Tooth #4 for Rachel and an Alyssa scare!

So, Rach lost her 4th tooth today! First top tooth. She talks funny now. . . . It really wasn't ready to come out yet. It got "helped" along by little sister! It was loose, just not loose enough to come on it's own. Everyone was taking Sunday nappy naps (or supposed to be taking a nap!), then all of a sudden Brandon and I hear this frantic screaming upstairs. It was the "something is definitely not right" kind of screams. I was expecting to go up and see a child with broken bones, seriously hurt or something. Rachel is standing there on her bed (top bunk of a bunk bed), holding her tooth with one hand and the other hand cupped under her mouth trying to catch all the blood. I was actually impressed. . .NO blood on her bedding! That's my girl! :) She did get some on her clothes, but we got it out. Poor thing couldn't get down to get to us or the bathroom, and was screaming for help. Ended up finding out that Michaela climbed up to her bed, started playing with her, and kicked her in the mouth by accident! The loose tooth got the blow and became loose enough that Rachel could pull it the rest of the way out with ease by herself. (Daddy pulled out the last two when they were ready) She said it hurt REALLY bad this time coming out with a kick. :(

(I'll come back and edit this to add a picture of her "new smile" later, once I take one!)

Before that, on the way to church this morning, I was turning left onto Timber Dr. and all of a sudden heard a loud "ker-thump!" behind me. I'm like, "What the heck was that?" Rachel said, all calmly and matter of fact like, "It was the baby." I'm thinking, "The baby!? She's strapped into her chair! What can the baby do to make a noise like that?" I looked back when I could while driving to see the bottom of the base to her car seat pointing up at me, meaning Alyssa was upside-down facing the floor! Usually I follow Brandon to church, but today I felt like being first for some reason. Glad I was first! I pulled over when I could safely, and since he was behind me, was able to follow. He was confused as to what I was doing, but decided to stay with me and see what was the matter. He helped me strap her base back in. Ended up, one of the girls undid the seat belt holding the base down and I didn't know. I assumed that it would stay strapped! So, now we check every time we put her in that the base is still strapped. I'm sharing this story so those with a baby and older kids might be aware that this could happen, and not to just assume their baby's car seat base will always stay strapped down after you strap it. Our girls got a good talking to about not undoing Alyssa's base, that they put her in danger. Luckily, we found out it wasn't strapped anymore in a "not as" dangerous situation. She was a little shook up, but no scratches or bruises or injured from flipping over her chair and onto the floor. I shudder to think what could have happened to Alyssa if we had been in a bad accident before realizing this.

"Now I know what's in beans. . . ."

"Potatoes!" Silly Rachel. . .lol. Last night we had some cheesy chili at dinner, and she saw a pinto bean that was cut or bitten in half, and saw the inside. She thought there were potatoes inside. lol

May Day!

Happy May Day! :) Can't believe it's May!

I was just thinking. . . .there's some things last month I didn't get around to posting about.

Alyssa update:
She FINALLY started eating solid foods! April 17th, she started swallowing the food I was feeding her instead of spitting it out. :) She is a MUCH happier baby since then, back to smiling, and is holding her head up again. I feel bad that she's been hungry all this time since breast milk started to not be enough, but what could I do if she wouldn't swallow the food or take a bottle as supplement? I tried! I tried a soft sippy cup since she started 'eating'. . .she likes that much better than her juice/water mixture being put into a bottle. Which is fine. . .6 months old and using a sippy already. :) She's rolled over a couple times, probably by accident since she hasn't done it since. She's still small and wearing 0-3 month clothes (at least we're getting use out of the summer clothes sizes 0-3 we had for our July and April babies! lol), and 3-6 being slightly big on her. People in stores still think she's 3 months old. All of them have been on the smaller side, but I think she's been the smallest so far. She's liking her jumper and exersaucer more now, and doesn't slouch in them anymore. Still won't grab toys. Still hates tummy time with a passion, just like her sisters did! I think that's about it on her.

