Lost Tooth

Princess lost her first tooth a couple of days ago. It was so ready to come out, I told her how to pull it out. She was too nervous and asked me to do it. So I did. It was almost too easy. Monkey we had to talk through the process for an hour before she would let her uncle pull the tooth. Her uncle has older kids so he must know the best way, that is what she thought. So once he got to the house it still took another hour getting all of her special things ready for her to hold onto. Monkey was the tough one, we thought, maybe Princess is a lot tougher then we give her credit.

Me venting

So the month of June is almost over, and I have done lots of hair but I forget the camera. I had a birthday a couple of weeks ago, # 33. I remember thinking that 30 was old, but I don't feel sooo old, just a little. Probably because I need to loose 25 pounds, which is my goal by January when I'm going to FL. with a great friend. Angie is wonderful and so thoughtful, I'm not sure I would know what to do with out her. I think my first move to loose the weight would be to stop drinking Pepsi, well I kind of did that, but I now drink Vanilla Coke. So NO soda. I'll let you know how that goes.
Monkey and Princess only have one week of school left, so summer fun is up to me. Hopefully Sprinklers and bikes will take care of most the fun. A few trips to grandmas and a visit with Aunt Sharkie will fill the rest.

Bruce and I started the girls on chores a couple of weeks ago. Things like refilling the TP in bathrooms, collection of laundry and garbage, simple things to you and me, HUGE to the girls. We have tried a chart before where they get a star for the chores done during the day. It was a disaster if they ran out of time because they chose to do other things. The chart would be destroy and lots of yelling would take place, mostly be Monkey. We have let the girls pick out toys as rewards for doing their chores for one full week, the toys were never earned.
So now we just have a list that needs to be done, no reward.

Well yesterday I ended up packing away a bunch of toys that were left around the house, one of the chores is to put all of their things away at the end of the day. I did give them several days to clean up on their own but nothing happened, so I broke.

hopefully with summer we can refine our checks and balances so that the house can be a little cleaner and my life a whole lot easier. I mean isn't that why we have kids so that they can work for us, ha ha ha.

Ice plants

I planted these ice plants in my front yard last spring. They are so pretty. The ice plant is a drought resistant ground cover. It spreads quickly and is very hardy. I have also seen them in yellow.

Easy up-dos

I hope that you like these up dos. Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear from you. I didn't have time before church to take picures so I had to wait till after. Next time I'll try to do more instuctions with step by step pictures.

For Monkey I started with a zig zag part all the way down. Pulled the hair into side ponies. Once the hair was all smooth, I braided three small sections on each side.

I curled the hair and then clipped up the braided and a few small sections of hair. I used the tiny hair claws. Cute huh?

This "do" looks complex but it was really easy. I sectioned the hair in front into six ponies, then braided each one.

Pull all the hair and the braids in to one back pony tail. Once all of the hair is pulled back take out the ponies at the end of the braids. Curl all of the hair, then take small sections and clip then up. I clipped a curl up between each braid but you can do as many as you like. I left most of the poniy tail down. I used the smallest hair claws that I could find rather than bobbypins. You can use either.