Clark has had very odd baby teeth losses. To start with, his bottom two permanent teeth grew in behind his baby teeth - so he had two rows of teeth (shark teeth as we called them) until the dentist pulled his baby teeth out. Then the tooth next to these bottom ones got loose but he was so scared to pull it out that it fell out in his sleep and he swallowed it. Which brings us to the next one. Finally one of his top front teeth became loose. He has been wiggling it around for at least 3 months. He kept trying to tie string to the tooth and then tie the other end of the string to his toe or a doorknob and get it to come out. We told him this was a waste of time, but he insisted that it was going to work. He would wiggle the tooth but only forward, so for the last couple weeks or so, he has had this buck tooth. Nice. Finally today he wanted it out before church, so I pulled on it and then he got out another huge piece of dental floss and tied it to the door and kept trying to tie the other end to his tooth. Over and over he would slam the door, and the string would always fall off the tooth. One time after the door slam, he screamed and amazingly enough, it had fallen out! It was bleeding a tiny bit so he had to stuff half a roll of toilet paper in his little hole while we looked all over the floor for the tooth, which did not stay in the dental floss. After 5 minutes we finally found it - it had flown 6 feet down the hall. How many teeth does he have to loose? I have one kid that can't seem to get them all in (Bella) and one kid that can't seem to get them out. I didn't remember teeth being such a huge part of childhood!
It was really fun. Before we get to the great part, no trip is complete without the traveling story. Can we go on a car trip without one of our children chucking in the car? I have never been car sick before and this concept is really weird to me, but anyway, this time it was Bella. We were almost to the lake and driving through a windy canyon to get there, Bella was asleep, and she woke herself up by throwing-up all the Nilla Wafers she had eaten during the drive. What a mess. Of course there is no place to pull off on this nice windy road, so we have to go a few miles before there is a small spot to get off and I can kinda clean her off. We were really close to the lake, so we opted to not take an hour and just do a quick wipe so we could get there and then throw everything in the washer! Clark spent the rest of the drive with his head hanging out the window! But HURRAY we made it!
The next day we went, she wouldn't put her feet on the sand AT ALL. She spent the whole day going from the mat to the beach towel, unless we were holding her. Crazy girl!
Bella and Clark both liked the rides on the Sea-Doos as well. Clark wasn't sure on the first trip that he loved them, but decided they were alright after all and had a great time riding them. I didn't get a picture of him riding (opps) but here is one of Bella.
We called her our little sumo with all that flotation! There was also a boat that was lots of fun. Clark especailly loved getting pulled on the tube behind the boat. Ryan and I took a turn as well but between the two of us there was a lot of mass (mostly his :) that got jurked around as we bounced over the wake of the boat. I was SO sore the next day but would do it again!
The place where we stayed was great and the kids had a good time playing tennis and swiming in the pool with their cousins. 
Well, we really loved being together and had a great time. Too bad we all don't live closer together!
Ryan made it through his first term of college and was happy to be done with those classes. The big project he had was to build this model home for his construction class. He did a great job and so did I (if I do say so myself)! Notice the really lovely windows, copper topped chimney's and fascia (I worked on those).
9 years ago
