May the people in your life always know how much they mean to you.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
my girl, the tooth fairy, and a memory
P has been losing teeth like a champ since she was four years old. It started early with her, and I was not prepared, so I subsequently had not prepared her. Unbeknownst to me, she had two bottom teeth loose just after she had turned four. She bit into a graham cracker and comes to me, "my teeth are hurting." I took a feel and realized they were loose, and just casually made the statement, "oh, you are going to lose those teeth." Wrong thing to say to a little girl who may or may not be one of the most dramatic little girls of all time. All out panic ensued. She busts out crying and runs to her room. Bless her, she heard, "oh, you are going to lose those teeth" and in her little mind thought her teeth were going to fall out and she would have a mouth full of gums and no teeth! She had no idea there was such a thing as baby teeth, and that they fall out, and then you get permanent teeth. Mom of the year here people.
It took some explaining but once the tooth fairy was introduced, and then that fact that the tooth fairy leaves you money when you leave her your pulled tooth--she was totally on board! Lets just be honest, she is her mother's child, and there just isn't much that a little dough rae can't make all better.
Well, to this point she has lost 11 teeth. That's right 11. Some of those have made it under the pillow, some lost, and yes, some even swallowed. For the ones that were not able to make it under the pillow, she has been known to draw a picture of them with a note explaining what had happened for the tooth fairy. Well, a couple of days ago I was cleaning out some drawers and came across one of her notes to the TF. This is not a note to the tooth fairy after she had lost a tooth, but just a simple inquiry from a 6 year old with a few very important questions.
It reads (with some minor, and in some cases major, spelling adjustments):
Dear Tooth Fairy,
I lost 3 teeth but I did not get to give them to you. Can you give me money for them? Since then I haven't lost any teeth for a long time. Can you tell me why that is? Thank you.
Sincerely,
Peyton Alexander
P.S. What is your favorite color and do you lose teeth?
Oh my word, I love it! This is so P. She is a justice seeker from the word go, and my girl loves herself some cash! But our tooth fairy is CHEAP, and if there is no tooth, then there is no cash. It's an unfortunate reality at the Alexander casa.
Boy do I love this kid! She keeps us laughing, and I am grateful for these memories of her and her little personality that I will have for years to come.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Louisville and TMac
A few weeks ago my friend Ashley scored six Toby Mac tickets for his winter wonder slam tour. There is a lady that goes to our church that has a connection with Toby and his band, so we got the hook-up for six tickets with pre-show meet-n-greet passes. Oh my word, Exciting!
We love us some Toby as do our hubbies and our girls. So we decided to make it a surprise for the girls and a little get-a-way for the six of us. We made the plan to not tell the girls until we were on our way to Lousiville. Do you think they were surprised?
We had our hotel booked, our tickets/passess, and every song Toby has ever mixed or thought about mixing on our ipods, and we were ready to roll!
Through an unfortunate turn of events we were not able to have our camera in the arena for the meet-n-greet. (Can I just say, that does not make for a happy Ryan) But fortunately a nice lady behind us took our pic when we got to meet Toby. Not the greatest of pics but hey, it's the best we've got, and we are just grateful to have one!
Ashley had also gotten two copies of an old, glossy press release photo of Toby for him to sign for them. We gave him a hard time about the photo's that we had for him to sign, because we had heard that he hated those pictures back when they were taken. Funny! And can I just say he was just as nice and kind in person as you would hope him to be. Ash used to work at Forefront years ago, and he remembered her! Pretty impressive for a guy that sees thousands of faces every year!
I cannot even tell you how excited these two 8 year olds (and 30 something year olds) were. Jonas brothers who? And Toby did not disappoint. Great concert! And even better to get to be there with our girls!
After the concert we got some dinner at the dive, aka Waffle House. Not my first choice for a place to eat or even my 49th choice, but I took one for the team.
The next day we had a little time to kill before heading home so we took the kids to a children's museum. We had free admission and thought we would take advantage while we had the chance.
We are not the kind of parents that will let our kids get into over-the-top infatuation with boy bands or really musicians of any kind. There is only One in our life who is worthy of worship and praise. But, on the same hand, we love music and it is a huge part of our family and our lives. We are not naive enough to believe nor do we require that all music that we listen to be 'Christian' music, but for right now we are very grateful that P's current music and musician of choice is someone that loves Jesus and is a great role model for kids. And what a time we had! We made it home with some great memories and an autographed glossy of Toby! Does it get any better? Not for P it doesn't.
We love us some Toby as do our hubbies and our girls. So we decided to make it a surprise for the girls and a little get-a-way for the six of us. We made the plan to not tell the girls until we were on our way to Lousiville. Do you think they were surprised?
We had our hotel booked, our tickets/passess, and every song Toby has ever mixed or thought about mixing on our ipods, and we were ready to roll!
Through an unfortunate turn of events we were not able to have our camera in the arena for the meet-n-greet. (Can I just say, that does not make for a happy Ryan) But fortunately a nice lady behind us took our pic when we got to meet Toby. Not the greatest of pics but hey, it's the best we've got, and we are just grateful to have one!
Ashley had also gotten two copies of an old, glossy press release photo of Toby for him to sign for them. We gave him a hard time about the photo's that we had for him to sign, because we had heard that he hated those pictures back when they were taken. Funny! And can I just say he was just as nice and kind in person as you would hope him to be. Ash used to work at Forefront years ago, and he remembered her! Pretty impressive for a guy that sees thousands of faces every year!
I cannot even tell you how excited these two 8 year olds (and 30 something year olds) were. Jonas brothers who? And Toby did not disappoint. Great concert! And even better to get to be there with our girls!
After the concert we got some dinner at the dive, aka Waffle House. Not my first choice for a place to eat or even my 49th choice, but I took one for the team.
The next day we had a little time to kill before heading home so we took the kids to a children's museum. We had free admission and thought we would take advantage while we had the chance.
We are not the kind of parents that will let our kids get into over-the-top infatuation with boy bands or really musicians of any kind. There is only One in our life who is worthy of worship and praise. But, on the same hand, we love music and it is a huge part of our family and our lives. We are not naive enough to believe nor do we require that all music that we listen to be 'Christian' music, but for right now we are very grateful that P's current music and musician of choice is someone that loves Jesus and is a great role model for kids. And what a time we had! We made it home with some great memories and an autographed glossy of Toby! Does it get any better? Not for P it doesn't.
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