm on my phone and don't have access to it right now.


His play room got reorganized too and he got some wall hooks for his guitar collection . . . "just like Justin and Julee's!" - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Random Texts

I was flipping through the stations and stopped on a country station with a John Anderson song on. He listened for a minute and grinned and said, "Do you know who that is?" I said, "Who?" He said, "That's Pekka."


"Hey! They pooped on the ceiling. A baby did that." (in reference to his classrooms bathroom ceiling.) I got him dressed in the "big" bathroom at school and as I was putting his shoes on him he said, "Mommy, I'm not going to cry when you leave." (First time he ever told me that. It was nice that he recognized it.) As we pass the arena, "I'm gonna eat a hamburger all. then I'm gonna eat a hotdog all. then I'm gonna eat popcorn all. I'm gonna eat it all." (in reference to the all-you-can-eat game we were going to that night. We went and he really did! He ate the whole night: all but 1 bite of a hotdog, a small bag of popcorn and a bag of peanuts!)


I took Nannie's gloves off of him last night and he cried for them to be put back on. Once he was in bed, he waited a few minutes then took the gloves off and laid them next to him and said to me, "I want to keep these right here.". He slept with those gloves all night. (It was so cold out and Serif lost one of his mittens in the arena. Annie gave him her gloves and scarf to wear to the car. He thought was pretty special. He was right. Thanks Nannie!) - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

First Ice Skating Lesson

Today started the first set of lessons for Serif (and Jeff). He did great! He would never let go of us prior to the lesson but he actually went out there on his own by the time lesson was half over! We were really proud of him. I told Serif that he was going to have to teach me. I think he liked that. We get a free hour of practice during the week and I plan to join them and learn along with them. I think Serif will be taking off and leaving me soon though. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone