Snowballs and Loose Teeth

We had snow Wednesday afternoon! You read that right, it was 70+ degrees last week and snowing today. Crazy! I was on my way home from work, a little earlier than usual at about 3:15, and started seeing the flakes falling. By the time I got home, it was a full-blown flurry (we get excited about a little flurry in Georgia!). My guys at home hadn’t even noticed until I walked in and pointed it out. A couple hours later and it was falling pretty steady and collecting on the ground. The boys made their way outside and made a few snowballs. Riley ran in the house and came back out with a box of ice-cream cones. He wanted to make snow cones, so he did proceeded to eat the whole thing. Owen licked his a few times and then gave it to his brother. It was fun. Although Riley has seen snow before, neither of them remembered ever having snow so it was pretty exciting. By about 8pm or so the snow had turned into rain and by this morning it was mostly gone. They didn’t even get a day off of school out of the deal, but it was fun while it lasted.

More excitement that same night. Riley pulled a loose tooth. After eating a rice-crispie treat after school, he’d nearly lost the tooth while eating so it wasn’t hanging on by much. Sunday we’d seen an episode of America’s Funniest Home Videos where a kid pulled a tooth by tying it to a Nerf gun and shooting it. Needless to say, Riley wanted to try it and so that is what we did. The first try, the floss just slid off his tooth. The second try, the tooth popped out and went flying across the room. We found it and Riley promptly put it under his pillow where it remained until 5am this morning when I was leaving for work. The tooth fairy quickly found a couple of dollars and made the exchange before leaving for work. He would have been so disappointed if the tooth fairy hadn’t visited, I’m glad the fairy remembered! Whew!

I talked to Lance this morning. He crawled into bed with Riley to wake him this morning. As he woke him Riley sat up, reached under his pillow, grabbed his money and put his head back on the pillow, never opening his eyes. I can imagine a very different scene (tears included) had the Fairy forgotten to do her job!

Note to self - I’ve got to get our camcorder fixed! I’ve gone to grab it now 3-4 times since it died over Christmas break. The Nerf/Tooth-pulling scene would have been a perfect post for You Tube!