Belly Kisses

Canyon Looses his 1st TOOTH!

After weeks of babying his very loose tooth Canyon finally lost his first tooth. He was wrestling with Trek on the living room floor. He got up and I noticed he had blood stained lips. I checked out his mouth and saw that his tooth was even looser, hanging on by even less thread after a wrestle session with Trek. After pointing out that it wouldn't be hard at all to pull out his loose tooth he agreed.  He wanted to do it himself, in private.  He closed the door to my room where he used our mirror to do the deed. He emerged a few seconds later with a proud face of accomplishment and bloody tooth in his had.  His smith spread from ear to ear.  He spent the rest of the day calling family to tell them the good news and talking about the tooth fairy.  That night we put his tooth in his tooth fairy pillow and hung it on his bed. He woke up to 1$ and blue fairy dust. 
(He keeps hoping Trek will knock out another tooth during a wrestle session-which they have often.)

 

Tank's Birthday

Canyon and Trek have these sweet little round stuffed animals. They have birthdays. Canyon's stuffed Gorilla, Tank's birthday was October 11th.  We celebrated with an Orange Crush cake. Canyon planned the whole party, picked out candles, invited Trek's round stuffed fish, Bubbles and we had a sweet pre-dinner celebration.

 

School Carnival

Face painting from Canyon's school carnival:

 

October Trip to Albuquerque

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hawaiian Vacation: The Last Day

I left my camera back at the house a few of the days (on accident) and I'm probably forgetting to split up a couple of days of activities, but our 9 day trip was wonderful. ON our last day we drove around the island stopping by and orchid shop learning the correct etiquette of and orchid placement. We stopped by Volcano National Park where the boys got to see the smoke from the active volcano, where we learned the stories of Pele the fire goddess (Trek fell in love with her) and walked through a lava tube. We did more swimming with turtles and colorful fish. We finally made our way to a sweet little beach to eat dinner and watch the sunset with the turtles. Our entire trip was magic. We are all so grateful for the beaches, the ocean life, they yummy food and wonderful family that made it possible for us to enjoy ourselves so much. Aloha!

Hawaiian Vacation Part 5: Lava

Despite skull and crossbones signs with the words: DO NOT ENTER, my Dad escorted Gary and I over 2 miles of lava to see a active lava tube flowing into the ocean. I didn't mind. Seeing lava was at the top of my list for our trip to Hawaii. The lava we walked across was from an active flow 20 years earlier. It was rough, but fragile and so beautiful. After we became closer to the lava pouring into the ocean we could feel the warmth under our feet. We perched on top of some rocks and watched the battle between the lava and the water and watched new earth being created. It was incredible. INCREDIBLE.