What a difference a week makes!

In the past seven days we've gone from this:



to this:



and finally (thank the sweet Lord) to this:



I seriously could not look at that one hanging tooth ANY MORE!

My sister caught Olivia mid-laugh and yanked it out quicker than anything I've ever seen before. It was nothing short of a miracle. And, we are thankful!



Now we have an all-new Livi Loo!





Hallelujah!

She did whaaaaaat?

The tooth fairy assigned to our house last weekend must've been a *new* fairy-in-training. She went a little crazy in Olivia's room.

Here's how it went down.

Olivia lost her tooth. (SHOCKER, I know).

She was alllllllll excited about a tooth fairy visiting (as was I) until she got an offer to spend the night at Papa Joe's house. At that point, she promptly decided the tooth fairy wouldn't mind making an extra stop along her nightly travels. I agreed.

Not one to ruin the party (or interrupt a quiet evening at home with no children), I quickly sent her out the door with a promise to write the tooth fairy a note, letting him or her in on our plans. (Thanks to the movie The Tooth Fairy, my kids believe there are all sorts of fairies that can come and get your tooth - not just one - not just girl fairies - and not just professionals - there are fairies in training, as was OBVIOUSLY the case with this one).

Well, wouldn't you know, that sweet little tooth fairy flitted all around Olivia's room looking for the tooth fairy tin I sent to Papa Joe's house?!?! The sparkles from her dress got ALL OVER Olivia's dresser and she must've taken a dip in the water I left out for her because the water was PINK!





HOLY COW! Olivia Grace Theo had a CORONARY when she saw the scene. She just COULD NOT stop looking at all the sparkles and the pink water and the note that the TF left for her (scrawled with a glittery, silvery pen at the bottom of my note). I know the picture is bad...you can hardly see the writing.



In fact, Olivia was SO excited that she gave me SPECIFIC instructions to leave another glass of water out tonight since she lost her second tooth today. (HOORAY...the crooked Nanny McPhee tooth has FINALLY LEFT THE BUILDING!)

I'll have to let you know how it all turns out tomorrow! I'm thinking tonight's fairy may have a little turquoise number on...I'm feeling awfully turqoise-y. Thanks to a recent trip to Michael's and a 50% off coupon, I have every color glitter under the rainbow to prepare for the next few years of tooth shedding!

Here's to sweet little girls with big imaginations and mommies willing to encourage them! (Oh, and cool people on the internet with the idea that started it all).

Good night all!

Happy dreaming!

Check, check, check and check

Here are all the ways we checked off the items on our summer bucket list.

I had to make a slide show because, really, I just don't have 3 hours to upload all of these pictures one by one. Sorry.

So that's it! Tons of fun summer memories all wrapped up in one little slide show!

Now I just need to print the pictures and put them in our book and we're all set to remember Summer 2010 for a long, long time!

Hope yours was fantastic, too!

If you thought YOUR day was bad...

at least you didn't have to walk around like this:




I mean...SERIOUSLY.

I *CANNOT* believe I'm letting her leave the house like that.

She's a cute girl and that's a REALLY GOOD THING right now.

Reeeeeeeeeeaally good.

For real.

So apparently

the kids think we need to check off all of our Summer Bucket List items within a weeks' time.

Honestly.

I'm getting a little worn out.

It all started with Wize-N-Up, our church's version of crazy, wacky, wet, wild, peanut buttery, pie-in-your-face, nasty, FUN Vacation Bible School.

We had to cover our seats to ride home every night.

The kids were downright nasty freakishly soaked almost strapped to the top of the car ringing wet and dirty every night.

They LOVED it!

The first night, Whit came home soaking wet and covered in grass and other nature-ish stuff, but Olivia was completely dry and clean. (Oh, this is going to work out okay; only one nasty child each night! I can handle that I foolishly thought.)

Here are pics from the second night. Whit is soaking wet, covered in flour and Olivia is drenched from head to toe.



He was so gummed up with flour, he looked like walking play-doh.

And, then, by the third night, it was all over. Whit met me with a big blob of whipped cream in his hair and brown paint-like matter all over his face.



Yeah.

Turns out he ate chocolate pudding from a diaper.

A DIAPER.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Ewwwwwww. Eww.

But, guess who likes eating chocolate pudding out of diapers?

Yep.

This guy:



Who knew?

Anyway, they had a rockin' week at Wize-N-Up and we are thankful to be back in full swing at church!



Wize-N-Up. Check.

Next up, Olivia and I ventured to the Peace Center in Greenville to see Sleeping Beauty with our neighbors and friends.





We soooooo look forward to doing this each time we go. The girls love the shows and afterwards they get to walk around and get autographs from the characters.

This time, when the show wrapped and the audience was clapping {loudly}, Olivia shrieked with excitement, "TIME FOR AUTOGRAPHS!!!!!!"

I think it's her favorite part.

And, she literally got EVERY. SINGLE. CAST. AUTOGRAPH.

Even the trees.

Not lying.

Olivia definitely has the potential to be a great actress one day, given the high level of drama we currently have in our house.

For real.





















She was a little freaked out when that last big guy threw his arm over her shoulder for the photo op.

The look on her face is one part "I'm trying to smile and be polite" and one part "Get me the heck outta here; HE'S TOUCHING ME!!"

Oh, and I probably should've done a little more research before heading off to see Sleeping Beauty. It's not a family favorite of ours and I sort of forgot that the beautiful princess PRICKS HER FINGER and ALMOST DIES!!!!

