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Here's the post script to the last post...

This is Alix with both teeth missing... Spaghetti is all of a sudden WAY more fun to eat!

The first shall be last & the last shall...

Lose the second tooth first.

After waiting desperately for a month and a half, Alix has joined Erin in the elite club of "Those Who Have Lost Teeth". Funnily enough, Erin helped her along. Alix was holding a water bottle in her teeth and Erin jerked it out of her mouth. Crying and whining ensued, but the end result was TWO loose teeth. That night the first one came out...

And a few days later the second one also fell out. Erin was a bit perturbed that she's the reason Alix got treated by the Tooth Fairy twice.

It's all Fun and Games

Until someone loses an eye...

We had the best ski trip ever the other day. Brooke got carsick on the way up, and threw up all over the car, her coat, two pillow pets and her hair. I fell getting off the chairlift (which incidentally, I have never managed to get off without falling) and dislocated my shoulder. Halfway down the hill we got this radio call from Brooke - "Mom! Alix got stabbed in the eye with a ski pole and is bleeding all over!" Would have been bad enough if I were a fast skier and could get down the hill in a hurry. As it is, I'm not. We found Alix looking like this...

Brooke was pushing off with her ski pole and it slipped and got Alix right in the eye. It went all the way through her eyelid, and she had blood pooled in her actual eyeball, but the eye looked okay other than that.
Another inch over and we might have had a cyclops for a daughter.

And is it just me or does this picture of her three days later remind anyone else of a mugshot?

Pink eggs...

I am a true believer in any excuse to have some extra fun. Thus, all holidays are fair game for a party at our house. Valentine's Day. St. Patricks Day. Groundhog Day. Saturday....

Annual making of the puppy cookies was a little more time intensive this year with two classes to bake for.

And somehow I didn't take a picture of the final products... Shame on me! Bad mommy! (please, send me to bed early...) ;)

We had our 2nd annual Pink & Red dinner party. It was super fun. Everyone has to bring pink or red food and (duh) wear pink or red.

My favorite were the pink boiled eggs I made... We also had neon pink spaghetti, red meatball subs, pink pancakes, pink rice, pink breadsticks, meatloaf w/red bbq sauce, strawberries, roasted red potatoes...

We had 17 kids (and their families) over and we played Valentine's Pictionary and the kids got to do a little valentine crafting.

Notice the high percentage of girls? Weird huh? Those few boys are going to love it when that mass of femininity turns 16...

Blah...

I've got the blahs... and can't think of anything funny or sweet enough to blog about. So I'll share with you some of our bologna fashions...

As if bologna wasn't gross enough already...