Catching Up

I haven't had much time lately to blog (when will April 15th come?) so here are some pictures to catch us up.

2014 Winter Olympics Here we Come!!

Last weekend I didn't have to work on Saturday so we tried our hand at some cross country skiing. We went up to Eldora Mountain resort, a local ski resort for the Boulderites and took a first-timers cross country skiing lesson. We fell down a bunch but learned how to walk uphill like a duck and how to snowplow. Hopefully next winter we'll be able to take some more lessons and become more sure of ourselves on snow.

The Green Monster

Evelyn loved the green frosting I made for some sugar cookies we decorated at playgroup for St. Patrick's day.

All Dressed Up but Nowhere to Go

Girls got the Camera--what budding photographers and models we have

I'm a great dad

One of Elizabeth's tooths has been loose for many weeks. She has been so discouraged when it hasn't come out that today she hit the wall. I caught her trying to tie a string to the tooth and attaching it to a stool that she was going to have Rachel throw. It was actually yarn, so she couldn't tie it to her tooth, but that's when I knew she was serious.

After a call to her dentist on Sunday (who also happens to be my old college roommate, our friend, and our home teacher :-) he said that if I really wanted to pull it that it's best to twist it and to use something to get a grip. Oh, and he said she wouldn't like me as it would hurt. So I grabbed a kleenex, told Elizabeth it would hurt and asked her about five times if she really wanted me to do this. The last two times I asked I had my fingers on the tooth through the kleenex and she kept nodding. In typical dad fashion I asked one more time and as she was responding I twisted hard (dentists orders - don't pull punches or it'll be worse). Well, I lost the grip but the tooth popped out of her mouth right away! She bled for a while but she actually didn't complain about it hurting. She's just very excited about the tooth fairy.

Guess which hole in her gums is fresh?
The offending tooth. The tooth fairy has had problems in the past finding her teeth as she tosses and turns a lot and the tooth usually ends up somewhere on the floor. So we taped it to the bed frame this time.

My latest Bandwagon

I know I'm a little slow on the uptake on what to do for little girls but I finally got something figured out, at least for now. I've been making all these hairbows for the girls and then leaving them in their bathroom drawers and they've gotten jumbled up and broken. So, I fixed all the corker hairbows (don't look at the dowels/ribbon I burned in the process) and took a quick trip to Michaels to purchase $2.50 worth of supplies and oila! A hairbow holder that fits in the little wall space in my bathroom and matches the decor.

Mission Accomplished so now I can get off the hairbow bandwagon and try to figure something else girly out.