Yeeeeeeeaaaah. Not a good call on my part seeing how my little princess has a not-so-fond affinity for blood.

Luckily, the part where she pricks her finger wasn't too intense and flew by quite quickly.

Thank the Lord.

See a play. Check!

Up next:

Water balloons
The Karate Kid

I know you can't wait!

Happy Summer-ing

Leigh :)

Our Summer To-Do List Scrapbook

You may or may not remember this from my last post:



It's our Summer To Do List.

Here's how this project went down.

{Including weird conversations with myself.}

Whit, Olivia and I gather at our raggedy old kitchen table and start talking about the things we reeeeeeeeally want to do this summer.

I have to give them a bit of a jumpstart, but then they're off and running with it.

Once I start writing on the big white foam boards Whit chuckles to himself and makes a snarky little remark that I'm sure acting like a teacher *or something.* {Insert 6 year old eye roll here}.

Me (to myself): ACTING like a teacher?? ACTING? Get it, buddy. I *AM* a teacher. Hmpfff. {Insert 34 year old eye roll here plus hands folded across chest like a two year old.}

We're on item number 8ish and I start thinking to myself (which is generally never good for the kids)...

"Now Leigh...seriously...how can you turn this fantastic project into something educational for the kiddos??"

"Hmmmmm."

"Let's multitask here."

"OH, OH, OH!! I know! I'll have them write the items down on some paper and we'll put them in a book."

"That'll be fun for them and they'll love checking off the boxes."

"And, I'll be throwing in some literacy and handwriting practice, too."

"Yessssss. Sneaky, Leigh. I like it."

"And, maybe we could add a few pictures to the book along the way...just to remember all the fun things we do."

"In case they ever forget how awesome their mom is to take time to do this sort of thing with them."

"Or, in case they ever want to blame me for ruining their lives or something ridiculous like that."

"I'll have proof to the contrary."

"Sort of like a scrapbook."

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"WAIT A MINUTE! I GOT IT!! WE CAN MAKE A SCRAPBOOK!!!"

And, so our little project was born.

After we wrote down all of our items on the foam boards, I pulled out some cardstock and markers.

We decided which items each child would write and I put their initials in the boxes on the foam boards and they proceeded to write out their designated items.

I made the check-off boxes on each page and they did the rest.


Then the cutest thing happened.

Olivia made swirly letters.


Cute, no?

I helped them write out the majority of the list because frankly, more than one page of writing just wasn't gonna happen.

After they were all finished, I whipped up a cover for our book using this kit and printed it out from my computer.


I hole-punched the sides and added rings to hold the pages together.

And then I added the ribbon.


We all know about my love affair with ribbon, right? It's a sickness, I know.

Here are a few of the final pages.





And, here are two kids who are very much looking forward to eating ice cream tomorrow morning for breakfast!!


We've added a few more since then and we've checked off a few, too.

I'll be updating you later on that.

And that's it!

Hope you all have a happy summer and do something fun with your kids or dogs or husbands, if you have them.

If not, do something fun with your neighbor's kids or dogs. But not their husbands, because, well....that would just be inappropriate.

Love and hugs everybody!

Happy Summer-ing!

Leigh :)

So...what are you going to do

this summer?

Bucket lists are all the rage right now in blogdom. (I'm not even really sure that's a word, but I'm going with it).

You know...the things you want to do in life before you "kick the bucket."

And, at the moment, lots of mommy bloggers are coming up with Summer Bucket Lists. Like this one.

It's a generally fun list of things to do with the kids before the curtain closes on summer.

Or, a way to keep the kids from whining with boredom every day.

Whichever way you choose to look at it.

For us, it's a way to get us out of the house!!

I'll admit it - we are a lazy bunch during the summer.

Whit will sleep until noon if I let him and Olivia is content to play in her room for hours on end doing her nails, or playing with barbies, ponies, Kit or watching movies.

And, of course...if there's no demand for going into the sweltering 100 degree heat, well, let's face it...I'm not going to sign myself up for an outing. That's all there is to it.

Sure - we do lots of fun things here and there, but we usually don't plan to do much beforehand. We're sort of spontaneous like that.

Or lazy. Whichever way you choose to look at it.

But, this summer, we are going to do things a little differently.

Whit has been in a great mood lately and Olivia...well...she's always up for something fun!

When I saw the first Summer Bucket List about a month ago, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Once they started popping up ALL OVER BLOGLAND, my subconscious kicked in and that was it.

The kids and I sat down and thought about some of the things we REALLY want to do this summer.

Some we will be able to do, some we won't. They are okay with that. And, who knows?? The ones they are *SURE* we won't be able to do just might be the ones we plan first!

So, here's our list in all it's glory.



{Okay, okay... I added the drive-in movie because after I saw it on Stacy's blog, I decided we must go too.}

I copied the idea of adding little check-off boxes from here (so cute)!

We've already done a few of the things on our list. And, the W's and O's in the check boxes will make more sense tomorrow.

Because, when I really thought about it, I decided I'd like to make a scrapbook out of our list (I know - you're shocked - I'm sure).

So, check back tomorrow to see how this cover becomes our summer scrapbook:



I know you'll be anxiously waiting...

Hee hee hee :)

I've been up...

to crafting and scrapping.

Zoo

Swim


Just Add Water


i {Heart} you


Fun in the Sun


Fireflies


Feel Better gift card holder


Beach savings jar


Doggone Good Birthday card



Fun times.