The Tooth Fairy?

So as most of you already know, I'm quite anti-Santa. It all stems from me working as "Santa's Helper" at the Esplanade mall back in the day. Santa was a total perv. He was just so gross and would always be like, "Why don't you come sit on my lap?!" and we'd be like, "Shut up Santa." He convinced me that there were plenty other bad Santas or pervy Santas. I never talk about Santa at Christmas time if I can avoid it and we have no Santa decore. But Chloe is no dope and her friends talked about him all the time. She's growing up and this year asked me if she could go talk to him one day while we were walking by and I didn't have the heart to not let her. I told her I wasn't going to "help" her so if she wanted to talk to him, she'd have to do it by herself. I was certain this would have deterred her since she is quite shy with most adults but she just marched right up to him and told him she wanted either a pegasus pony or a unicorn pony with a magnet foot. "Please no normal ponies because my mom says I have too many of those. " Then she explained the difference between a pegasus and a unicorn, asked if she could have a candy cane and we were on our merry way. Sadly, no pegasus or unicorn appeared. Santa did this whole, "If I can't find those, I'll have to bring underwear and socks..." which I thought was pretty lame but probably a good line if you're "Santa". I'm sure she noticed but hasn't said anything. Anyway, this is a really long intro to the following.

For some reason the idea of the Tooth Fairy doesn't bother me at all. In fact, I think it is quite fun. She is a bit of a trippy idea--I mean what is she supposed to do with all those teeth?! And yeah Santa sneaks into your house but this fairy chick sneaks right into your room, worse, right by your head and reaches under your pillow! Why aren't more people freaked out by this idea? [Side note: my little brother used to think a troll was going to come into his room and suffocate him. We saw this freaky show on t.v. (some "short" movie with Drew Barrymore but as a child) Where were my parents changing the channel? He would sometimes write things on his mirror with crayon and then say the troll did it.] The reason I'm bringing it up is because Chloe has TWO loose teeth. More than that, she has two adult teeth already here (only one at the time of the photo) and the two baby teeth are still here too. She's a snaggletooth. See for yourself.

Now let's see if I can answer a few of your obvious questions:

• Yes, I have only one nail painted. So w.t. I know. It is now immortalized forever. I didn't have time to finish--hardly ever do but I love having my nails painted.
• Yes, that is a tear running down her face. I can't say that I had the best parental reaction to seeing this tooth. I feaked out. Then I showed Greg and he kind of freaked out.
  
• Yes, I have heard of this happening to other kids (since then. Before then, no.).
  
• Yes, it is weird.
• Yes she is young to already be losing her teeth. (But again, not unheard of and she will be 5 in April.)
  
• No, there is nothing to worry about unless the baby teeth don't come out on there own at which point we'd have to have a dentist remove them. (I did a video consultation with my dentist--that's how I know that. My dentist is my brother in law.)
• No, there is no free dental in Canada. Yes, free health insurance, no free dental. No free optical.
  
• Yes, she is excited (and scared) and she's been bragging to all the other kids her age about how she is more grown up than they are.
• Yes, we've been reading a ton of books from the library and I've been amazed at how many times biting into an apple is mentioned. I liked the one when the kid bit into a marshmellow and his tooth stuck.
  

Now my turn for some questions.

How do you do the tooth fairy? How much money does the tooth fairy give these days (does it keep increasing like babysitting and gas)? Do you have any fun ideas of things we can do to make this memorable or fun? Any tips on getting the tooth out any faster? What do you do with the tooth that the "fairy" has taken? Do you save it? (side note: when my sister was little, she had this freaky tooth growing up like towards her nose and she had to get it removed. After the surgery, the doctor gave her her tooth is this plastic tooth shaped necklace with a flip top lid. I was so jealous. I was also so excited to see the tooth. She busted it out and it was all long with this like really long root and it TOTALLY freaked me out. After that, every time I'd see the necklace, I'd like pinch pick it up and move it as far away from my dresser as I could get it. I think my mom still has a jewelry box full of our teeth. Wonder if that freaky tooth is still around inside that cool necklace.)

Told you it was fun to be one!

Our little "Miss T". Chloe loves to dress her up.

Tati's first hair-do. (Special for you Aunt Carlie)

Eating her pretend pickle.

Going for a ride in the laundry basket. She literally just climbs in. There must be something with kids and laundry baskets because my friend Gina's kids play in theirs too. Do all kids? It's kind of gross because she is on top of all the dirty clothes. Occasionally she has chewed on a shirt or a sock. It is all fun and games until she wants to get out though.




Let the record show that Greg was filming her to "see" how she would get out by herself. Is it just me or was this outcome obvious?

Laundry Train

Here's a video of the girls playing "laundry train". It was too big for me to upload so I had to go through photobucket. I'm proud that I figured it out but I couldn't make it be inside the post with all the other Tati stuff. I'll have to practice being more technologically saavy.

