SHE DID IT!!!!

Fresh Choice tonight people,

Lulu got her FIRST Swim Class ribbon!!!

She worked on it for over 2 months.

One week in Tucson in the pool and et voila!!!

Tucson vacation post to follow soon ...

Monsters vs Earthquakes

14:0 for the MONSTERS!!!

#10 (aka L) scored 5 out of the 14 goals. 

We found the shirt at H&M. It says Monsters Unite! How perfect is that?!

Great Game Monsters!

You ROCK!!!!

{this moment}

Found this on my back door just now.

L must have taped it there on Will's b-day.

So cute!!!

Translation:

Happy Birthday Willie

Yay it is Willie's Birthday today.

From Lillie

I LOVE my girls!!!

OK guys, 5 minutes, in and out! Capito?

That WAS the plan.

The Ls and I took a trip to Target (again, this time to return/exchange the lounge wear :).
It was supposed to be a quicky, in and out, we all know how that works. Right? ;)

Well, let me tell'ya ... taking the Ls to Target was a trip worth blogging!!!

First we had to ...

Dream BIG!!!

I hate to break it to you girls, but it's most likely NOT in your genes, 

unless you got some Czarnota luck up there.

If you got my stuff you are stuck in the training bra section for life.

 A-cup baby and it's more like a lower case a, not a Capital one.

Lulu's choice also worked well as a cap, 

a wee bit too big but hey ... full sun protection :)

Oh yes, after I convinced them that we needed to leave the underpants isle we walked right into the next trap.

"Tangled" was playing on all 20 TV screens on display.

Talk about 20D in HD. WOW!!!

 The first 15 minutes we spent lounging on the floor, concentrating on the big 42" screen right in front of us.

But then we moved on to a more personalized setting and chose separate screens in eye-sight.

The next 20 minutes basically flew by (in S-L-O-W motion).

Awww ... then little L started dancing and singing, na-course. 

If there is an audience she MUST perform.

... and she danced and danced and danced.

At this point I had probably 50% of the Target Security Guard Force surrounding me, trying to figure out if I was going to steal every TV on the shelf or if I was just a super cheap mother,  who takes her kids to a store to watch a movie for free.

After Rapunzel kissed Flynn for the 20th time (we do have the movie at home and have seen it enough times to narrate it) I finally convinced the Ls that it was time to leave.

We left the store and luckily the homeless guy collecting money for the other homeless people in his family had left to flirt with the newly blond beggar lady in front of the Dollar Tree.
I sure hope this romance will work out. She did have a nice fresh coloring job done on her hair.
My questions is just, if you have freshly died hair and hold your begging can with new,  French manicured nails ... why is it that you don't have  money to buy food?

Obviously I need this vacation badly . Once you start worrying about the love life of the beggars of Milpitas it's beyond a day at the spa. For sure!

Dust in the Wind!

Ohhhh ... these days are CRAZY!!!

We are trying to get ready for our HIGHLY anticipated trip to my beloved Tucson and things just come up and cramp my already full schedule even more.

Yesterday, at 8:40 AM, we had one of those moments.
L and I rushed out to "do some business" as you may call it. #2 was coming and didn't know where to go.  So we had to ask a buddy of ours to help #2 and show her the way to a better, more open space.

Huhhhh???? .... what is she talking about???
Hee-Hee ... I LOVE being mysterious :)

#2, as we call it, is L's second new tooth coming in.
It has been hiding behind that half loose baby tooth for quite some time and that dumb, old thing did NOT want to get loose and come out. After we waited and waited and waited ...
we finally went back to the Dentist and poor Lillie-Bean had to have yet another tooth pulled.

No biggy, right! We've been there, done that!
Ha ... if only so!

This one was playing "hard to get" and gave us a bit of trouble. It just did not want let go.
After a somewhat painful numbing process the doctor had to wiggle and jiggle it back and forth,
twist it and turn it and finally just RIPPED that thing out.
I bet he had sore biceps today.

My poor child had to lay there, with me kneeling next to her, in between dental equipment to hold her little, shaking hand, calming her little nerves and secretly trying to keep her from yelling at the dentist.

Thank god for these suction thingies.
You just can't really understand what the patient is mumbling, especially while under the influence of nitrous oxide. I sure hope he didn't take her "go away" mumbles too personal.

The last time she came out of the procedure room with a huge smile and her tooth box in her hand.
This time she jumped out of that chair and wanted to get the hell out of there!
She grabbed her balloon and the first toy that she could find on the way (usually it takes her 15 minutes to select the best out of the 20 offered 1 cent toys)  and then she was G-O-N-E!!!
Outside she just said "This was NO fun!"
My poor child!!!

What the ... , can't these dumb teeth fall out like everybody else's teeth do?
Like get stuck in a cucumber or in a bagel, I'd even go for swallowing them or heck even puking them out?

But NO, we have to be "special" and run to the dentist for $380 procedures every two months and that is to pull out the old ones, make room for the new ones, which will require even more costly procedures and torture my poor L with metal grills for years to come.
Our prognosis is: braces for SURE! ...erghhhh!!!!

Neither of us were impressed with that morning and the Tooth Fairy sure had her work cut out!!!

Before

still all smiles

check out this "tight" situation

During

still smiling (somewhat)

cool L

ready for action

"That "funny nose" makes me feel strange Mama!"

After

Bye-bye Mr. Mean Tooth.

All you are is Dust in the Wind!!!

Prepped with the purple sack, which L placed  in the tooth shaped box, which she then packed in the Tooth Fairy pillow, with the Tooth Fairy poem on it, Mr. Mean Tooth was nicely placed on top of the headboard and was ready for "pick-up".

I had my camera ready for the "morning after the tooth fairy came" shoot.
That, however, turned into a 3:12 AM wake-up call by L, who proudly and LOUDLY stood in front of our bed, demanding the light to be turned on IMMEDIATELY so she could inspect the Tooth Fairy goodies at once.

I somehow forgot to take pictures. What was I thinking?
I guess I was too busy trying to pry the gift out of her hands, while kicking my sleeping husband gently, yet still forcefully, several times in his shin so he would get up and push L out of the door and BACK into her OWN bed, where she was to sleep until a more godly hour (like at least 6:00 AM!!!).

So no pics of her fairy dust covered, sparkling face or her happy, toothless smile, while she was opening her Lego Camp Car set (which she had on her b-day wish list AND on her Santa list!!!).

This Tooth Fairy really knew her business though and provided much needed happiness after such a painful good-bye from our old "friend" Mr. Mean Tooth.
This camp car was VERY well deserved!!!
She also left a little something for Lulu, since she had been brushing so much better lately.

Fairy Amarina (the Mermaid Tooth Fairy) left behind a sweet note (with a few water dribbles all over the paper ), lots of fairy dust all over both Ls and a very happy Lillie-Bean.

Thanks Amarina!
I hope our next encounter originates by losing #3 naturally.
Our hopes are small, we saw the x ray and it doesn't look very promising,  but one can always pray for a miracle ... or a VERY  generous Tooth Fairy ;)

You know you are ...

... a stay-at-home-mom, when you shop for your day-to-day outfits in the Sleep and Lounge Wear section at Target!

Why? - you ask.
Because I can! - I answer :)

Lulu's comment of the day

We are walking back from the store to the car and a wind gust just came from behind and blew icy coldness on our necks.

M: Brrrr .... it's COLD!
Lulu: Yes, it's cold. It's like 14 Dollars cold today. That what cold number it is today mama."
M: ... grinnnnn ...