January?

I kinda blew it for January.

I jumped straight from Christmas to, like, the Super Bowl on Feb. 1st.

There WAS stuff that happened in January.

There's a PTA national Arts contest called Reflections.  Katie entered a piece and it was displayed at our school district celebration along with other entries from the district.  She was so proud.

And this happened.....

Mikey lost his first tooth!!!!

It had been loose for a while, but not so loose that it was coming out any time soon.

And then, one Friday morning, Mikey was upstairs playing.

Play abruptly stopped for a visit to the bathroom.

The sink ran for an exorbitant amount of time.

Next thing I know, he walked down the stairs with a sad look on his face and then broke into tears.

He opened his mouth and pointed at his now missing tooth.

I was excited, but he was clearly not.  It hurt a lot, he told me.

After a big question with no answers session, I finally got what had happened.

There was this small Lego piece, you see, stuck to a big Lego board.....

He couldn't get the small piece off the board and decided to use his teeth to pry it loose.

Annnnnd, his tooth popped out.

I found the tooth on the floor of Katie's room right next to the lego board.

After a little TLC, all was good.

I'm not sure what this is about.

The kids wanted to sleep in laundry baskets one night.

For Mikey, it lasted about one book and then he was up in his bed.

 
Katie lasted a little longer, but also decided beds were more comfortable than laundry baskets.

The end of January was spent working on Science Fair projects.

Katie used Ralph for an experiment.

You'll have to wait until the next entry to see what her project was.

Mikey did a project too.

It was also warm (and dry) enough to break out the Trail-a-Bike and head on out to the park to play.

Katie and Mikey found an awesome climbing tree at the park and climbed up pretty far.

They climbed up so far that Mikey needed to be rescued.

Katie got to ride the Trail-a-bike too.

I guess all the park action was too much and Mikey ended up getting pretty sick and going to the Urgent Care center at about 2am in the morning.  Again.

My kids like to get really sick in the middle of the night.

He was actually doing really good in this picture.  So good, in fact, that the doctor sent us home with the all clear.

An hour after we got home he began throwing up every hour or so.

Good times.