Duncan's turn again

Duncan pulled a tooth out this morning. It was only a couple days ago that he showed us that it was loose. Guess he had been working on loosening it more. He pulled it out all on his own. It's one of his top lateral incisors.


He was quite pleased with himself that he pulled it out all on his own. I'm not sure if he has any other loose teeth right now, but I know Liam does. I'm sure it won't be long till he's got that one out.

Fun times.

quite funny

We had the sister missionaries over for dinner yesterday. They got a kick out of the things the kids were saying. Here's an example-

Liam: Can I have a bun(roll)?

Anna: After you eat some of your dinner.

It took a while, but he eventually ate it.

Liam: Now can I have a bun?

Anna: Yes, would you like it with or without butter?

Liam: With butter! I love butter!

Anna cuts the roll, spreads on some butter, and hands it to Liam- who wasn't paying attention.

Liam: Hey!... Where's the butter? I said I wanted butter on it.

Anna: It has butter. It's on the inside. Look.

Liam opens the roll and sees the butter.

Liam: Oh... it's camouflage!


The sisters busted up! They thought that that was hilarious.

It was a good dinner.

monday music 03.08.10

This is a song that I hear on the radio often... and I'm glad I do. It's got a great sound. The group is called Five Finger Death Punch. I'm finding that I kind of like most of their stuff.

The song is titled, "Walk Away".

What do you think?

another tooth

Liam had another tooth come out yesterday.

It's one of the lower lateral incisors. They're both loose, but the one that was loosest, as it did with the two front teeth, got the most attention. He constantly wiggled and "messed" with it till it was pretty much hanging there, and Anna lassoed it. I'm sure it won't be long till the other lower lateral is lassoed out.

The two front adult teeth are descending pretty steadily. Every couple of days, it seems there's more of them visible. Liam is unfazed by it all. He's just happy to have another dollar to spend at the Dollar Tree.

friday flashback 03.05.10

Family portrait taken in 1994. (I'm pretty sure)

That would the the kids' ages- 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, & 11, that year.

As I look at this picture, I'm looking for things that are different, but all I can think of is how much we're still pretty much the same now as we were then. Obviously we're older, and are "aged", but other than that, no one is significantly different.

I find that I really like this picture.

slower than I thought

This week, I'm starting with the numbers-

Last week: 219.4
This week: 218.2
Loss total: 1.2

Any weight lost is better than no weight lost... but... I thought I would lose it faster than I am. I thought I'd be averaging closer to 3 pounds a week instead of about 1.5 pounds.

I'm sure the bottom line for that is my eating choices. If I ate strictly my diet foods, I'd probably see larger losses. But when Farmer Boys has cheeseburgers for 99 cents like they did last Saturday... . You get the idea.

So yeah, I'm only slightly flustered because I know it's me. I guess the real test would be to be hardcore on eating only my diet food for a week and have no "cheats". But, no "cheats"?! that's just crazy talk.

monday music 03.01.10

As I did some dishes this week, I reached for my iPod, and discovered that it was dead. Bummer. So I looked at the CD pile in the kitchen and decided to listen to Swoon, from the Silversun Pickups... GREAT CD!

The first song you hear on the record is called There's No Secret This Year. The opening guitar riff aways puts me in a good mood, and I become eager to hear the rest of the album.

Take a listen.


Good stuff.