Lost Teeth...

…left and right at this house!  At the end of September Isaac had a tooth that was hanging on by a thread. He went to the school's resident "dentist" Miss M. to pull it out, and she proceeded to pull out a different tooth. He was pretty excited because she gave him a little tooth holder, a certificate, and a package of Smarties.

The next morning (October 1) Caleb woke up and his tooth had fallen out during the night; thankfully, he didn't swallow it. 

His note to the tooth fairy says, "Hi, tooth fairy, this is my first tooth. Love, Caleb. I will see you tonight." You can see his letters and the note a little better in the picture below. (Double-click on the picture to make it bigger so you can see it even more clearly.)

Within two weeks Isaac's top tooth that had been really loose originally was also pulled out by Miss M (on October 14). 

We were a little bit creeped out by his weird front top tooth that centered itself in the gap. Fortunately, that one came out within three days--also pulled by the wonderfully talented Miss M.

No top teeth--I lisp now!

To celebrate we went to Coldstone for ice cream.

The second time was a freebie since Isaac won the school's Box Tops monthly drawing and got to choose a gift card to Coldstone.  Gotta love gift cards and the joy of trimming lots of Box Tops! (Thanks to those who contributed Box Tops so we could go out for ice cream. ;-)

Final Days of Summer

We spent a lot of time during August in our classrooms preparing for the new school year. To break up the monotony of the work (for all of us but especially the boys), Paul and I decided to plan a few fun activities as a surprise for the boys before school started.

Their first surprise was an afternoon at the movies. We watched Planes and thoroughly enjoyed it.

We took in one more Padres game before the end of summer.  The game did not end well, but we had a wonderful time.

Through the Jr. Padres program the boys had free tickets. They also got a free bag and got a chance to throw a few balls in the game zone.

The clown noses in the boys' bags

We took the boys for breakfast at Mama Kat's, our favorite breakfast place.

We did a lot of baking and cooking together. The boys got a Star Wars cookbook from the library so we made a few of the recipes from it including Han Burgers, Jedi Juice Bars, Skywalker Smoothies, and our version of Wookie Cookies.

Enjoying Skywalker Smoothies

And on our final Friday of summer we had one last super slumber movie party complete with dinner, chocolate popcorn and a movie in the living room.

It was such a wonderful and relaxed summer. Now that we are two months into the school year, I look back at these pictures with fondness (and a little bit of wistfulness to be back on vacation ;-).  Things are a little busier now which explains why this post sat in my drafts folder since September 3!