First Tooth Fairy Visit!

Our week started out with a first for our family.  Our first tooth came out on Monday night!  Lindy has had two loose front teeth (and a permanent tooth growing in behind one of them) for a week or so.  She wiggled and wiggled and it was practically just hanging on.  I finally asked her if I could pull it and she said yes.  It was so hard to get a hold of that tiny little tooth but I did and I pulled and it came out!  I can’t believe my baby girl lost a tooth.  I don’t know how this is happening.  I swear I just gave birth to them last week?!?!  She was pretty excited to have a ‘window’ in her mouth.  They have been reading a book lately where they call a missing tooth a window in your mouth.  We lost the tooth three times before we finally got it wrapped up in a wash cloth and under her pillow. 

I have always seen the cute little tooth fairy pillows and I guess I thought I had time.  I need to get some ordered before too many more fall out! 

She woke up Tuesday morning and they were so excited to check under her pillow.  She pulled out a dollar bill and she acted like she had won the lottery!  It was pretty funny.  Of course Will said, “I wish my tooth would come out!”  The tooth fairy also left Lindy a certificate for losing her first tooth.  We asked Lindy what she wanted to do with her dollar and she said put it in her piggy bank.  We told her she could spend it at a store if she wanted and she still said she wanted to put it in her piggy bank.  A girl after my own heart!  ha!  

She was so excited to go to school and show her teacher and her friends.  We have another loose one that will be out in a matter of days.  Maybe I’ll let Drew pull this one out!

Wednesday the kids had a friend over after school.  Drew picked them all up from school and brought them home.  They were so excited that he came home with them.  He was here a couple hours before his grandmother picked him up.  They had a blast with him.  He is in Lindy’s class at school and their gymnastics class as well.  Will likes playing with him too. 

That afternoon Drew picked me up from work at 4:30pm and we headed straight to Mooresville.  My parents finally decided their retirement location would be in NC.  They put an offer on a lot right near Lake Norman when they were here in April and they closed on the lot on Wednesday.  My dad had come down to meet with two builders they are talking to.  We picked him up at his hotel and he rode us out to the lot.  It’s not lake front but it’s pretty close.  They get a deeded boat slip with the house.  The slip is about 75 yards down the road.  The kids thought it was pretty neat to see the lake.  I hobbled down to check it out.  We ate dinner with my dad, dropped him off at the hotel, changed the kids into pjs, and headed home.  Glad we changed the kids because they both fell asleep. 

Thursday I got home from work and my dad was there with a bucket of chicken for dinner.  Score!  We ate dinner and then headed to Will’s tee ball game.  Will did awesome again!  He hit it from the assistant coach pitching all three times!!   So exciting!  After the game my dad left to start the drive back to Ohio and we headed home for bedtime.

Saturday was a busy day for us.  We got up and did some cooking for a potluck lunch we were having.  We headed to Will’s tee ball game at 10am.  GrandBob and Suzette came to watch.  He did great again!  He hit two out of three pitches from the coach and ended up hitting one off the tee.  He is pretty excited to be hitting the ball like the other kids!  So much for tee ball!  We left the ball field and headed straight down to a park in Winston for the 3rd Annual Banister Family Reunion.  The only problem was that it was pouring.  Thankfully we did have a shelter reserved so we all ate under the shelter and the rain stopped.  The crowd was happy to get the kick ball game in.  The wet grass added a new element to the game this year.  I didn’t get to play, for the first time ever, because of my foot.  I took pictures from the sidelines.  Will played for the first time ever.  He stood right next to Bob while he was pitching and he pitched to some of the other kids playing.  He was loving life!  The other couple years he hasn’t been interested at all.   After the reunion, Mimo, Aunt Anna, and Brian came back to our house.  Aunt Anna and Brian stayed a couple hours and then headed home.  Drew and I headed out to dinner with Katie and Kris.  We had a good time but we were both so tired.  It stinks getting old! 

