Toothless

 Makenzie's two front teeth have been loose for a really long time, but she would not make any effort on her own to get them out or allow us to help :).  We went to the dentist yesterday, and the dentist so kindly gave her some numbing gel and plucked them right out with no problem.  Makenzie says she wants to go to the dentist every time she has a loose tooth now.  They gave her a little tooth necklace to carry them in. 

First Days of School

Here are the kid's first day of school pictures.  

They were actually on separate days.  

It killed Jordan to have to wait a whole week and a half before it was his turn to go! 

Makenzie: the big first grader, sporting a new horse shirt!  No surprise there!

I got too many cute ones of Jordan, so you get to see them all. 

Can you tell he is excited?

 

 This isn't the best picture, but it is Makenzie getting on the bus. 

 Jordan is in afternoon preschool and we found out that he gets to ride the bus home with Makenzie, which made his day!  I still get to drop him off though.  Here he is being greeted from off the bus by his next door playmate, Lucas.

Goodbye Summer:(

School starts on Monday. Here are some pictures of the last of our summer celebrations! Farewell to the constant playing, late nights, sleeping in, endless popsicles, and flip flops. It's great to be a kid!

Here are the kids with Gavin's birthday present from Grandma Sherman:

Makenzie has made great friends with our next door neighbor, Chloe.

Makenzie finally got brave enough to lose the training wheels!

Whipped cream finger-painting!

Enjoying the county fair and all the rides.
Gavin barely made the height limit and he loved it!

Dressing up like his sister-- all by himself!

Playing in a water fountain to cool down.

Beautiful flowers that are blooming at our house!

Goodbye Summer!
We will miss you!
It went by way too fast this year!

Attention Please!

Makenzie lost her first tooth!

It really seemed to be bugging her these last few days. Tyler pulled a trick on her and just wanted to "see" it. Well, of course his hand "accidently" bumped it a little too hard and it came out. After she got over the initial shock of the blood, she was more than excited. She has been beaming all night! Our little girl is growing up... (tear)!

There's a 2 year old in the house!

We celebrated Gavin's 2nd Birthday this weekend! I can't believe he is two! He is so fun and we all love him so much. Tyler had to be at a medical conference in Columbus on Friday, so we decided to make a trip out of it and visit our friends the Talbots. We planned on having a BBQ dinner at a park Friday night. Right as we were walking out it started pouring rain! We decided to still go and cook under a pavilion and let the kids get soaked to the bone. It was a fun adventure! The pictures are kind of scary-looking because they are were taken with the phone and it was dark, but the kids sure had fun!

Saturday we spent the morning swimming.

We then had a small party for Gavin. He loves anything with wheels, so he loved his cake.

He loved blowing out his candles and knew exactly what to do. I would randomly sing the birthday song later that day and he would always blow out his imaginary candle at the end! Too cute!

Gavin got some micro-machines!
It was a great and very cheap e-bay find. It's been a hit with all the kids!

Digging in! Yum!

All the kids (including Tyler) relaxing and watching some "Tom and Jerry."

Thanks Jay and Mel for letting us crash your place. It was a fun weekend!