Lost Tooth!

Yep! Another lost tooth, and this time everyone can see it!  He looks so adorable with the gap toothed grin, and KNOWS it too!  Ian and daddy were wrestling in the living room and Ian's head met daddy's knee to get this one out.  Took him over a week to finally wiggle it all the way out.  He borrowed Alex's tooth fairy pillow (since it is the least girly) and she left a silver dollar for him!  He was excited to trade it for a $2 aussie coin and has plans to buy his very own candy bar with it.  Baba has made him a super cool leather pillow to use from now on, with a leather pocket and fringes all around.  Maybe the next tooth will be left in it?  By the way, Grandma, I still have the pink heart pillow you made me when I was a kiddo!  Annika alternates using it with the one grandma Claudia made for her.  Alex pulled her last baby tooth last month-a molar and is now officially done with the baby teeth.  Braces next for her. . .

Lyle is HOME until we leave for our vacation!  He even came home a day early on my birthday as they had done everything they needed to!  At least nothing is scheduled, which is not the same thing, but wow!  Home for dinner at night and breakfast in the morning.  It is strange having him home, but very welcome.  I did an uh oh yesterday doing the laundry though!  He left a blank notebook (thank goodness!) and his safety handbook in his pants pocket.  I never check them as he is so good about NOT leaving things behind. . . and you can guess what happened.  yep.  A washer full of grey goo that covered everything, worse than the odd tissue for sure.  Plugged up the drain so I got to clean that out, which meant the floor got washed up too.  And a pile of towels that needed washed after all that.  The dryer did a pretty good job pulling all the paper off the clothes-had to clean the filter 3 times and it was packed with the finest white fluff!  Looked like fluffy cotton.

So much for a dry, sunny Queensland winter here this year!  It has been chilly, wet, and windy.  It poured all night last night, but the sun came out for a peek at least!  Cold is redefined when there is no heat in the house-at all.  45 degrees is nice, but NOT in the house!  Love the crock pot and roasting things in the oven.  My favorite thing has been butterflied lamb shoulder marinated in lime and garlic, with roasted potato, carrot, onion and garlic.  Green peas or beans on the side and it is a YUM meal!

We have tickets to see Giselle with the Queensland Ballet this Saturday night.  The whole family gets to go to this one.  An evening performance and we will take the bus there and back.  So nice to have good mass transit!

Love to all!  We are counting down!