As Big As He Is

 

We have this beach ball that the kids recently thought it would be fun to get out. Well they were right, Paxten loves it!! In fact he loves any type of ball. He loves to throw a ball back and forth and he love to chase a ball around. This was particularly funny to me because the ball was just as big as he is! He would pick up the ball and carry it around all over the kitchen, not even seeing where he was going. He was smiling and laughing as he was doing it, which made it even cuter! He would try and throw it, but couldn't get it to go very far because it was so big compared to him, but he sure tried. Then he would walk over to it and pick it up again and do it all over. It was very entertaining to him and the rest of us!

Snaggle Tooth

 

Parker lost his first front tooth a while ago, back in December. His other front tooth seems like it has been loose since then, but for some reason didn't want to fall out. We have been bugging Parker to be wiggling the tooth to make it looser and we have been trying to get him to let us pull it out. He didn't want anyone touching it. We were lucky if he let us feel how loos it was every now and then. Well it got to the point that it was just barely haning on and he still wouldn't let me or Matt pull it out. It kept moving and he was beginning to look like a hillbilly with that front tooth just hanging there. We atarted calling it a snaggled tooth. Last week we had Parker's good friend Mack over to play, the boys didn't have school the next two days and wanted to have a sleep over. I said to Parker that he could't go to Mack's house until that tooth came out, I was of course joking, but I wanted to see how badly he wanted to go. Mack's dad, Ladd, was there to pick up his kids and asked Parker if he could pull it out. Parker told him yes! Ladd asked if he was serious and I encouraged him to do it if Parker would let him. He grabbed a paper towel and before I knew it he pulled the tooth right out. It didn't even look like he puller very hard. The tooth came right out!! I knew it was ready! So now Parker has no front teeth! The tooth fairy came 2 nights later, she forgot the first night! Ooops! Parker received $2 for that tooth. He was pretty excited to show any one that would look his missing tooth!

First Tooth Gone

About 2 weeks ago Parker told me he had a loose tooth. I was kind of shocked because I thought he was still a little bit young to be loosing teeth. I hoped that he hadn't knocked it loosened it himself. So I didn't really think much about it. About a week later he came to me and said mom their is something in my mouth. I looked inside and low and behold there was another tooth behind the front one that was already coming in. So I guess he is big enough to loose a tooth if there is already another one there to replace it. So I told him to start wiggling the old tooth so that it will fall out. We have been bugging him every day to wiggle his tooth. 2 nights ago I felt his tooth again to see if it was looser and it boy was it!! I was just about ready to fall out. Matt wiggled it a little and the Parker said, "dad, just pull it out." So that is exactly what he did. He grabbed a tissue and put it over the tooth and yanked once and out the tooth came. It is a tiny little tooth. Not much to it really, but still my baby's first tooth!!! Glad it came out after we had family pictures!! He put the tooth under his pillow and got a whole dollar from the tooth fairy for the baby tooth. Boy was he excited and can't keep from smiling to show off his missing tooth!