Am I just "no fun" anymore?

So go watch this video and then come back and read the rest of this. Greg was all excited for me to watch it and also told me that Chloe loved it. Whenever he uses the old, "Chloe loved it" jazz on me, it doesn't really work because well, she's 4 and she just doesn't really get the grand scheme of things. First off, I couldn't believe it. It had to be fake I kept telling myself. Then I just got so angry. Do these guys have families? How dumb and selfish can you be? I just think, "How dare you risk your life just to get your jollies?" (ok, and side note, do they just throw those skis away in the beginning? Does that mean they are crappy skis or are they wasteful as well as stupid?) So am I crazy? He tried to tell me he and my brother, Stephan, would really like to do this together. I mean if he thought he'd have a tough time convincing his wife to jump on board of this coo-kooery, I'd love to see Stephan telling Marnie about this idea and her taking him seriously. Can you believe this Marnie?

The thing is I can totally see all the men in my families totally watching this like, "woah! rad!" and dreaming about how they'd love to do this too. Is it just a girl thing that this bothers me so much or am I really just "no fun" anymore? Tell me what you think.

Daddy/Daughter Date

Believe it or not things have really been warming up lately. We had a bunch of snow melt and it was even in the 40's! I was really starting to get excited and proud of myself because I thought we had survived winter. I even could be heard saying things like, "Well, that wasn't too bad." or "Guys, we did it! We survived Winter!" but alas, I was premature. Looks like winter, round 2 is starting. This morning the temp. was 5 (not too cold) but the windchill was -35!!! Yikes. While things were "warm" though, we took advantage to play outside well at least Daddy and Chloe did. I don't last very long "playing" in the snow.

First they wrote in the snow which was pretty exciting because she could see it from our window.



Then they made a fort in the backyard. Chloe started out strong and was having a grand ole time. I don't think she realized what all her dad had envisioned. Then we ran out of snow in the backyard and I was like, "Um, Greg how are we going to close this thing up?" then he pulled out the genius idea of the umbrella.

Normally when people have a snow fort in the backyard, it lasts for a few days and melts. This one is likely to be around until June. We'll be sure and report when it finally disappears. Good job Daddy!

Milk's Favorite Cookie

Tati is now done with homemade milk so I thought we'd celebrate by treating her to an Oreo. She LOVED IT! Well, seriously what is not to love? We smuggled a pack of double stuffs back with us from good ole America. So delicious. The Oreos here are funky and greasy tasting AND no double stuffs! I think I will cry actual tears when this pack is done.
So in honor of homemade milk, normal milk and of course, the beloved chocolate milk, I say unto you in the words of my uncle, "Ala Cuisine!"

And of course especially for today, Happy Chocolate MiLK day! Yes, we still celebrate and hope you all do too. :-)

In Exile

Do you ever go into exile because you're embarrassed by how you look? I was reading on my friend's blog this week and it inspired me to document something that I would be embarrassed to let other people know but that I'm sure other people do. I have purposefully avoided people, errands, answering the door (ok, only once then when the knocking persisted, I answered it), video chat, and well lit rooms in the last week all because of my face. No, I don't think I have a horribly ugly face--sure there are things that bug me and things I would change if I could but not surgically--I'd never be too drastic but my skin, BROTHER! I would swap somebody else in a heartbeat. I grew up with sorta an unfair anomaly of peoples. The Reeds who lived across the street come from some insanely good skin genetics that they could probably sell to some invetro people for lots of money. Granted they moved away during the worst of puberty so I don't have 100% evidence that they never got any zits but I'm pretty sure they didn't...EVER...not one. Then there was Leah, who I think had one zit each month, maybe two if she was having an especially troubling time. Then my sister, my own stinky sister who had maybe like 5 a month. Alas, I have struggled forever. Wanna talk skin care? I don't know anybody who takes better care of their face. I have used or tried nearly every skin method known to man and though I feel like I pretty much have things under control, sometimes all the world breaks lose on my face. This is one of those weeks. 8 simultaneous doozies all over my face making every angle of my face vulnerable. That means noticeable/non coverable ones. 8. Eight. EIGHT!!

I started my aerobics class again this week and almost didn't go but I need to start exercising again plus I paid money for it so I had to go. But what to do? I'm not a put on make-up to exercise kind of girl but at least I had to attempt some cover up. What's worse a bad cover-up job or no cover-up at all? So my solution was to have ridiculous hair and outfit. I wore blue pants, red shirt that says, "Jamaica Me Happy" (like I was willing it to work magic on me), and a white hoodie. I told myself I was Wonder Woman. Then to make it even better, I put on a headband. A 4th of July headband of Chloe's with a big bow on top. It was ridiculous. It was distracting. It was perfect.

If you're thinking, "What, no picture?" then you're crazy but maybe writing about it is the first step. MAYBE, someday I can post pictures and then another million years after that I might even be able to laugh about it.