poison control

Yes, I called it. I haven't had to for over a year, but tonight Amelia bit into one of those glow bracelets. We were sitting in the car while Ryan ran into the grocery store and I looked back and saw the crease of her mouth glowing along with her fingers. It didn't bother her right away, but then it must have gotten into her mouth. She cried pretty hard. The lady at poison control said that it probably burns like hot pepper or something but its not toxic or anything like that. phew! At the end of the call they always ask for your zip code, your name and the child's name. I wonder if they've logged all of the times I've called and are like, hmm, she's the one who sprayed ant spray on the baby bottles and her kid ate desitin. I can't remember the other reasons I've called, but they always make me feel better.

New Fence

My amazing husband suprised me and took the day off to install a fence piece on the side of our house. We've been wanting to put one there ever since we moved in, but haven't gotten around to it. What a suprise! It looks so nice and now we have privacy on the side of our house and I feel better about letting the kids play outside.

Chuck E. Cheese and Micah's Wish

Here are some pictures from Chuck E. Cheese's:

Micah and Garrett

Amelia and the infamous Bailey

Micah's cupcake "cake"

Here is proof that Micah wants to marry Bailey:

Time flies...

...when you're busy.

My lack of blogging was certainly not for lack of things to blog about. I think I wrote one in my head almost every day since my last blog. We've been incredibly busy with the start of school and the current birthday "season" as I'm calling it.


Micah lost his tooth. boo hoo. He must have swallowed it in the night because I searched high and low for it. In the morning I noticed it was gone. We looked all around for it and then I said, "I guess the tooth fairy must have gotten it before we even got to see it." Then Micah said, "Where's my tooth pillow? Maybe she left me something." I made eyes with Ryan and he quickly found the pillow while Micah was looking for it and grabbed a quarter off of Micah's dresser and put it in the pocket of the tooth pillow. Then Micah found it and was really excited. Its a good thing he doesn't know the going rate for teeth these days.
We had to take a picture of Amelia's teeth too.

Micah had his family birthday party at my parents' house. It was supposed to be at the park, but just as we were driving over there it started pouring. We had lots of fun with the cousins.

We got Micah a bike for his birthday.

Micah and Amelia started daycare at Riviera. Amelia loves going to "school." She is in the two-year old class and our neighbor is in her same class. Micah goes to the daycare most of the time, but has already had two days of pre-kindergarten. He likes it a lot. Since today was his birthday, he got to bring treats (he picked oreos), a special toy (his build-a-bear monkey), and got to put the number on the calendar and identify the weather.
Micah had his friend party at Chuck E. Cheese's on Sunday. We had a blast with about 20 friends and lots of pizza.
I started school (teaching) and I am loving my new schedule. I now have Wednesdays off and I think it's going to be a good balance. I love it, yet I still struggle with how to manage 30 first graders at a time.