Lydia Loses a Tooth and Other Randomness

Lydia lost her first tooth this week.  It's actually been loose for weeks, but she babied it, preferring to gently tug and wiggle it with her tongue easing it into greater and greater looseness over time.  At the right moment, it popped out, no blood or anything. Easy peasy.  

Iris has been on the later side of losing teeth, and it appears Lydia may be on the early side, but one thing I want to savor is the memory of Iris kneeling beside Lydia's bed on the first night we discovered Lydia's loose tooth, offering up some big sisterly advice about the best way to wiggle and move her tooth to loosen the "stitches", as they call the roots.

Viverkins turned five months old on Monday. Such a big girl!  This picture shows the face she makes all the time now.  I think it's her way of mimicking the face we always make at her.  Completely adorable, in the words of Iris. She's also started reaching out to touch us and grabbing her toes, and she's almost sitting all by herself.  And she CAN roll from tummy to back, although she won't do it very often.  We made a big deal out of the first time she did it and scared her, and now she stubbornly refuses.  Already a big personality.  She also prefers to be paid attention to...all the time, so we'll be working on that in the months to come.  I'm sure it doesn't help that there is usually always someone to pay attention to her.  I guess that comes from being the littlest.  

Last night, Prescott hosted their annual costume parade, and Todd snapped this right as we were leaving.  Iris is a vampire, and Lydia is sporting my attempt at a homemade bat costume.  Not bad, if I do say so myself.  

Let's Try This Again

Sooo..... It's been a long, long while since I've posted anything to this here blog, as I'm sure you all have noticed. I apparently left my motivation to document our family's history back in Missouri.

And it's not like this has been an average, run-of-the-mill year. There have only been eleventy billion things to blog about - our church, our house reno, the girls - just to name a few, BUT...zero motivation for writing about those things. Or any thing, for that matter.

It's crazy how life....moves, for lack of a better way to put it. Sometimes before I can even catch my breath. This year has been so crammed full of change and differentness and learning to cope with all that change and differentness that I think most days just living our life, much less writing about it, has been all I can handle. As a change-hater, it's been hard.

But, I'm vowing to resurrect this blog again. Some day the girls are going to be reminiscing and wondering why the heck an entire year of their life is missing. And that's just sad.

So, to kick off my return to documenting our little happenings again, I will leave you with a small clip of Lydia doing her Scooby Doo bit. She is totally obsessed with Scooby these days, and we all think she's hilarious - mostly because she has such a cute little lisp...