Lost Tooth

Jack came home from school yesterday so excited that his tooth was loose. Dad got the duty of pulling out the tooth. I don't know why but the whole pulling out a tooth is just too icky for me. I can sit through the kids with shots, clean up messes, put band aids on their boo boos, take them to the ER when blood is gushing out of their heads but not teeth. Dan was able to get the tooth out and Jack was happy! He had to run to his friends house to show him. I will put a picture on later when Dan comes home. I am scared about uploading photos because I am sure I will delete something I am not supposed to. I guess since Jack is now losing teeth that he isn't my baby anymore. It feels almost surreal that I have little boy that is 7 and will shortly be 8. Bizarre. I guess that means I am getting older which I don't like to think about. Time goes by way too fast.

Pumpkins in August?

My husband swears that he planted them when he was supposed to but our pumpkins are ripe now. If he didn't pick them they would go rotten. I was thinking a few pumpkins. He went over to our garden space and came home with this:

Think you are seeing double? Nope, 11 pumpkins.

I really am thankful for the garden and the food I get from it but what am I supposed to do with this many pumpkins? I am going to can them so that I can use them throughout the year but do you know how many pies this will make? I am thinking at least a zillion and one. Dan also said that since these ones were picked that the others still on the vines would be able to ripen. Again I am thinking a few so I hesitate for a second and ask. 20 is the answer. You heard me, 20 more pumpkins. Please tell me these will not ripen until October. Hopefully is his answer. I am praying to the almighty Mother Nature that I won't have 20 more pumpkins in a month. They need to wait just 2 more months. I also have no idea why he planted so many. We planted one vine last year and somebody stole all of our pumpkins so maybe he was thinking that if some get stolen we will still have a million for the kids to choose from. In theory a great plan, in reality a zillion and one pumpkin pies.

Had to throw in the picture of Katy. She is obsessed with hats lately.

Kid to English Dictionary

You know how your kids have words that would make a person scratch their head and wonder what they are talking about? One of my greatest joys in life is to send my kids with someone with no knowledge of what they are saying. I have said that I need to make a dictionary so that people know what they mean. Here are some of my favorites that my kids use.

• dog soda: mug rootbeer
• ear flossers: q-tips
• speed on you: go faster than you
• bemple song: "I love to see the Temple" song
• Jos-I-you: Josh where are you
• Mightning: Lightning
• elmo sit: This one Katy kept saying and at first I thought she was saying animal and then a naughty word. She really was saying Elmo sit. We have a stroller with Sesame Characters on it. She calls chairs sit. So Elmo sit. Makes perfect sense.