Fairy Dust....

Fairy Dust....that is what our Tooth Fairy leaves on the money she gives for losing a tooth! One sparkly dollar bill and a tulle bag filled with 6 sparkly quarters.....

But let's back up a little bit.....I need to start back at the end of last school year....summer was coming and ALL I mean ALL of K's little friends (even ones a year or two younger than her) were losing their teeth...she was so bummed.  She thought she was THE ONLY ONE in her class and group of friends that hadn't lost a tooth.  So I took her and Avery to the Dentist the beginning of August for their 6 month cleaning and (wink, wink) the hygenist and I told Kyndall her bottom tooth felt a little loose....

Fast Forward a couple of weeks and it is the third day of school.  Kyndall comes home Wednesday afternoon and says her tooth feels a little more wiggly and it hurts to chew.  So I felt it (after washing my hands) and sure enough it was wiggly.  I thought it had a couple of days, but wanted Kyndall to have a cool toothfairy pillow to put her tooth in when she lost it.  So she picked out leopard print fabric and we got her ready for bed.  6:00 am the next morning she comes in our room with a huge smile on her face and her wiggly tooth (not so wiggly anymore) in her hand!!  She was SOOOOO excited!!!

Oh my goodness is this girl cute with a missing tooth!!!  I know it was probably a bit annoying to her new teacher, but I let her bring her tooth to school so she could show Mrs. Cummings and her class.....sorry Mrs. Cummings!!!  Anyway,  I love to sew, and can hardly find the time with all three munchkins, but I managed to make her a toothfairy pillow before school was over....I took a picture with a dollar bill in it just so you could see the tooth pocket...I gave it to Kyndall with no money in it (you know, that is the TF's job).

The back of it is leopard print too.....She was soooo excited to get it, she even wanted to go to bed early so the TF would come!  I found the cutest Tooth Fairy Certificate online and printed it off, grabbed some glue stick and glitter for the dollar bill, and made a small bag out of tulle and ribbon for the coins.

  Right before bed I snuck in her room and she had left this note for the toothfairy in her TF pillow:

Dear Tooth Fairy, can I (keep) my tooth?

How cute huh!  So I left the tooth, ewww, I know, but what can you do...she even remembered the question mark!!  So we have experienced our first toothfairy visit,  and now we have the cutest certificate where we can keep track of when she looses each tooth....

Today, I need to work on a teething necklace for Little Em because she just happens to be getting a tooth, ironic right??!!

First Grader: Kyndall Kelly

I love my sweet big girl first grader...and just wanted her day to start out perfect....so I decorated our dining table with a centerpiece and special plates for a special family breakfast:

 Her special request was waffles, and we all ate breakfast together and prayed for Kyndall to have an amazing day!

We put together a 1st day of First grade survival kit full of her teacher's favorite things, and a couple things Kyndall made (key chain and card)...and we packed our sweet 6 year old up to go:

We did the famous picture at the front door....

 Then, she and I headed off for school!  Jim stayed home with the 2 little ones so I could walk her into class and take a pic at her desk....

 Look at her take off!!! VERY opposite of last year where she was slow, steady and kind of sad...

This year, ALL SMILES!!!

I love this girl so much...Avery and I felt like it was a SUPER looooonnnngggg very slow day until she came home!!  She said that she had a great day and can't wait until tomorrow!!  Yay!!!

End of Summer....

Summer is a time to relax with Bits...

Make some fun crafts with your sister....

Go to the local Bread Company for lunch with friends...

Have your very first ever sleepover with a great friend, Ellie (she stayed at our house)

Go Bowling with our friend Gabe....

Start taking Gymnastics.....Avery on the beam:

And Kyndall practicing her handstands:

And as the summer comes to a close...we get ready for School to start again...1st grade for Kyndall...so she made a braided plastic backpack charm with cute beads on it! 

 

....And on Friday afternoon, Kyndall got to meet her 1st grade teacher, Mrs. Cummings!!  She was SOOOOO nice and Kyndall is MORE than excited to start her first day on Monday!!!  We even got to go visit her Kindergarten teacher, Miss Carboni, as well.  We will sure miss her, but I have been praying for Kyndall to get the perfect teacher next year and I just know Mrs. Cummings' class will be just right for her:).  She had 2 kids from her class last year in there and she already met a sweet girl who sits across from her named Jillian (cute name huh!). 

It is exciting and sad to see the summer come to an end...but I am ready for the cooler weather and Kyndall and Avery are ready for some fun and learning at school!   First day pictures coming soon!!!

 

3/4 of a Year Old

Emery is 9 months (and has been for 3 weeks now) and I want to update her stats!  She is 19 lbs, has had her first ear infection, is officially eating only formula and baby food, she started pulling up and standing on her own, she waves bye-bye when she feel like it, gives the cutest little fishy face kisses, gets excited to see her sisters, Gram and Bits Daddy and Mommy, She loves to crawl everywhere and has a cute little giggle (mostly Avery gets her to laugh), and loves to play patty-cake.  I am LOVING this stage, and she is a wonderful baby....here are some pics:

We've been a little crafty over here....

