All I want for Christmas....

.... is my two front teeth

Landon lost his other front top tooth. So as you can see he is missing two teeth. It seems pretty dramatic to have teeth pulled over here. He was eating dinner Tuesday night and pushed it back. It started bleeding but he wouldn't let us pull it. Then dinner Wednesday night he did it again, but I told him it was hanging off, and pulled it before he knew what to do. Afterward he was delighted and said that eating food was a great way to get teeth loosened up. Crazy kid - he was in tears over it. Oh well I am just glad that we don't have any more loose teeth over here for a while.

Canning

On Monday and Tuesday I did a ton of canning. I did Peaches and Pears. In the end I came out with 21 quarts of peaches, 1 batch of peach jam, 5 sm bags of frozen peaches, and 28 quarts of pears. It was quite the job. Marcus helped me with the pears which was very nice. Also about a month ago I went to McCammon to make applesauce with my mother in law. We made 20 quarts of it and I got to take home 14 quarts. I was so pleased with it.

Thou Shall Not Worship False Idols

Landon: In the garage riding his bike

Marcus: "Hey what are you doing get in here." (It is time for bed)

Landon: Rides his bike and hits the car

Marcus: "Careful I don't want you scratching and denting the car."

Landon: "It's only a car."

Marcus: "Ya, but I don't want it to look ugly."

Landon: "It's only a car, you don't worship it."

Marcus: "You are absolutely right, but I don't want dents and scratches all over my car."

My First Haircut!!

Before Front - also a great shot of his two front teeth.


Before Back


After Front - mmm yummy cape


After Back - I had to kiss his face while Marcus took the picture so he would stop looking at the camera. And no I don't close my eyes when I kiss him you just gotta look at his cute face.

Tannen got his first haircut yesterday. He is about a week shy of 8 months and I thought it was time to cut off his slightly fuzzy curly hair. Plus he has some really long hairs on the top. He did fairly well considering he is so little.

Marcus held him and I cut. Kylie danced and talked to him. I buzzed the back. He thought it was pretty cool, and just relaxed after a while. I think the sound and the buzzing on his head was soothing or something. After that I cut the top with scissors. That was the hard part. He kept wiggling his head back and forth trying to check it out. It was pretty cute over all.

I did get to thinking after I cut his hair I cut Landon's and then Marcus' hair. I really am glad Tiffani showed me how to cut boy's hair so long ago right before I got married. It really has saved us ton of money. But now I have three heads of hair to cut about every 6 weeks - and that is busy. Just line them up one after another. And throw in Kylie every few months too. Oh well I guess I am a girl with many talents.

Kylie: Hey mom what's your phone number?

Mom: Tell her my phone number.

Kylie: Okay when I grow up and leave you better tell me that phone number.

Mom: Okay.

Assistant Chef

Landon and Kylie cooking dinner


Cheese


Landon making eggs


Kylie making hashbrowns


Tannen playing really good in his room while we cooked dinner.

I had a couple of great helpers today in the kitchen for dinner. They picked out breakfast for dinner - we eat it more for dinner than actual breakfast. My kitchen is built for someone in a wheel chair so it is the perfect height for the kids to help out. They were delighted, and so was I.