Skyler's 1st Loose Tooth!

I hadn't realized that Skyler was old enough to be loosing teeth yet, but apparently he is!  He lost his first tooth this February & now has a couple more getting looser every day.

When I first told him about leaving his tooth under his pillow for the "Tooth Fairy", Skyler TOTALLY didn't believe me!  I guess it sounded too good to be true to him!  So we borrowed my family's old special "Tooth Fairy Pillowcase" & put his tooth in the little tooth pocket that night... The next morning he came running up to us shouting, "The Tooth Fairy is real!  The Tooth Fairy is real!  She left me 4 quarters!"  After Kimberly noticed that Skyler had gotten MONEY out of the ordeal, she suddenly was determined to find a loose tooth of her own... But unfortunately none of them were even close yet!  :)  So, I guess we're on to yet another fun milestone of childhood... SO fun being a parent!

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day this year was fun... That morning, I left a trail of candy out of each of the kid's room that led to a little treat, which they loved of course.  And then for dinner I really wanted to do something extra special, so I bought a bunch of yummy fruit (a real treat for us!) & just made some simple smiley faces out of the fruit on each of our plates.  The dinner wasn't anything too amazing after that, but at least we got to start off with something a little funner, to show them how much I love them!  :)  We tried to keep things pretty SIMPLE this year, but it was fun nonetheless!  I sure LOVE these guys!

A WHOLE New World!

So it's been fun seeing the kids get older & hitting some new milestones lately... The girls now love to play dress-up & they've discovered that it's funner reading books up on top of the bookcase! 

I've also finally figured out a few more ways to do the girls hair than the typical pigtails we seemed to be doing everyday, which is improvement for me!  The girls have also been loving painting our toenails together lately... In fact, Bailey wouldn't hardly keep her socks ON after we painted her toenails for the first time, because she just wanted to see her cute little painted nails!

Even Laron painted the girl's toenails one morning because the girls were BEGGING him!  Funny to watch!

This Winter I've been working on teaching the kids how to do chores & surprisingly they've really kind-of loved the added feeling of responsibility & capability.  Even little Bailey can now help us unload the dishwasher... Pretty impressive!

One day Laron brought home a BIG box from work & this is what the kids and I made out of it...  PACE BURGERS!  Skyler helped me come up with the prices, which were hilarious!  Laron decided that HE couldn't afford to eat there!  So then the kids decided that they would throw in a free shake with every purchase... It was fun to see them cooking up all of our orders & being so excited about it!

One day I was reading the kids some books & had to leave for a minute to get something out of the oven.  When I came back, Skyler shushed me & told me that Kimberly had fallen asleep, so he scooted over so she could lay on his lap... How precious!

Every time Laron leaves for a church meeting, we've taught the kids to gather & say, "Good luck serving the Lord!"  It really has helped them to not feel so sad when Laron has to leave & it helps remind Laron that the reason he's leaving us, yet again, is to serve the Lord.  Not because he likes his calling more than us, but because he's serving the Lord.  The kids also love waiting at the top of the stairs lately for Daddy to come home & shouting "Daddy!"  So sweet to watch them be SO excited about their love for their Daddy!