First lost tooth

One of the exciting events in our house over the past month has been Drew losing teeth.  Yes, teeth plural!  We noted first that he had a loose tooth in his lower set of teeth and he proceeded to wiggle it with his tongue and his fingers.  Then one morning after being good with breakfast and asking to have a piece of candy, we gave him some Laffy Taffy.  After he finished it, Jana looked closely at Drew and said, "Buddy, where is your tooth?"  Drew looked startled and quickly realized it was gone.  He swallowed it!  Not willing to do any sort of eventual hunt for this momentous first lost tooth, we instead had Drew draw a picture of it.

We've debated participating in myths like Santa Claus and now we had the same debate with the Tooth Fairy.  Drew quickly settled the debate though.  When we asked him if he wanted to put the drawing under his pillow to see if the tooth fairy would bring him something, he replied, "Actually, I don't think the tooth fairy is a real person.  I think it's mom and dad.  I don't BELIEVE in the tooth fairy."  Not wanting to lie to him, we gave in.  Although, Drew did still put the drawing under his pillow and he did still get $1.

Drew's second lost tooth was much less eventful, particularly for Jana and I because it happened while we were out of town and Drew and Kate were staying with Grandma Sue and Grandpa Bill.  That tooth was saved and Drew now keeps it on his dresser (although he still managed to snag $1 for that one too).  Below is a picture of our toothless boy.

While Drew was busy losing teeth, Jana and I were on a fun just-the-two-of-us trip up north.  We went up north to go snowshoeing.  One problem though . . . there was almost no snow.  We made the best of it though and did some great hiking and had a great time enjoying the outdoors.  For this particular hike, it was rather chilly despite there being little snow.

Our hike took us near Lake Michigan and we had fun checking out the ice buildup near the shore.

We did manage to find some snow that hadn't melted and were able to snowshoe one day.  The irony of our trip was that while we were gone, Lansing got hit with a major snowstorm that dumped over 10" of snow!  It missed the area where we were and we arrived home to dig out our driveway. 

One final picture of Drew is below.  When he smiles normally, you can hardly see his missing teeth.  Kate will be prominently featured in the next post.