Look at that Grin!

Our little boy doesn't look so little anymore.  After some rough housing with Kari resulted in an elbow to the mouth, Bryce's front tooth became significantly wigglier.  After a lot of prodding and encouragement from Daddy (and a good solid tug), out came that front tooth!  While Bryce claims the other front tooth is also loose, I doubt he's going to let Daddy get anywhere near that tooth anytime soon!

Our good friend and neighbor, Lori, was over that night to celebrate.

Halloween 2015

So Halloween got off to a scary start this year when our little man said he wasn’t feeling great. We sent him up to our room to watch some TV and lay down. Next thing you know he was crying because he threw up in the bed. Sufficed to say this is an easier clean up when he’s in HIS bed and not ours.

Anyway, he only had a waffle to eat that day so we’re still unsure what caused it, but he was all but out of it the majority of the day. Meanwhile this altered our plans to have us all at the neighborhood Halloween party down the street at Clawsons. Instead, Kevin stayed home with Bryce and the girls went to the gathering.

Eventually, though, Bryce said he didn’t want to stay sheltered anymore and wanted to get his own candy. So we let him go down the street with the crew and get just enough sugary treats to get him smiling again. Soon after returning home and helping hand out some treats to kids that visited our house, he was out. Literally was asleep by 7:30 and slept in until 8:30 the next day.

Kari thoroughly enjoyed her experience as a Zebra. She came home with a ridiculous amount of candy and promptly went to the basement to sort it all out on the floor.

Aw, coconuts!

A couple of weeks ago while I was at the grocery store I came across a display of coconuts.  I picked one up after catching a rerun of Tom Hanks in Castaway desperately trying to crack open a coconut for only a few tablespoons of the precious milk and thought this might be an interesting experiment at home.

The kids were excited to see a real coconut.  From their limited experiences, coconut comes in the sweetened and shaved variety in labeled plastic bags from Aunt Laura's bulk food store.  This particular coconut was prepped for rookies- it was scored all the way around and came with instructions.

The kids quickly discovered that raw coconut is nothing like the sweet processed stuff on the grocery store shelves:

Although, I bet if they were on a stranded island, drinking the coconut milk might be a little more appetizing.  

So, while this was a fun little experiment, I think these kiddos will choose to remain stateside and drink their milk from plastic gallon jugs.