I had the week off of work so I got to do some fun things.

Like...

Going bowling with some old farts.

Camping in the back yard

Teaching Max some tricks.

Bike rides

Claire's school performance

Even go to do some rock climbing.  Notice there are no ropes.  They called it boldering.  I called it rock climbing in a building that wasn't quite tall enough.

 That being said, Ashleigh was still very, very afraid.

On a sad note, I took Claire and Lauren ice skating only to relize that I'm not super man.  It's too hard to take two kids ice skating alone.  Claire fell and hit her face. :(

Claire had a birthday.  She's now 6 years old.

Her fun singing card from Grandma Lloyd

She got to bring one friend to Pojos.  She choose Kate.

max and lolo got to come and have fun too.

   Mom had fun too. 

Claire's hair flailing in the air after mom ramed her.

Claire's birthday cupcake.  Thanks Ian for putting your hand in the pircture. :)

Grandma furnished the pinata.  Max almost broke it.

 Birthday umbrella

and a cool canvas.

We love you so much Claire.  You are the sweetest 6 year old girl in the whole wide world!

smile

Look what happened to Claire over the past week. Isn't she so cute without her front teeth? She went from a mouth full of teeth, to a toothless smile. I love it when kids lose both front teeth at the same time. I think it is so cute. Cory disagrees... he thinks it's a little too hillbilly. Believe me, she is cute now, just wait till those big teeth come in. Genetics are not on her side, but we might as well embrace it.... so lets all say it together, "Bring on the awkward years!"

Some things to remember about her losing her front teeth: Mom ended up pulling both out. Even when they are hanging by a thread Dad still doesn't think they are ready to come out. :) Believe it or not, the tooth fairy didn't come the first night after her tooth came out. Claire realized that it was because she had her tooth on the white part of the sheet which made the tooth camouflaged. We also talked about how her room was messy and tooth fairies, or anyone really, wouldn't like to come into a room like that, so she made sure that her room was super clean the next night. The tooth fairy  seemed to make it that night. The night before Valentines day, Claire lost her 2nd front tooth. The tooth fairy almost forgot again! She woke up at 5:45am with a dream about Claire's front tooth and flapped her fairy wings as fast as she could to pick up the tooth and leave behind a few coins. phew!