Haircutting

Well…it happened.  I left a pair of scissors on the kitchen table just long enough to go put Campbell down for a nap.  I came back to see hair all over my kitchen.  Trigger had CHOPPED his hair IN THE FRONT.  I started frantically texting Angie pictures to see if she thought it could be fixed.  Thankfully, she got us in the next day and did an awesome job of hiding it.  You still can tell but it is better than it couldve been.  Look how pitiful Campbell looks.  We LOVE his hair long…however, it had gotten a little out of control here.  And what is a post without some pictures of my little girl. 

Thanksgiving

For some reason, I don’t feel like I got many pictures at Thanksgiving.  Sometimes I get a little overwhelmed and forget to take pictures.  We had Thanksgiving with Matts family AND at my mamaws house.  We always enjoy family time.  I only have pictures from Mamaws house so I will share those…it is always quite chaotic because there are so many YOUNG children.  But it’s fun and my children love playing with their cousins.

Abigail (shes 2 months younger than Larkin), Larkin, and Jake (4 months younger)Some of the kids eatingLarkin and PoppyThis is a picture we take every year.  Trigger and Josiah with Papaw’s hats on.  The kids LOVE to wear papaw’s hats…I think it is so special.  Mamaw has kept them hung in the hallway just like they have been since I was little.  Campbell, Trigger and JosiahCampbell and ReidThe whole familyMy family of FIVE…Larkin is obsessed with water bottles. 

Thanksgiving Program

Trigger had a Thanksgiving program at school (Trinity preschool).  The three and four year olds sing several songs.  The three year olds are indians and the fours are pilgrims.  I remember so clearly Trigger’s performance last year.  It was his first time to perform.  He was scared to death.  He refused to let Mrs. Lisa paint his face like all of the other Indians and he stood up there and picked his nose and stuck out his tongue….he was still in speech and OT at that point and we were just so proud that he stayed up there without a huge meltdown.  My how much difference a year makes.  Trigger got up there and was still a little shy and I still saw his nervous tongue come out some but for the most part, HE SANG!!!  This is such a huge thing…such a huge blessing.  A year later and we no longer need speech…we no longer need OT…Soooo thankful!!!!!!

Miss Priss got to watch and she did good…the puffs did have to come out towards the end! ;)

Trigger walking in.  Sam and Trigger singing.Trigger really didn’t want to stop to take a picture..he was hungry!Daddy and his girl!Sweet kisses!!!!Love this boy!Miss Rebecca and Catherine with me and Trigger.  Trigger and Catherine will spend the rest of their lives together at CC so they have no choice but to love each other.  Grammy and Papaw came to see TriggerAnd so did Poppy and Zizzy!

Wow!  Trigger has no idea how blessed he is to have so many people that love him enough to come see him sing.

Tooth Fairy

Yep, you read that right!  The tooth fairy got to visit our house on December 21, 2012!!!!  My big boy lost his first tooth.  We found out at our last dentist visit in October that his two bottom were loose.  Dr. Paige said it was early so she did an xray to see if there had been some trauma to those teeth…I have to be honest, I would NOT at all be surprised if there had been trauma…There are constant injuries around here.  However, there was NO trauma and his adult teeth were right there…just pushing out those baby teeth.  I had gotten to where I would feel of them every few days to see if they were getting really loose…in fact, I had just felt them at lunch to see how loose they were because I was giving him an apple and didn’t want him to loose it in the apple.  The tooth didn’t feel loose enough AT ALL…not nearly ready to come out….and I know!  I pulled quite a few teeth when I taught kindergarten.  Anyway, apparently the apple loosened it up because….that night I was feeding larkin and trying to put her down for the night and I get a text that said “t just lost his tooth”.  I was freaking out…I had a million questions…how did it happen? did it bleed?  is he excited?  did you make a big deal of it? 

He knew it was going to come out at some point but we really hadn’t talked at great length about it because I thought we still had time.  I had no plan for what the tooth fairy was going to do….AHHHHHH…NO PLAN! 

I rushed Larkin along and the boys were already reading books with Matt…and I, like the neurotic mom that I am, came bursting through the door clapping and all but yelling…..straight up giddy.  Matt kept giving me the eye like settle down, its bedtime.  That was my fear…men just don’t make a big deal about things like this.  I let trigger help me decide what we would do with his tooth.  He decided that he wanted to put it in the tooth fairy pillow.  Now, remember that I was not prepared so I had found several pillows on etsy that I was trying to decide between to order for him.  Well, that didn’t happen.  Thankfully, I have this pillow that was mine.  I think my mom or grandmother made it.  VERY girly but oh well.  Do you see the rag on his nightstand?  His tooth came out while he was brushing his teeth…matt said that we were very lucky that he caught it before it went down the drain.  The rag was to stop the bleeding.  He said he explained it again to trigger about how our baby teeth fall out, etc.  He then said “and all of our teeth will fall out”…to which trigger grabbed his mouth in shock and said “right now”.  BLESS HIS HEART, he thought all of his teeth were about to come out at that moment!  That is why mommas handle this sort of thing.  He looks WAY too old with that tooth gone.  SOOOOO SAD!The tooth fairy did come.  She left Trigger a note (which I have no clue what it said) and some money (again, no clue how much…I had planned on doing gold dollar coins but I didn’t find enough around the house).  Oh the funny part is that I got most of his tooth fairy coins out of his own piggy bank. LOL…glad he doesn’t know how to count his money.  AND the tooth fair left some of her magic dust (ie. glitter) all over they place.  AND. the tooth fairy had to sew up the pillow because the pocket had ripped.  MAN, the tooth fairy was tired that night. 

I still can’t believe that my baby has a missing tooth…and the other one should be coming out any day now.

Camping

Liz had this brilliant idea that she and the boys should camp out one Friday night….by “camping out”, I mean sleeping in a tent in our den.  THAT is how we camp out!  ;)  Matt was out of town and my dad was at the camp so it was the perfect opportunity.

First things first…Getting the fire started which means gathering up the wood. Waiting for the fire to get good and hotRoasting hot dogsAND, the best part…at least to me….ROASTING MARSHMALLOWS for smores!  However, theirs had no chocolate.  Poor boys.  Ha!And, then it was time for bed.  Trigger went straight to sleep…he was exhausted.  Campbell tried so hard but just could go to sleep.  He likes to be in the dark, by himself.  So I rescued him from the tent and put him in his bed.  Liz, poor thing, slept all night in the tent with Trigger.  I tried to get her to bail and come sleep with me but she wouldn’t.  Don’t worry…she had it nice and plush in the tent…complete with a feather down topper, tempurpedic topper, and several plush blankets.  I think it was actually rather comfy in there!

Zizzy is such a fun grandmother.  Our children are very blessed. 

Photo attempts

While Matt was gone in November, we had to get some pictures of Larkin for baby dedication.  They needed three pictures…one of which would be in the program and paper.  I take millions of pictures of Larkin but I just couldn’t find anything that would work…most of her pictures, she was wearing something holiday related and I didn’t want that.  Liz and I attempted to take her one morning to have her picture taken.  She acted as if we had shot her arm off…PITIFUL!!!  I tried later at our house, and got a lot better results.  Still not professional or anything but good enough for me!

That white dress was the dress that she wore for baby dedication.  It has smocked pearls on it and I think it is so sweet!