Today we had church and the kids sang and played bells in church.  It was a rough morning for Lindy.  During one of the songs they stomp their feet.  They stand up on this 1 foot platform.  She was really getting into it and I kept thinking she is going to fall off.  Sure enough, she fell off.  Her choir director ran to get her and then handed her to me after I had hobbled up there.  She cried for a few seconds and then headed back up.  Then they got bells and Lindy was next to Will while they were ringing.  Will is kind of a wild (but good) bell ringer.  I missed it but all of a sudden she is crying and running down off the platform to me, pointing at her eyebrow.  Apparently Will knocked her with his bell.  She wanted to go back after she was done crying and I told her no that she was done for the day.   Lynn took us to lunch and then headed home to a sick puppy.  I was able to get a little house work done while she played with the kids for a bit. 

My foot is doing better.  I didn’t feel good at the beginning of the week.  Had little appetite and just felt blah.  I was able to start getting it wet and therefore it does look better.  I went to the doctor on Friday and she said it looked good so far.  I was hoping she would tell me I didn’t need to bandage it so much and could stop wearing the boot but she didn’t.  Instead she said to wear it 1-2 more weeks.  Boo.  I am very nervous about stubbing it or something dropping on it.  Will did just barely knock it today and it hurt.  I’m hobbling faster each day.   I had been telling Drew I thought I had some kind of blood blister on the bottom that is preventing me from putting pressure on it and the doctor confirmed it.  She said my toe is probably full of blood.  Still praying it doesn’t get any kind of infection in it.  I’m being super careful when I change the bandages so hopefully it will heal well.

Until next week…

One tooth out – 19 more to go!Tiniest tooth you ever did see!Tucked in safe under the pillow.Next morning checking out what is under the pillow now.Score!So excited to find a dollar!!Putting it in her piggy bank like a good girl.Her certificate the tooth fairy left.Super cool lighting in this picture!Checking out the boat slip.  Proud owner of a lot and boat slip!Cutest ball player EVER!Good Hit Buddy!I made cupcakes for the tee ball snack and these two asked for the beaters.  At the family reunion.  Lindy is into huddling these days.Will, Bob’s assistant pitcher!Lindy got a turn kicking and running to first base!Molly was a huge help playing with Lindy on Saturday.  She taught her to pinkie promise and now we’ve done a lot of it!The winning kick ball team!Mimo, Lindy and Aunt Anna.Mimo and her grand daughters!Lindy and MollyThe whole gang!The trouble makers.Me and Kelsey – one of my fave cousins!Today before church with Mimo.He was one of those guys who plays the guitar, drums, and harmonica at the same time.  She was obsessed with the mic during the opening songs.  This was right before she fell off.

Crushed

All our weekend plans – and my big toe – are crushed.  Sigh.

I’ll leave you hanging and start with the beginning of the week.  We started off the week with rain and a cancelled t-ball game.  Lindy also had PT on Monday and she did really well.  Jill said she is looking great in her low brace.  They practiced walking down the stairs – without hanging on to anything.  I guess she needs to know how, but man I was nervous.  After Will fell all the way down the steps I was so scared about her falling.  Jill was directly in front of her but it still made me nervous.  She actually did really awesome but I didn’t like watching it!

Monday night Lindy told us her mouth hurt.  She went to Drew and said, “AHHHH” and Drew looked in her mouth.  He said, “There’s a tooth back there!”  She came to me and I saw one of her bottom permanent teeth is already through the gum.  I was shocked to see it!  Then I wiggled her lower bottom teeth and they are both loose!!!  Then I started wiggling Will’s and one of his top teeth is a bit loose.  I was seriously in shock that evening.  I really don’t know how they are old enough to be losing teeth.  Lindy has spent a good bit of time wiggling this week but they haven’t come out yet.  One is looser than the other.  I think she may be a great orthodontic case in the future as I have no idea how her permanent teeth will all fit in her mouth.  The one coming in is the size of two of her baby teeth.  Will was excited to hear Lindy’s teeth were loose and told her, “The tooth fairy will come and leave a dime!”  That’s right, buddy, she’ll leave a dime!!

Tuesday Bob saved the day for us.  He came up and got the kids from school, took them to gymnastics, for frozen yogurt, played with them all afternoon, and then took the kids and me to dinner!  Drew was out of town all day and Bob filled in.  The kids had a blast with him and we really appreciated it. 