Michaela:
April 21st, I took Kayla to Baskin Robbins for her free birthday scoop of ice cream. Here's some pics of that. We went to the Fuquay BR since it's nicer than the "ghetto BR" we used to go to. Both are about the same distance. . .so, go to the nicer one! They had a little kiddie table, and she wanted to sit at that! She got strawberry!

Last day of ballet!

Today was the girls' last day of ballet for this season. I thought there'd be a couple more classes in May, but they're doing it differently this year. We don't do the end of year performance since it's been on a Sunday both years. Last year, they still had a couple classes in May before the performance. This year, they aren't. . .just picture taking in costumes and dress rehearsals. I really wish they could be part of it. . .the dances are sooo cute! I feel bad, but we're not doing it since they have to have the program on Sunday. :( Rachel's teacher was disappointed that she wouldn't be in it since she's one of the better dancers in the class. We were supposed to be charged half tuition for May, but I went and asked about it since they're not doing anything in May since they're not in the program, and they said they wouldn't charge us! :)

Still awaiting the schedule for the fall classes. Rachel wants to stop tap/ballet and do clogging instead. She also wants to do violin or piano. Don't have either of those! We'll have to start looking into that. Not sure where we'd put a piano in our house! Maybe in the loft? I think we need a bigger house! Maybe violin would be better right now. . .if I could find a violin teacher!

Oh, and Daisy's will be wrapping up here in about a month or so. She'll be bridging to Brownie's in June, I believe it is. Then, Brownie meetings will begin in September.

Mamas and Pajamas

Tonight Rachel had a mother/daughter activity with Girl Scouts that we went to. Our first! :) It was called Mamas and Pajamas since everyone had to wear their PJ's. Each of the girls got a water bottle to decorate, and magnetic picture frame to decorate, they took our picture together, painted each others nails, had karaoke, some dancing, 3 troops did skits, refreshments. We had lots of fun! Rachel said this one was more fun than the cowboy/cowgirl father/daughter dance she had a couple months ago! :) She liked going in PJ's. She also got a patch for the event to put on her tunic. Oh, there was also door prizes being handed out. . . .she didn't get anything. . . can anyone guess how she reacted after yesterday's post? lol She really needs to work on handling disappointment.
Edited to add the Daddy/Daughter pic from January. . .I was thinking that since I had mentioned it, but never actually posted about it at the time, I'd at least share the pic from then. This was January 26, and Rachel decorated her cowgirl hat we got at Michaels.

Wolf Walk

Rachel's school had a "Wolf Walk" today. Raising money for technology equipment for the school. Unfortunately, we forgot the camera! All of us went since Brandon wasn't feeling too great and took some PTO today. I had originally planned to just go by myself with the other girls. They walked around the bus loop, then got free snow cones, and handed out prizes to those who helped raise the most money. We gave $10, and didn't ask anyone for any money for this since we had already sold Chick-fil-A calendars and Girl Scout Cookies! So, Rachel didn't raise much, and didn't get a prize with our measly $10. lol Poor thing was so upset that she didn't get a prize. There was a pizza party awarded to the 3 classes in the school that earned the most as a class. Rachel's class was one of them! :) So, Brandon and I tried to console her and remind her that at least she'll be getting pizza with her class. . . . .

She also got her class picture and spring pictures back today. The class picture turned out really good! All the kids look nice, and ALL of them are in it! Her spring pics look nice too. We have to decide to either pay for them, or send them back. Not sure what we're doing yet with those. $45 for the 5 sheets they offer. Or, pick and choose any number of sheets you want for $12 a sheet, send the unwanted ones back. If you pick 4 sheets and send one back. . .it's $48. . .lol. May as well at that point just keep them all and pay $3 less! Who's going to actually only keep four sheets?

"It doesn't pop when I blow!"

Rachel brought home a blow pop today. I let her have it. It's her first one. She opens it, blows on it, then says, "It doesn't pop when I blow!" She had a VERY disappointed tone! I think she was excited to see it pop after blowing on it. I told her that it isn't going to pop, it's a lollipop. So, she asked, "Why is it called a blow pop then?" lol She didn't realize there was gum inside it!