We've been getting into the groove here with school in full swing. Hard to believe how fast the month has flown by!
Last Friday we spent some time at the
Dallas Arboretum where we met up with Rachel and Clara. All the Fall decorations are out and all the orange pumpkins add beautiful color to the already glorious arboretum but it also offers great photo ops for my 2 tagalongs. We'll have to go back though because the little pumpkin village wasn't open yet. I LOVE that we have a pass and can just go whenever. We still need to get Stephen there though to see the Chihuly exhibit.
Oh yeah, and I was the mom of the century....Kaitlyn had a loose tooth that she was asking me to pull. I grab a tissue, grip the tooth hard at the gumline and pull while twisting a bit. Out popped a molar. She quickly informed me that
THAT WASN'T THE RIGHT TOOTH!! The incisor next to it was the right one. So I went and grabbed a second tissue and pulled that one out too. There was a bit more blood than I was expecting and it was exciting. But we got the bleeding to stop. Ironically we went to the dentist the next day and by the morning you could see the top of her permanent molar coming in where I'd pulled the"mistake" tooth, so it WAS ready to come out and it wasn't a bad thing I'd pulled it. Apparently she has a whole mouth full of loose teeth and our tooth fairy will be a busy lady for the next little while. Sam incidentally is really anxious to loose teeth. He hasn't lost any! I think he's a bit excited for the revenue stream he knows it is. Silly boy!
We also had a VERY busy Saturday. The morning started with an annual
Balloon Festival Breakfast hosted by some Plano friends, the Blacks and
the Mathenys. From their backyard you can see the hot air balloons lift
off from the Plano Balloon Festival. We enjoy some pancakes, sausage,
juice and festivities and start our morning off right. There is face painting, balloons, bounce houses and just a great time. Sad that there are some friends who we only see this one time a year so I'm glad we make it a point to attend.
We couldn't stay too long though because we had
soccer team photos and a game. It was a very warm day with 10:30 photos and an 11:30 game, there was no shade, we kept running to the bathrooms and drinking fountain to refill water bottles. It was a good game. Our team played against a "club" team that hammered us last year and we really held our own. I think the score was 5-3 and though we lost, they had some really random lucky goals that we just couldn't have blocked. This season has been so fun because the boys (who many of them have been playing together for a couple years now) are finally "getting it". Stephen is coaching them and he does so great with the boys. His priorities are in the right place with not really caring about winning but about teaching the boys how to play and getting them to play well and giving everyone a chance to play. I LOVE watching him coach and I LOVE that he's so involved with Sam in something. Sam has grown so much. He used to love to kick the ball hard and far but has really been mastering dribbling and took a turn as goalie during the first game and was an excellent defender!
From our soccer game we RAN home to change as quickly as we could into church clothes (The girls wore dresses to the game, Matthew was halfway dressed--which was good because he was pretty worn out and promptly fell asleep in the car). We were headed to a favorite place--the
Dallas Temple for a Primary Activity. It was special to walk around that place with our children and let them feel what a special place it is. Matthew was a bit concerned that we'd forgotten his tie and our children were so well behaved I now know that they CAN INDEED be reverent and for that I am glad and so proud of them.
Last Friday we spent some time at the Dallas Arboretum where we met up with Rachel and Clara. All the Fall decorations are out and all the orange pumpkins add beautiful color to the already glorious arboretum but it also offers great photo ops for my 2 tagalongs. We'll have to go back though because the little pumpkin village wasn't open yet. I LOVE that we have a pass and can just go whenever. We still need to get Stephen there though to see the Chihuly exhibit.
We couldn't stay too long though because we had soccer team photos and a game. It was a very warm day with 10:30 photos and an 11:30 game, there was no shade, we kept running to the bathrooms and drinking fountain to refill water bottles. It was a good game. Our team played against a "club" team that hammered us last year and we really held our own. I think the score was 5-3 and though we lost, they had some really random lucky goals that we just couldn't have blocked. This season has been so fun because the boys (who many of them have been playing together for a couple years now) are finally "getting it". Stephen is coaching them and he does so great with the boys. His priorities are in the right place with not really caring about winning but about teaching the boys how to play and getting them to play well and giving everyone a chance to play. I LOVE watching him coach and I LOVE that he's so involved with Sam in something. Sam has grown so much. He used to love to kick the ball hard and far but has really been mastering dribbling and took a turn as goalie during the first game and was an excellent defender!
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