Thursday Drew took the kids to the park and Lindy fell off the swing and scraped her eyebrow up.  She also had a mark where her glasses must have pushed into her face.  Thank goodness her glasses didn’t break!  He said she didn’t cry long and went back to playing soon after.  That girl is tough.

Friday is where things got really interesting.  Remember these things?  We made 60 tent weights a year ago to hold down the pop-up tents we use at all the March for Babies walks. They are PVC pipes filled with concrete.  They each weigh about 40lbs.  Friday afternoon we were loading up the van for our last March for Babies of the spring and a bunch of them rolled off a dolly – onto my big toe.  I hobbled around at first like I had stubbed my toe and then I looked down.  My toe was pouring blood and my toe nail was almost off.  I hobbled to the grass and sat and my coworker wrapped up my foot to try and stop the bleeding.  I don’t know how I didn’t pass out.  I had every sensation leading up to it but I fought it.  Drew ran the kids to his brother’s house and came and got me and we headed to the ER.  We went to the one in the next town over and had no waiting time whatsoever.  They gave me a tetanus shot and morphine and took an x-ray.  Nothing was broken – amazingly!  Then the doctor was ready to get to work.  He gave me some numbing shots in my toe and wow oh wow did they hurt.  He eventually got it all numb and then he ended up taking my toenail off, giving me four stitches on the nailbed, and then suturing my toenail back on!  I didn’t watch.  He said it was the best chance of a new toenail growing in.  On the way out of the ER I started getting sick.  As in throwing up.  I ended up getting sick the rest of the night – until 11pm.  I’m guessing that the morphine didn’t settle well.  I always get sick off of anesthesia and apparently it’s the same with morphine.  Anytime I moved I threw up.  That got really old that evening.  I had a pretty bad evening of sleep and I laid around all day Saturday. 

Drew took the kids to Will’s tee ball game where Will had not one, not two, but three hits from the coach pitching it to him!!!!!!  Awesome!  I hate a missed them.  Will was pretty excited when he got home!  Drew had to run to the hospital to see a church member and Bob and Ed stopped by.  They waited until Drew got home and then ran him down to the office to get our other car.  I did nothing all day. 

Yesterday was our 11th Wedding Anniversary and we didn’t get to do anything.  Unless you count Drew waiting on me hand and foot.  He has been wonderful with this whole thing.  I know he is tired of taking care of everyone but he’s doing an awesome job.  He did run out and get us dinner from an Italian restaurant but I ate by myself on the couch while he ate with the kids at the table.  Romantic, huh?!

I took a pain pill last night and thankfully got a great night of sleep.  I also took a bath this morning – foot hanging out of the tub – but I feel like a new person.  I moved to the couch and caught up on my Glee on DVR while the kids and Drew went to church this morning.  A fun way to spend Mother’s Day, right?  The kids and Drew did get me some gifts.  They each made something for me at school.  Will’s teacher did a silhouette of him which is really neat.  Lindy made a plate for me with her handprint as a flower.  They were both proud of their gifts.  Drew and the kids also got me a gift card to go shopping.   The shopping gods are against me though (I had planned to go over Easter and everyone was puking and we had planned to go Friday night and instead we were at the ER) so I hope I eventually get to use it! 

So anyway – hopefully my toe will heal up okay and not cause any problems.  I haven’t put any pressure on it so I’m not sure when I’ll be up and walking on it.  We have to change the bandages tonight.  I’m a little afraid to see it! 

Hopefully your week has been better than mine! 

One boo boo from earlier in the week when she fell and hit the bat cave.  Worried Drew a bit because she was pointing to her shunt.  Her eyebrow and cheek from falling at the park.  Rough week for the girl!My two nerds.  They were looking at maps on the computer one night before bed.Will asked Drew to take some pictures for me since I couldn’t go!  There he is up to bat!His coach congratulating him on a hit.  He’s on 1st!Lindy was tip-toeing by me so she wouldn’t hit my foot.Lindy with her present to me!A lovely card with a cute picture of her inside.Her handprint flower!Will with his card for me.His cool silhouette!Me and my babes on Mother’s Day.My poor foot.  Poor, poor toes.