Entries from June 1, 2006 - July 1, 2006
Milestones
Camille hit a huge milestone yesterday. Actually it was a bigger milestone for her than it was for me. She lost her very first tooth!Camille is the last one in her class to loose a tooth and this has been very upsetting for her. For the last two months she has been trying to loosen her front teeth and she has had her tooth fairy pillow (you too can get a tooth fairy pillow in our very own boutique :) picked out for months, just in case.
The funny thing is she lost a bottom tooth by accident when she was trying to remove a piece of plastic from a Barbie doll leg with her teeth. The tooth wasn't even loose! She came running into my bedroom with blood all over her mouth and I though she fell and knocked it out. She didn't even know that her tooth was missing and then freaked when she thought she couldn't find the tooth for the tooth fairy. We found the tooth in her bed and tonight it lays in her tooth fairy pillow waiting for the surprise to take it's place. By the way teeth are worth much more today than they were when I was a kid. I think I got a quarter a tooth. The tooth fairy left Camille $4 for her first one.
She has been on cloud nine all day and she can't keep her tongue out of the gap. Everyone she sees today has been greeted with a huge grin to see if they notice the missing tooth.
All of this is bitter sweet for me. It just seems like yesterday when I was documenting her first tooth coming in, the first time she crawled and then walked. All those milestones are documented in her baby book, but the biggest milestone of all is just the simple fact that she is growing up so fast. Camille will get money for her tooth, but I will save it in a special place to remind me of this milestone in her life.
Wendy
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The Experiment
So Father's Day he surprised the kids with this...
Brian is getting everything ready with the help from Camille and Griffin. He made a cardboard tube to put the Mentos in so they would fall into the coke bottle easily. Couldn't be too big or too small. This took planning, patience and skill.
With a steady hand and precise timing Brian drops the Mentos into the coke bottle... Make sure you do this outside away from small children and the house.
The skill here is to see how fast you can get up and move away from the coke bottle without getting coke all over you. Because as soon as the Mentos hit the coke it explodes! Brian moved pretty fast!
After that fun we all went swimming!
Hope everyone else had as good of a father's day!!!!!
Once upon a time... 20 years ago...
Only 7 of us showed up for our 20 year but 7 out of 30 is not too bad. About the same came to our 10 year reunion. My best friend from high school, Danny, came to stay with me and my family a few days before and it was so great catching up and remembering stories of different people and situations.
All 7 of us have done pretty well.
My highschool was a private boarding school, I was a day student, meaning I still lived at home, but most of my friends lived on campus. Being a small school gave me many opportunities I would not have gotten else where mostly because they have a great art department. I can honestly say I would not be where I am today if it wasn't for that school.
I had a conversation with someone who thinks that going to your reunion is just trying to relive what you had in the past. Hoping by seeing old friends, all the feelings you had in highschool will come back because some feel those were the best time in their lives. Now don't get me wrong I had a great time in highschool and there are a few really good times that still make me laugh. But I think the best time in my life is now and the future. Those four years I had in highschool were the building blocks that helped me grow. Even the terrible times were learning experiences that I would never change. (probably couldn't have told me this 20 years ago though)
So going to my reunion was important to me because this place and the people I knew way back... 20 years ago ... were part of what has made me who I am today. And I am pretty proud of that! Can't wait to see what happens in the next 20 years!