Thursday, February 28, 2008

Dance Camp

Dance camp was a success. Audrey really enjoyed it. Mark and I really enjoyed her performance. She hammed it up as usual.
Here is the beginning of her performance.
Here is the end can you finder her. She is striking one of her Americas Next Top Model poses.

Her friend Emma. They weren't in the same group because Emma is a year older. (actually 6 months but that does put her a grade higher than Audrey).

Emma, Audrey, Hannah and Sarah

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Almost back to normal

Mark came home and is sick. He has been working out of town. But of course the kids are going strong with activities. They had a swim meet this morning. I, of course, forgot my camera. But the did well. Will shaved off 3 seconds from his freestyle and 2 off his backstroke. He did not DQ on breaststroke so that is good. Audrey shaved 2 seconds off her freestyle and her backstroke I am not sure. If she would actually use both her arms she would go faster. After the meet we dropped Will off to spend the night with his friend Cole. Came home got Audrey ready for dance camp. I have to go back at 3:30 to watch her perform. I will bring my camera so I can share photos with you.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

FLU

Ok, I have had the flu again. I have been in bed for 5 days with fever and other aches and pains. My fever finally broke last night and trying to keep it from coming back. I can't really say what has been going on around here because I do not know. My mother came over yesterday so Mark could go out of town and she made me some yummy homemade chicken soup. The kids come up every now an then just to look at me. I am feeling better so I will probably take over my mommy duties tomorrow. I want to go work out but I will resist (especially since going down the stairs takes all my energy).

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Tooth fairy for Audrey

This past weekend we were at an hockey game and Audrey was cheering when I noticed that her bottom big teeth had come in. The problem is she never lost her baby teeth. Well I knew that I was going to have to call the dentist and get the baby teeth pulled.

I made the appointment and told Audrey that she was going to have her baby teeth pulled. She said she wanted pictures with her baby teeth in. So I was happy to.


And of course Audrey was already and posing. I think I got like 7 pictures of her posing. The next morning we got up took Will to school. We got to the dentist at 9:30 and they did not take us back until 11:00. I was not very happy. When we got back the put tooth gel on her gums to deaden the area they would be giving her the shots. When they did this to Will they put a lot on, but for Audrey they didn't. Then they decided to give her the shots. When she began to cry I thought it was because she saw the big needle but then I realized that it was hurting her. I started to cry a little and i held her hands. After 4 shots they let her sit and let her mouth go numb. Once it was all numb the dentist came over and wiggled her teeth out. She did not feel it at all. I asked her if she still wanted to be a dentist now and she said yes. She said she wants to give people shots. she was unable to eat anything hard, crunchy, spicy, salty all day. So we went to the store and got ice cream. We already had yogurt at the house and she wanted spaghetti maranera for dinner.

So here is her first picture without those two teeth. As you can see she had just got finished eating chocolate ice cream. I even made her wash her face. There was just to much ice cream though. She is still beautiful.


Here are her two teeth, roots and everything. They are so tiny.



I put them next to this dime just so you could see how little.

They gave Audrey this treasure box to put her teeth in so the tooth fairy could find them easier under her pillow.


When I got home from my book club meeting I realized Audrey's teeth were in the truck. So I came in and woke her up so she could put them under her pillow. Of course she saw the camera and was ready for the photo. She is always photo ready.

She shoved it under her pillow and fell right to sleep. I don't think she even realized I was in there.

I then went into Will's room and took his picture while he slept.
The next morning Audrey woke up with ten dollars from the tooth fairy. This is how it was broken down 2 for each tooth, 2 for each root and 2 for having the dentist pulling them. So now she is ready to lose more teeth. I asked her if she was going to give the money for the toy I bought her for having her teeth pulled and she thought about it and said "NO" I told her I was just kidding that she was a brave girl and deserved it.








Will & Drake

Will and our neighbor Drake decided to do some stunts or at least appear to do some.
Aren't they cool!

Reba & Kelly, 2 voices, 2 worlds

Santa Claus brought Audrey and the family tickets to the Kelly Clarkson, Reba Mcyntyre (not sure how to spell that) concert. So the night came and we got ready for the event. It started at 8pm, which is late for Audrey but she was up for it.

I was getting my camera ready when I see her putting her lipgloss on. So of course, I get the shot.
Now she is ready for the show. Kelly Clarkson is her favorite singer. She has both of her cd's and knows all of her songs. Of course she does not know what the lyrics mean.

Will is all ready as well looking mighty handsome. He also looks tired. He fell asleep on the way there.


Will decided to take a picture of Audrey and I. I am tired too also having a terrible hair day. It had been raining all day. All I wanted to do was sleep.
We got to the concert late because of parade traffic. There was a comic first so we didn't miss anything. Reba and Kelly came out at 9 o'clock. It was so loud. Even Mark said it was loud and for him to say it is loud you know it was loud. Anyway about 10 Audrey gets in my lap and falls asleep. Before then she was up singing and dancing. But she just fell asleep. Her little body could not take it anymore. It was a good show. But the do need a new sound man. Kelly's mic needed to be turned up and her drummers needed to be turned down.



Friday, February 1, 2008

Amazing

About 10 years from March or April I had reconsturctive jaw surgery. Afterwards I could not feel my chin. There is a metal plate in it with several screws. I could feel the skin in some places and others nothing. I couldn't feel any deeper than that. The other day I worked out and went outside, got in my car. I felt pain coming from my chin. I touched it and it was deep pain. Then I rubbed my tongue against the scars in my mouth and felt that as well. I could not believe it took that many years for my nerves to get back together but they are. The only problem now is it hurts. After the surgery I didn't really have any pain at all. So now I am having some almost 10 years later.