Jack's two, middle, lower front teeth have been loose for quite a while. This past weekend, I was looking at them and noticed one had fallen out. Jack tried to convince me it hadn't... but it really had. Jack wasn't upset about the missing tooth... he took it in stride. Monday, the other loose tooth came out while he was twisting it back and forth... hooray! This one we have to look at, admire, wonder over. It is early for him to be beginning to lose teeth... but he also got his first two teeth when he was just three months old!
Yesterday Jack, Kitty and myself got set up on the patio to do some painting. I had read (in one of the many online blogs I read) about using a salad spinner for doing spin art. Spin art is made using a piece of paper on a spinning turn table. The kids have been doing it at camp using markers. My experience with spin art started when I was in 4th grade and I got a spin art kit for some holiday. I did it on our ping-pong table, which quickly became spotted with flecks of paint as it came flying out of my turntable after my very generous self glopped on way too much paint. The genius in using the salad spinner is that it is all enclosed... so paint doesn't go every which way. I cut paper to fit and the kids and I started to get messy. I had woken Kitty up from her nap so that she wouldn't sleep too long and not be able to go to bed on time at night. She was all out of sorts... during our painting she started crying hysterically 4 or 5 times. It was usually something like me trying to explain to her that she has to share the paint tray of blue with Jack that would set it off. The first few times, I went over (she had gone behind the car to cry) and talked her down off the ledge. After the 3rd time, I simply said to her, "You can cry or you can come have fun painting with Jack and me." Each crying jag got shorter after that. I felt sorry for her because she was obviously so very tired... but if she sleeps too long at nap time, she can be up until 11pm. She's transitioning to not having a nap... some days she's fine without one, other days she looks exhausted by noon.