Baby #2 losing teeth!

What a milestone! Noah lost his first baby tooth today while sailing on Lake Huron. Let's hope tooth fairy finds us tonight! 

loosing teeth

1st tooth

8-4-2021

Lukas lost his first tooth! It was wiggling for 2+ weeks and while at daycare, a friend accidentally hit his face and it came out! 

That same night, a Toothfairy showed up armed with a book about loosing a tooth, an electric toothbrush and a $1 bill, leaving lots of sparkle behind. 

Not sure how it all came down but a couple of weeks later, when we went to visit Močiutė, Lukas walks in, takes her phone and Google searches "Is a Toothfairy real', needing only a little help with spelling :)

2nd tooth

10-5-2021

This is a third tooth that started wiggling but came out second. This one was bothering Lukas for a while. He started asking if we could just pull it out with the door. So Derrick checked and pulled it out with his fingers. In fact this tooth was so loose no pulling was required, he literally just took it out of his mouth.

This time the tooth fairy left a dollar bill and a note- Lukas was not impressed.

3rd tooth

11-7-2021

This tooth has been wiggling for awhile now, even before the tooth that was lost second. Lukas was staying at Močiutė's and showed no interest for a tooth fairy this time. So we packed up the tooth in a plastic bag and stored it away. 

Update: In place of 2nd and 3rd teeth only one new tooth grew. The second tooth grew as molar in the back! 

4th tooth

5-21-2022

We were in Port Clinton and one thing led to another and Lukas' mouth may have bumped into a grocery shopping cart. Then a week later, while eating his hotdog at Costco, back in Columbus, it fell out! 

He spent that night at his Grandma's, so the Tooth fairy had a hard time finding him between the houses. Finally, a few days later, she left a note on his window asking him to leave the tooth under his pillow. She was not on her game that night yet again and left the whole $7 dollars under his pillow, though in the note she only mentioned the $2 🤦‍♀️ The suspicion whether the tooth fairy is real is at large and from now on, Lukas always uses air quotation marks when he says "tooth fairy". 

5th tooth

5-30-2022

Back in Port Clinton, while eating his breakfast, he lost another tooth! 

Noah (4yr 6 mo)

I like watching TV.

My favorite color is blue.

I like policemen (policemans) and doctors.

I like salad.

I have one brother, Lukas.

I like fireman Sam.

Ethiopian beef or Canadian steak?

Noah: I love Canadian steak!

Translation: he really enjoyed the beef dish at the Ethiopian restaurant this past weekend.

 

Pupa is making snow angels (Noah'isms)

 This morning, Pupa - our dog - goes out and starts rolling in the snow. 

Me: "What is Pupa doing there?"

Noah: "Maybe she is making a snow angel?"

sudoku

What a proud moment for us - Lukas (5,5) with some help from me, has solved his first sudoku! It took him less than 5 minutes to grasp the concept. Amazing!

The embarrassing part - and a lesson for me - was a reminder that I should never doubt my children and their abilities. Right before going to bed, he brings a game of sudoku to me saying that he wanted to play it. I explained to him that he may be too young to play this game and that it was a fairly complicated one. He persisted. Little did I know, after explaining it and showing how to figure out the placement of some of the numbers, he picked up and completed the rest!

shattering the sun

I take random notes all the time. To-do lists, reminder lists, boys' growth updates, something I hear on the radio or something I read. The problem with taking those notes is that I dont have an organized way to track, store or follow up on them. Then days, months and sometimes even years later, I find them. Not dated, no context, just a note about something. 

Today I came across the below. I have no idea when it was written or who came up with it, but I thought it was cute and wanted to somehow preserve it. 

On a hot sunny day, Lukas asked if he could go outside. 

"Ma, can I go outside?"

"Yes, but first, let's put some sunscreen on."

...

Lukas went oustide. He wished he could just kick the sun!

That night, when he went to bed, he did just that. As soon as he closed his eyes and slowly drifted into the kindgdom of dreams, he found himself in front of the sun. He kicked it once. He kicked it twice. He kicked and kicked until the sun shattered into a million fuzzy balls. Those balls surrounded all the planets and it was now sunny all the time.

lukasisms

Lukas tries on a new hoodie sweatshirt and after checking himself out in the mirror, exclaims: "my face reminds me of someone, I just cannot remember who."