The Tooth Fairy Came to Visit!

That's right! Kyler lost his first tooth! He was so excited. It's been wiggling for weeks! But it was nice to have it gone, I'm not as worried that he will swallow it!

When we got home yesterday and I headed out to do some grocery shopping and K was sitting on the couch wiggling his tooth. He pulled it out himself and bolted to his room to put it in his pillow! Here's the photos Arnold Got:























After our bath time and chilling out I snapped a few more photos:













Then this morning K woke up to the tooth fairy who had come! He was so excited. For his first tooth this is what his tooth fairy left:



Swedish Berries, Sunglasses (that match his scooter!), tooth brush that vibrates and is a skateboard, tooth paste that is sparkly, $5.00 bill! and a letter from the tooth fairy.





He is growing up!

Water fight!

K's Godmother Leah, got the boys these squirters! They love them. We left them at my parents house but the kids had a blast with them this weekend. Enjoy the photo overload:





















































































And a nice surprise when we got home was our new screen door! I love it!

A Cool Ride To School

On Friday Arnold booked the day off of work and we got to do some fun stuff (ie go to my parents house early).

Because Arnold had the day off K got to have a special 'super cool' ride to school. Arnold hooked up the trail-a-bike to his and off they went! Enjoy the photos:

New Food #22!! Yummy Meatball subs!

I tried the "Saucy Meatball Sandwhiches". It was super good. Here's how to make them:

Start to finish 25 minutes

2 eggs
1 1/2 cups of soft whole wheat bread crumbs
1/2 cup of finely choped onion
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried italian seasoning, crushed
2 pounds of lean ground beef
2 - 26 to 28 oz jars red pasta sauce
12 hoagie or bratwurst buns
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese

1 - Preheat oven to 350F. In a large bowl, combine eggs, bread crumbs, onion, salt, italian seasoning. Add ground beff and mix well. Shape into 48 meatballs. Arrange meatballs in a large roasting pan or 15x10x1 inch baking pan. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until done (160F). Drain well (I placed them on papertowels)

2 - In a 4-quart Dutch oven, combine the pasta sauce and meatballs. Heat through, split buns or hallow out tops of unsplit buns. Sppon hot meatball mixutres into buns. Spoon any remaining sauce over the meatballs. Sprinkle cheese over the meatballs. top with bun halves, if buns are split. Let stand 1 to 2 minutes before serving. Makes 12 servings.

Perserving: 599cal, 18g total fat (6g sat fat), 86 mg chol, 1351 mg sodium, 83g carbo, 6g fiber, 29g pro.

A New Month, A New Plan!

Did you know it's May? It's the 5th month of the year. It's a great month. This month seems to bring a lot of things into our lives. So far our 'plans' are:

Today was National Scrapbooking Day! I had so much fun. I was at Lasting Impressions in Sarnia, Ontario and I had so much fun hanging out and scrapbooking again. Before Scrapbooking Kyler and I met up with Godmother Leah! Kyler is still telling us about the candy he got for being a good boy, and spending time with Leah as well.

Tomorrow we head home to Toronto. Arnold is doing sound at church in the evening at The WALL service. He loves doing it and it's the first Sunday of the month. So he will be gone for a bit but will have fun.

This coming week (May 3rd to 7th) is a bit of a change for us. The Community Centre Pool we go to is closed for renovations. They are going to be changing and upgrading some of the equipment and this means there is no pool activity for the week. This means no swim training for me and no swimming lessons for the boys.

The following weekend (May 8th to 9th) we hope to work on the back yard. We are crossing our fingers to have a nice weekend and spending a lot of time outside. If we don't get yard work done we will get some more things clean up and packed up in the house. We are going to head out to Home Depot because it's the kids craft days! Every second Saturday at 10am they have the kids group (the butterfly house was last month). This month it is called the "Picket Fence Planter". I'm excited to have 2!!

The week after (May 10th to 14th) we are back into swimming. It's our last week for swimming lessons. At least for this first time in swimming. We have already registered for the next session.

That weekend (May 15th to 16th) we were expecting to have Arnold's parents to come and visit but we found out on Thursday or Friday that they aren't coming anymore. Instead it's another working on the yard weekend, maybe the Toronto Islands!

The next week (May 17th to 21st) the kids start their new swimming lessons. We have taken over the class and only my 2 boys and another friends 2 boys will be in the class together. I'm excited for it.

The long weekend is next (May 22nd to 24th). Arnold has the Monday off and my parents are coming down to visit. We are going to try and get some fun outside stuff done (like sanding and painting the chairs and table, and finish lawn work) and then go to the Toronto Islands. We are also hoping to go out for our 6 year anniversary that weekend.

The last week in May (25th to 28th) will be our first 'normal' week, aside from the short week. It will be nice to get some normal parts back in our May!

The last weekend rounds out our May month. It will be a long but fun one. I'm aiming for some recovery time this last weekend.