Teeth and Tiger

This week, Emily lost her first tooth. I has been wiggly for a while so she was brave enough to allow Palmer to pull it out with a pair of his pliers! She is braver than I would have been!

and here she is after she let Palmer yank out her 2nd tooth a few days later!

This is Tiger...or Pumpkin.... or Toes. We don't really know what to call him. Our other cat, Oreo, met her match a while ago and fell victim to a skunk. We are not sure if she will come back, (I'm sure she's dead.) so in the meantime we met this little guy. Our friend, Shannon Perkins, knew of our unfortunate loss and brought him right over. We fell in love with him....Palmer, not so much! He has to be an outside cat, like Oreo, but this guys loves people too much. He was always at one neighbors house or another. I wasn't sure what we we're going to do until my wonderful neighbors, the Hughes, came to my rescue and adopted him. "Max" is now living his life as an indoor cat next door, and Hayley is kind enough to bring him by often for us to visit. I really liked him. Hew was a sweetheart and had 8 toes on his paws! I think for now, we will stick with fish:)

These pictures were obviously taken when Palmer was at work, as you can plainly see, he is in the house and on his chair!

Meet Oreo

Emily has wanted a cat for as long as I can remember. She finally convinced Palmer to let her keep one down at the shop to help catch mice. She went to work with him and earned a trip to the pet store. Here she is! Funny thing though...Oreo is still at our house. I guess she's still a little young to go be on her own. The girls are lovin' every minute they have with her. I can't wait to see what happens when it's time to take her to work.

Emily's 7th Birthday

Emily celebrated her 7th birthday with her friends, Lauren, Katelynn and Hailey. She wanted a jungle birthday so we had animals all over the place. We painted ceramic jungle animals, played fun games and did face painting. Here's Emily with her toucan!

Emily has really been getting into legos. She was super excited to open these from her Uncle Scott and Aunt Misti.

We went with cupcakes this time! We found some cute jungle toppers and candles and made rainbow cupcakes! They were really neat!

Happy Birthday Buddy! You are getting so big. We love you!

Christmas 2010

We did celebrate Christmas, I promise! I have been really bad about posting but am determined to keep it up. I need to do a lot of catch-up! Here are a few pictures from Christmas.Emily and I worked on our Annual Gingerbread house! It's unfortunate that she likes to keep it on the piano all season for decoration, because by the time she's done with it, you wouldn't want to eat it!. It always looks so yummy when we are building it!
This is Christmas Eve at the Goodman's. The kids had a blast meeting Santa and opening presents from each other. The cousins each draw each others names to give a present. Lindsay was so funny! The cousin that drew her name couldn't be there for Christmas Eve, so while the other kids opened their toys, I gave Lindsay her pajamas to open. You could tell by the look on her face that she was disappointed! Good thing Santa came by shortly after that!

Christmas morning at our house. Palmer and I gave the girls a play kitchen for their big gift this year. They love it! Lindsay is always cooking food for us! Cheryl and I stayed up late Christmas eve putting it together at her house. You can see here that Lindsay finally warmed up to her new jammies!
Here is Emily is her new jammies! She asked Santa to surprise her this year and he didn't let her down. Her favorite thing this year was a Dorothy doll from the Wizard of Oz, one of her current favs!

Here is a video of our visit from Santa! Lindsay was so excited, as you can see! Paetyn, not so much!