Foster Family: December 2011

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Finishing up Fall

The week before Halloween, our cousins came for a visit and we made our annual visit to the Pumpkin Walk.

We love looking at the pumpkin scenes and the kids love the picture cutouts.

Ended the evening with Pumpkin face pizza.

Kids all ready for the ward Halloween party. (Bailey is in her cooler version of her butterfly costume.)

On Halloween day our cousins came back up for a day of fun and evening trick-or-treating. (My sister makes those amazing costumes!)

Rachel's school Halloween costume parade.

Making oreo spiders.

Getting ready for an evening of trick of treating.

Miss Rachel lost her very first tooth! It came out on 11-11-11.The two bottom front teeth were both loose - one being quite a bit looser than the other. She lost the less loose of the two first.

The really great part; the part that is fits our Rachel's personality to a tee is that she knocked it out. Truly, she was screwing around and jumping around the living room. When I was a kid my mom called it "rough housing." :) She was bouncing on the couch with the little nubby part of a balloon in her mouth. She told me later that she was biting that one part and batting the inflated part back and forth with her fists. I'm guessing that the nubby thing caught on her tooth and with one last, strong punch the balloon went flying and yanked her tooth out in the process. She ran into the bathroom to grab a tissue because she could feel something "weird." When she came back into the room she finally felt the little spot with her tongue. I saw it all happen in her very expressive facial expressions. She felt the hole and started to panic. Both of us, like slow-motion turned at the same time and saw a tiny white tooth lying on the couch cushion. I saw pure terror in her eyes, so I jumped up and hugged her cheering about how she lost her first tooth. It only took a second until she was happy about it, too.

Here she is with the offending balloon and her tooth.

She was SO excited to put it under her pillow, but she was also really hoping to take it to school and show her class. Apparently another child in her class had done that. When she realized that it meant prolonging the Tooth Fairy's visit a whole 3 days, she decided to go ahead and put it under her pillow and bag the whole school thing.

The next morning she was thrilled to find a little glitter trail on her bed and a shiny gold dollar under her pillow. Hooray for our girl and the cute window in her teeth!

A Little Bit of Fall

This time I'm not going to even ask you to imagine that it's still months prior. I'm just behind. So, here's an attempt to fill you in on the happenings of Fall.

After Rachel got a clean bill of health, we had her birthday party with her friends. A few of her buddies weren't able to come, but we had some awesome little friends come and had a super time. This year she chose to have a Luau birthday party. They started with an outdoor treasure hunt - which we squeezed in between little rain storms.

The kids found their treasure -- leis, hair flowers, and treats. They played Luau themed games (some of them were a little bit of a stretch, but really, it isn't too hard to impress 5 and 6 year olds...), and ate rainbow cupcakes.

It was a fun party. Rachel has some very sweet little friends and she loves to be with them. Happy 6th Birthday, Rachey!

Another exciting thing that happened right after turning the ripe old age of six, was staring dance lessons. Rach was a little nervous, but decided she loved it the first day.

September also included a trip to the Park/Zoo with our cub scouts. They are a wild, squirrely bunch, but they're great! My kids love it when they get to join in on the fun.