Easter Egg Hunt #1

We went to an Easter Egg Hunt here in Walcott on the sat. before Palm Sunday. The Walcott Women of Today joined with Calvary Preschool to put on a really fun hunt. They laid out all the eggs for the different age groups and then did one group at a time so parents could see all their kids hunt. It worked out well. Shelby joined Leah, Trey and Lexi in the hunt.

The lootLeah asks Zach to open her meme (candy).

A fun time was had by all!

April Fools

Okay so this is late. On April 1st, Trey had the best April Fool's joke ever. We went to the dentist because he had a cavity to have fixed and was to get sealants put on two of his teeth. The dentist checked for his cavity and it wasn't there after all! So we just got the sealants. Good going Trey!

Alexis' Birthday Blessings

Last Friday was Lexi's birthday.

She had a ton of celebrations including but not limited to:

Supper out and shopping with G and G Knutsen. This is a tradition that all the grandkids just love and look forward to.

She got to take spring oreos to school for her birthday treat.

Her party on Friday night. Nana and G. Buddy, the Ficks and Grandma K. all came.

On Saturday, after a fun Easter Egg Hunt at the park, Lexi and I went with Trish and Shelby to Olive Garden for lunch and then we surprised her and went to the mall.

To get her ears pierced!

As if that weren't a big enough surprise, she then went to another egg hunt with the Ficks and then they went get a pedicure!

This is one pampered little eight year old:)

Logos Banquet

Last night was Lexi's Logos Banquet. The last night of the year for the Wed. night program she has been attending at my parent's church.

Alexis and Grandma (Knutsen).

Alexis and Nana (Huntley)

Questions

My kids always have times when they ask the funniest questions. Sometimes not so funny of course. Every parent has this experience I'm sure.

Trey brought me down a couple pegs with the question he asked the other day. The conversation started because I am in charge of filling the Easter eggs for my family's celebration coming up soon. While I often have this task, this year I got the wild hair to ask every child what color they wanted for their eggs. Our tradition has been to give every child their own color so all eggs come out evenly during the hunt. Not such an easy task when you have a large family. We will have 12 kids hunting this year. Our family has collected enough eggs over the years to make this possible. Between pastel and bright colors it hasn't been a problem. So when I asked Trey what color he wanted, he said purple. This did not surprise me as he has recently changed his favorite color to purple because that's the color of Matt Kenseth's car now. (Nascar) But I already had two people on the list with a preference for purple so I asked him what his second choice would be. He said, "Do you have a red the color of blood?"

Now my first inclination would have been to freak out and question what kind of mother I was to have a child who would say something like that. But luckily I have an older son who indoctrinated me into the world of boys some time ago. He went through this icky stage of drawing monsters with fangs and blood running down and weapons of all styles and shooting and killing... I really began to wonder about him but I had a friend at church who volunteered in classrooms and said that this was completely normal for this age of boys and not to worry, he would grow out of it. And indeed he did. It was a stage. An icky stage for a girl who grew up with all sisters, but a stage just the same.

So did I lecture Trey and try to talk him out of it and tell him it wasn't appropriate to say such things? Nope. I said, "Yes, you may have red." And that was the end of that. For the time being anyway. Maybe my family will all read this before Easter and not be shocked when Trey runs around yelling about his blood red eggs:)

I have a friend who also has boys and posted about her conversation with them in the van one day. I'm going to put a link to it because I think it is just hysterical. So if you aren't familiar with links (Dad:) just click here.

I also have a sister-in-law who fielded the most amazing questions from her 8 year old daughter. It shows the difference between boys and girls quite nicely. Trish is going to have a baby so that brought up a lot of questions, obviously. But I was astounded by the range of Shelby's questions.

I am always amazed that people can remember these things enough to blog about them later. Good work girls:)

More dentist woes

Since the last time I blogged about them, my children have had their big dentist visits. Trey and Lexi saw Mrs. Dr. Doyle in one room while Mr. Dr. Doyle saw Zach in the other room. That way it didn't turn into an all day long visit for Dad (who was lucky enough to be the one to take them while giving Mom and Leah the opportunity to still attend MOPS).



Trey had an abcessed tooth that needed to be pulled. It was his front one, which Dr. Doyle had told us had been injured at some point along the way, probably from falling on it. Completely plausible considering the child. He also got sealants put on his 6 year molars. Necessary for my children. So far we haven't had a cavity in a permanent tooth. PTL.



Then Dr. Doyle worked on Alexis who had lost a filling and needed it replaced. Alexis loves to go to the dentist so that was easy for her. Dr. Doyle and the hygenist were actually very pleased with the behavior of our children. Model patients they were. This is such a blessing after the first few years of dentist nightmares with the oldest. Thankfully, Dr. Doyle never mentions that unfortunate time although she for sure remembers it.



Which brings us to the oldest. Mr. Dr. Doyle did Zach's root canal on his front tooth. Last fall he fell on the concrete and knocked his tooth completely loose. He actually had to push it up and back in place. No surprise that when we went for his check up, the nerve was dead and the tooth was starting to turn color. It would have turned black so when he did the root canal he bleached it and now that it has tightened back up it's back to normal.



This has been all good news up to this point. The children survived. The woe part comes with the news that I needed a root canal too. Mine was in my second molar and the cavity was actually big enough to be touching the nerve, causing a lot of pain. My experience was much worse than Zach's who was surprised I was actually in pain after the procedure. Because of the extent of the damage, Dr. Taylor needed to do a whole lot of digging and therefore it was much more traumatic on my mouth. I am starting to feel better now after 2 days, just in time to go back tomorrow and get my filling placed in that tooth.



Lord willing, this will be the end of our dentist woes for awhile.

Lighter than...air?

I've had people ask me if I was done blogging. Nope. Just having a dry spell.

I made waffles yesterday and I have been making them to order. I make most of them dark in color and rather crispy because that's how I like them. Dave has told me he likes them lighter in color and rather soft. So I had this conversation with Alexis and Trey.

Me: I made this waffle for Daddy because it's really light but you guys can split it since he's not ready.

Alexis: Wow that is light! That's very light!

Trey: Yes. It's so light I can run with it!