It's about time!!!

Mason finally lost his front tooth!  It had been loose for the longest time!  At least six months.  He was starting to get a big gap in his teeth, and I was getting worried.  He wouldn't let anyone touch it, and was afraid to even go near Jordan.  Jordan wanted to pull that tooth out so bad!  He finally got his chance on Sunday, while were at his parents house.   Jordan was wiggling Mason's tooth, and it came out, and Mason's didn't know it.  He ran away from his dad screaming, "Don't touch my tooth!!!!"  He was really excited to find his tooth was really in Jordan's hand.  And he's loved showing off his big, cute toothless smile. :)

Before

After

Video of Vance

I got this Video of Vance the other day, and thought I'd post it.  It just shows a bunch of his personality.  It shows his very cute side, to his very stubborn, everything belongs to me side.  

 Vance loves to play this guitar.  I need to get a good video of him really rocking out with it.  I think he might be a rock star when he grows up!  He was playing with it the other day when Miles started doing the chicken dance.  So Vance made up his own chicken song.  

 

Miles is Five!!!

Yesterday was Miles' fifth birthday!  To celebrate, we went to Red Robin for dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Miller, and Aunt Lindsey.  Then we all went to our house for presents and cake.  

This is the Star Wars helmet Lindsey gave Miles

Miles is really into dinosaurs this year, so I made a dinosaur cake.  The above picture is the "before" picture.  I was so happy with how the cake turned out, so I put it on the table to take some pictures.  Then I left it there so I could finish cleaning the house.  As I was vacuuming the dining room, I didn't pay attention to the vacuum cord, and it went up on the table, and totally swiped the cake from the neck up!  I was devastated!!!  

After the face-altering accident.  Jordan managed to fix it up a bit.  

Miles' Birthday Party

I decided to do a birthday party for Miles, and I let him pick out his own theme.  He picked Star Wars, which surprised me, because he has never seen it, and doesn't even really know anything about it.  But, it turned out to be a lot of fun!

I made each of the kids a Jedi costume.  

We played a few Star Wars games.  We did musical chairs with Star Wars  music.  We played Pin the Control Panel on Darth Vader.  We searched for moon rocks.  For those, I put candy in tin foil, and hid them all over the room.  Thanks Jen for the idea!!  We also played Duck, Duck, Goose, and a clothes pin game(thanks Deanne!).

The party guests.  Thanks Deanne and Melissa for all your help!

I need ideas!

I am having a birthday party for Miles, and I'm looking for some fun games that will entertain five year olds.  Any ideas?

(The theme of the party is Star Wars)

Why we avoid princess movies

A couple months ago I DVR'ed the Disney version of the Three Musketeers.  The boys, especiallyVance, love it.  I usually let them watch it while I shower.  Because it was recorded off TV, they have to watch the commercials.  One of the commercials is for the Sleeping Beauty DVD.  They play a big portion of the "Once upon a dream song," with the video of princess Aurora frolicking and singing in the woods with the forest animals.

Yesterday I bathed the boys, then went to get them dressed.  Vance took his towel, and draped it over his body like a flowing gown, then to my horror declared, "I'm a princess." Then he proceeded to sing the once upon a dream song!  Not his proudest moment. :) 

Mason also once made the princess declaration when I let him watch Cinderella when he was younger(much younger!).  Since then, there  has been a strict ban on princess movies in our home.  I am not raising any princesses here!

Jumpin' Jax

To get the kids out of the house, I took Miles and Vance to a place in Lansing called Jumpin' Jax.  It is a big warehouse with a bunch of inflatable bounce houses.  We went with a few friends from church.  The kids had a GREAT time!  I took a bunch of pictures, but only a few turned out because the kids were too busy moving.  

Vance was really timid at first, and refused to go in any of the inflatables.  I was afraid that I had paid six dollars for him to play with toys.  Here he is playing with his good friend Eve.

Eventually he warmed up to the idea, and had a great time!

Miles was so funny on the slides.  He couldn't just go down them.  He had to get a big bouncing start before he would catapult down.