Tooth #3 and a lesson

Saturday Kiera lost her 3rd tooth. It was hanging by a tiny piece of skin but man was there some blood. She was a little freaked out by the amount of it.

Later that afternoon and into the evening her attitude went south. WAY south. There was a lot of frowning, growling and arms crossed and entirely too much back talk. Jimmy dealt with her more than I did. I had to keep sane by partially ignoring her and just laughing about it otherwise I was going to snap.  She had an early bedtime that night (yes because of the way she was acting) and put her tooth in it's little pillow and put that under her pillow. 

 

Only the tooth fairy didn't come that night. 

 

When she got up in the morning I asked her why she thought the tooth fairy didn't come and she said because the tooth fairy was really busy. I asked her if there was any other reason the she didn't come and Kiera said because of her attitude the night before. I got out her book "Silverlicious" (about a little girl that looses her sweet tooth who is acting mean, etc.) for us to read because it was perfect for the situation. After we read the book we had a discussion about her actions and why it is important to be kind, to have a good attitude, and to mind her parents. After we stopped talking for a couple minutes she asked if we could talk about it more. Heck yeah we can! My child wants to continue our serious conversation? Talk about a parent's dream right there! 

 

One of my top goals is for her to want to talk to us, and not be afraid that she will suffer any repercussions from doing so. We want for her to understand we are the ones she needs to come to if she has any questions about anything or if there is a problem she is having. You gotta start early with them! She already tells us stuff that happens or things that she has done even if it is something she could potentially get in trouble for, and she continues to tell us things. I guess we are on the right path so far! After our talk she decided to write the tooth fairy a letter asking for a piece of a cookie and to say she was sorry. Of course the tooth fairy showed up that night. Kiera was quite excited about the dollar under her pillow!  She decided to save it and not just rush out and spend it! Guess we are doing some things right, but only time will tell!

Where Not To Iron

About a week ago I was curled up in the chair in our living room, making these cute little yarn pom poms to put on some Christmas presents.  I was cutting the yarn with my super sharp scissors and accidentally cut my new jeans.  Ugggggh!!!  Luckily it was a tiny little cut and I happen to have some iron on patches on hand.  

A couple days later I decide to fix my jeans and whip out the iron and plug it in.  Did I get out the ironing board?  Nope I didn't.  I was extremely lazy that evening and didn't want to get it out for one little patch job that was going to take 2 minutes.  Now if I had one that folds down off the wall in my laundry room...that's a different story.  I laid out my jeans on my living room floor, made sure they are nice and flat, and placed my patch on the spot.  Don't worry, I put the patch on the inside of the jeans.  My iron was ready so I set it on top of the patch and walked away....

OH CRAP!!! I take the iron off of my jeans and had to peel my jeans off the floor.  It didn't burn my floor but it did leave a nice little iron shaped blue stain from they dye in the jeans.  It won't come out either.  Maybe now I have finally learned to NOT iron on the floor.  I am sure you can imagine how lovely some of the carpet looks after Kiera threw up milk as  baby, Lilly coughing up hairballs, and Berkley having accidents as a puppy.  Jimmy has joked with me that I fixed a $20 pair of jeans and ruined $1500 worth of carpet.  I corrected him that they were $15 jeans.  He just laughed.  That's why I love him.