Man, these boys are growing up. Please take a moment from your usual
broadcasting to let this proud mother talk about her handsome little men as
they pass various childhood milestones.
BAM! Heath has graduated out of his crib!
Happened very suddenly with no real closure or preparation
for this mother. But maybe, just maybe,
my husband knew what was best. We were moving some furniture around in the
house as we are working on finishing up some space in the basement. Anyways. I thought Adam was putting the
twin-size spare bed in Heath’s room IN ADDITION to his crib being there. We had talked about that being the plan. I walk upstairs and see that Adam has disassembled
the crib. Some sort of audible, but unintelligible, sound comes out of my
mouth. Adam just shrugged and said there wasn’t really room for both and that
Heath was ready to graduate to a big boy bed.
Welp. There we are.
I knew he was ready as well.
We had talked about it with him a lot recently and one of his grandmas
had already picked out a cute comforter set for him with puppies on it. It’s
been easy, breezy. We had a rail up for
the first few nights, but I’ve already taken that down.
BAM! Tate has lost his first 2 teeth in the past week!
On Friday, he came home from school saying that one of his
teacher’s had pulled out his tooth that day. I thought, “OH DEAR! WHERE IS YOUR
TOOTH????!!! I MUST HAVE YOUR TOOTH! I CANNOT HAVE MY MIDDLE CHILD LOOKING AT
HIS BABY BOOK AND FEELING LIKE THE NEGLECTED MIDDLE CHILD OF WHOM I DIDN’T SAVE
HIS FIRST LOST TOOTH!” Fortunately, he was wearing a little necklace with a
tooth holder on it that contained the little gem. Whew.
And then on Monday, he came home again saying that his teacher pulled
out his other tooth. WHAT?! I didn’t think it was that loose! Rumor is this
teacher is married to a dentist and has a knack for some twist-and-pull method
that she is very proud of.
Its quite amazing that I find my child even cuter when he is
missing two front teeth. He thinks he’s
pretty big stuff also.
BAM! Landon has won his first art contest!
Maybe that isn’t a child milestone necessarily,
but I had to write something about him, right? The boys’ school had an ArtPrize
competition this past month. Kids got to vote on their favorites. Landon’s
entry had the most votes out of all of the 1st graders! So, not the BIG winner, but we have to start
somewhere. I worked with both of the
boys on their entries. That was a bit painful. I refrained from painting
anything FOR them, but I may have painted over things a couple of times giving
them another chance to do an area. I entered something I had painted in high
school. I thought the subject matter would be entertaining to share with an
elementary/middle school audience. Landon informed me that some of the kids in
his class found it “inappropriate.” Uh
oh. I didn't intend to be controversial. 
With all of those milestones being shared, all I have left to say is that I wish it would all just SLOW DOWN a bit! Or a lot. That would be fine also. They are only these ages once. Trying to soak it all up!