We are a little "craft" obsessed in this house.  I love to do anything crafty...sew, paint, origami, crochet, crafting with my Silhouette Cameo machine, even wood work...the list goes on and on and on.  Well, I am proud to say that 2 out of 3 of my girls are starting to really jump on the bandwagon with me!  I'll give Emery a couple more years. 

We started watching Craft Wars on TLC...Tuesday nights at 7:00p.m. central.  My girls and I LOVE the show...I mean LOVE it!  Kyndall would rather watch it than a Disney show or Nick Jr.  She is always telling me how she would have crafted the challenge.  She picks a contestant that she wants to win and cheers them on throughout the show...so cute:)  So I decided to pull out some craft supplies and challenge Avery and Kyndall to our own Craft War!!!

I let them use sharpies, scrapbook paper, gift wrapping paper, buttons, glue, washi tape, yarn and anything else they could think of to decorate a boring old kleenex box.  You should have seen their excitement!

And the finished products....

Avery's is on the left...she had more of a simple style...just gluing, painting and washi taping the box, while Kyndall wanted to make a platform for it....notice the heart glued to the scrapbook paper...and the box was glued down to the scrapbook paper mat...they both added actual tissue paper in their design as well...Avery's tissue was more of an accent while Kyndall's was a pocket holding buttons.

Both had a blast and we avoided the whole "winning" scenerio because we had to quickly clean that up and take off to Joann's because I had signed Kyndall up with her friend, Kate, for a yarn craft class.  They made Pom Pom caterpillars:

Kyndall said it was SO much fun:)  Meanwhile, Avery and Kate's little sister Sara Paige went with the babies and Jenny and me to Ikea to play and have lunch.  Avery and SP aren't quite old enough for craft classes yet...but the kids area at Ikea is super fun so they weren't disappointed.

Have I admitted my obsession with Big Brother?  I have one, really bad.  I watch the show and even do a little betting game with family and friends on who will win the 500,00 dollar prize in the end.  Well, I have a good friend, Amy, who is also a BB fan (BB is short for Big Brother if you are a fanatic like me, you know this already) so we decided that our 9 month olds needed a Big Brother onesie to wear during this season.  If you watch the show you know that the competitors have to win a Head of Household (HOH) competition to get special treatment and they are in control of the house for the week.  They sleep in a nice room, have a private bathroom, and nominate 2 other players to get kicked out of the house (only one player gets kicked out per week).  All that to say, that Amy and I decided sometimes 9 month olds can be a bit like the Head of Household in real life.  You jump when they cry, you schedule around their feeding  and nap times, and so sometimes it can feel like they are running the place.  I have this great Heat Transfer Vinyl that I cut shapes out of and iron on fabric....I cut out HOH for both babies and ironed them on some onesies.....

Taa Daa.....

Cute little BB fans right?  There is my recent crafty endeaver!  Check out Big Brother and Craft Wars....warning: you might get hooked! 

P.S.  Sorry for the run-on sentences....I have 3 little ones talking the whole time and my thoughts are sporadic and a little unorganized!

Summer fun....

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We had a playdate with my friend, Janette, and her 3 kiddos on Saturday....we attempted a cute craft while our 6, yes 6, kids played together.  They had a pretty good time, and I have known Janette since college, so it was so nice hanging out together!  Here are Rayne and Emery(with her big ole bow) checking each other out:)  

Paul, my brother in law, just got engaged to Lauren!!  We love her:)  She came over to hang out with my girls and me the other day...and we had so much fun!  She got a dose of the craziness of 3 kids though when Avery came down the stairs after giving herself  ANOTHER haircut ugh....She did this when she was 2 as well....Turns out she wanted "swooping" bangs like Lauren....Lauren told her to go to Bruno next time, not to do it herself...

We evened them out a bit...

Finally, I want to add a super cute pic of Kyndall....her new obsession is Groovy Girl Dolls.  She does their hair, saves her money for accessories, and cons me into making clothing for them.  Here is a pic of Kyndall "braiding" her doll's hair.  She also made the outfit herself (but you can't see it very well in the picture:)

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I checked the monitor this morning after hearing 2 voices and caught Avery in the crib playing with Emery......

Never gets boring around here!!!!

8 Months Old

I am a couple weeks late with this post, but guess who is 8 months old?  That is 2/3 a year old....ugh...time flies.  As hard as it is to experience time flying by so quickly, it is SO MUCH fun to watch Emery grow and change....

Some crazy things happened at 8 months:

* We are weaning her off of breastfeeding and found out she is allergic to milk based formula (horrible spots all over her sweet little body:(

*She likes rice cereal, peas, sweet potatoes and applesauce....not bananas

* She started officially crawling (see video below) right after turning 8 months 

*She has now discovered the stairs and is starting to pull herself up to her knees.

* She loves crawling after Mae, ADORES her sisters, and everytime she sees me she gets all excited and waves her little hands excitedly...then cries if I don't get her

*  She loves hanging out with her daddy  

*  She is picky who holds her...but she won't cry if it is family (mostly)

We all feel so blessed to have this sweet baby in our family!  What a fun group of girls we get to raise!!!