Two Front Teeth

Today Gavin lost both of his top front teeth. It didn't happen in the traditional way of spending days wiggling until they finally worked themselves out. Nope, we went to the dentist and he has his first ever dental procedure and they pulled both. Don't worry, no cavities. Here is how it went down.

When Gavin was about 4 we had noticed that one of his front teeth looked a bit off color. At his next dental cleaning I asked the dentist to take a look at it and he told me it was bruised. Probably from a fall in the months or year before, but nothing to worry about since it was a baby tooth and would eventually fall out. They watched it the last couple of years at his exams and still nothing to worry about, Until...

Last week Gav tripped running up the porch stairs and smacked his mouth on the top cement stairs. Plenty of crying, plenty of blood, fat lip, and suddenly the bruised tooth started to look a much darker color and like perhaps it was chipped. I waited a few days and made an appt. Turns out that the bruised tooth had been damaged in the fall and was starting an infection. So the dentist pulled it.

The tooth next to the damaged one was in good shape, but since the x-ray showed that its root was pretty much gone and both the big teeth are in good shape and ready to come in, they decided to pull both so that the new ones will come in straight and at the same time as they are apparently intended to do. Gav was such a brave trooper, he didn't complain or whine at all when they numbed him up. He barely flinch with the giant needle poking him in the mouth.

They gave him it cutest little wooden tooth shaped box to keep the teeth in so he has written a note to the Tooth Fairy asking to keep the teeth and the box and all are now safely under his pillow.

This is the photo he wanted me to take- His vampire look. :-) Too bad you can't really see the missing teeth in the photo, but it is cute anyway.

Happy Easter

We had a great Easter with plenty of chocolate and eggs and family time. Just the way we like it. We even cooked up a delicious dinner. It was a great day.

Spring break with some Cardons

We also had the fun of having Grandma and Papa Cardon come to Utah during spring break. Rachel and Tatum came too. It was our first time meeting Tatum, and she is sure cute. Unfortunately when we were around, I am not sure she got as much rest as she would have liked. Wyatt and Jaren kept trying to wake her up, or sometimes just running around being themselves and coming close to disturbing her sleep then too. Hopefully she will forgive us.

I was also very bad about remembering the camera when we got together, and only took it with me one night. Here are a few fun shots from our fun.

Jaren and Wyatt spent most of their time trying to get Papa to wrestle with them or just generally rough house and be crazy. He was a great participant for them and hopefully he didn't end up too beat up in the process.

Grandma and Rachel played plenty of games with the kids and of course set up the regular Grandma treasure hunts that the boys always look forward to.

Wyatt and Papa having some puppy chow after a crazy wrestling match.

There was also a super fun glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt one night and Papa and Grandma came to babysit at our house while Caleb and I were both working one night. I didn't get any great shots of either of these, because I was either at work, or hadn't remembered the camera. Apparently I need to get refocused on capturing out photo memories, but I am always grateful for the fun we have together and the memories the kids are making with their cousins and all of the extended family. It was fun spring break.

Spring Break with the Turleys

For the first weekend of spring break, the Turleys came up from Las Vegas to hang out with us. We had a lot of fun playing and hanging out. They even enjoy a nice spring snow storm on Sunday. Monday we headed out to Temple Square. It was actually quite freezing that day, even though it looked beautiful.

A group of smiley cousins. These four were good enough to pose for me. (This obviously wasn't everyone that came, but I wasn't the best about remembering the camera for most things.)

We spent most of our morning at the Church Art and History Museum. There was plenty to see and when Wyatt started to get too crazy for other people to enjoy themselves, we headed to the awesome Children's Exhibit.

Cheyenne, Morgan and Miran with an Angel Moroni statue that used to be at the Washington DC visitors center. (Miran wasn't actually unhappy to be there, she just tries her best to look that way when a camera comes out.)

Henry and Wyatt driving off their cargo.

Miran trying out the cultural dance scene in the childrens exhibit.

Looks like it would be rough for these 3 to get the handcart across the plains alone. Especially considering that these bags were only full of fluff and not actual cargo.

The little kids in the ship bunk beds, Miran has on her sad pioneer stuck on a boat face.

We had a really fun visit and hope that even though it was chilly, the Turleys now realize that they won't freeze to death when they come to visit us.

Spring Time

We have been having lots of spring time fun around here.

Gavin's grass-head man from school. I was pretty impressed with the detail of his face, and the awesome hair do certainly helps out. Things are starting to grow. Hooray.

We have been spending plenty of time outside, which is easily Wyatt's favorite place to be. Nothing like spreading out a blanket and having a crunchy apple.

This guy is just getting so big, it is crazy to watch.

And speaking of growing, my belly seems to be doing quite a bit of it too. Just a couple of shots of everyone looking good before church last week.

What a great looking bunch.