The End of the Baby Teeth Smiles

Our baby boy lost his first TWO teeth yesterday! Gone are the days of perfect little baby teeth smiles in our family.

Camp came home from school yesterday excited to tell us the news. When we asked how it happened he said “his friend slapped him.” We probed for more info & sure enough, his friend slapped him at recess & his tooth went flying into the sand. I guess if you’re going to lose your first tooth at school, you might as well get a good story out of it!

 

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Back to School 2022-2023

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Strawberry Picking

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Learning From Dad

 

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The Best Mother's Day Gift

Camp had to do an animal project for school & without hesitation said he wanted to do his report 

on ocelots. After first looking up what an ocelot was, we got started on the written portion. When 

it came time to do the poster, Maeli jumped in & helped him get it all put together. I’m pretty sure there’s no better gift for a mom than seeing her kids be sweet to one other. That’s the only Mother’s 

Day gift I need.

 

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5-Year-Old Camp

Camp is always full of energy & is quite the chatterbox. He loves looking for bugs & equally likes to “bug” his siblings. He is tenderhearted and quick to apologize when he’s done something wrong. When he has something to say he usually prefaces it with “Can I tell you something?” & says “I love you” at least 5 times a day.

At bedtime last night, I was telling Camp how much I was going to miss “5-year-old Camp.” He asked me to sing him a song about it so I put my words to a made-up tune. As I finished singing, tears welled up in his eyes & he said “you’re making me cry.” He then proceeded to sing to me with the same teary eyes. The saddest part about parenting little kids is that they grow up way too fast. 🥲 Happy birthday big boy - here’s to hoping this next year goes by a whole lot slower.

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Grand Canyon Deer Farm

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Flagstaff Snow Park

We visited the Flagstaff Snow Park this weekend & pretended it was winter for an afternoon.

The highlight was on the biggest hill when we all decided to go down together holding on to each other’s tubes. Milo & I were last in the line & the weight of everyone going down the hill pulled Milo right out of his tube & dragged him down the hill on his stomach as he had a death grip on Maeli’s tube. He wasn’t hurt and it was probably one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. We spent the rest of the day laughing about it. Definitely placing that image on a special page in my mental photo album. 

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