That's right, we had our first trip to the dentist to get our teeth cleaned. It was pretty great, in the beginning. The first thing our hygienist did was show us the little squirter thing. It was the best part.
The chair, or course, is another awesome thing about the dentist. Just lay back and enjoy the ride.
At our dentist, if you so choose, you can wear super-cool shades to keep the bright light out of your eyes. Jax so chose.
That's pretty much where the awesome-ness ends. The sucker-thing was just weird.
Then the hygienist started counting all our teeth. We both have all 20 of our teeth.
The weirdest thing of all, the cleaning. It felt weird and made a weird noise. Weird.
Very weird.
After our teeth were all shiny and clean, we had a nice chat with our lovely hygienist.
And she let us pick out a brand new tooth brush. We both chose Pooh.
Shortly thereafter, our actual dentist came to see us. He counted all our teeth and talked with Mommy and Daddy for a little while as we climbed on the dental chair.
He was a pretty cool dude and he told us we have some good looking teeth.
D is for DENTIST
Snow removal
For those of you out there who don't know what a REAL snow plow looks like, here ya go. Its gotta have two huge shovels in the front and a giant cargo bed in the back for all the salt and sand. He game by our house four times this morning. He honked at us a couple times too. Awesome.
We did a little traveling between snow plow passes via our sleds. We'd
forgotten how much we love going on sled rides.
We stopped by to say hello to Mr. Dick who lives across the street. He working on smaller scale snow removal using his super-awesome snow blower. As always, he was nice enough to help Daddy do a little snow removal on our driveway. Poor Daddy, all he has is a big heavy shovel.
When we finished watching My. Dick, we hopped out of our sleds and pulled them home ourselves . . .
. . . It was time to make snow angels. The snow was perfect - soft, fluffy, heavenly.
It sure was cold though and it's only going to get colder. They're predicting minus 15 to minus 20 wind chills tomorrow. Perhaps tomorrow is a good day to stay inside.
You know what the best part about going outside in the snow is? Coming back inside to a nice warm cup of cocoa and some nilla wafers.
By the time we finished our hot cocoa and nilla wafers we were pretty exhausted.
Hoser up
When it snows around here and you're about to go out in it, be sure to put all your hoser gear on. Mittens, hat (with ear flaps), and snow overalls. The key to the look, however, is no jacket. Perfect.
Burried in bubbles
It's not so much the bubbles that makes this impressive, it's the willingness to lie down in the water that's under the bubbles that makes this an accomplishment. The fishies are funny too.
Winter swinging
After Mommy's race started, we had some time to kill. Luckily, there was a park near the finished line, so we hopped on the swing and did a little frozen swinging.
It seemed fine while we were swinging, the cold didn't bother us so much. Maybe it's because we were having so much fun, we didn't notice it. When it was time to get down, boy did we feel the cold then.
Winter racing
Mommy participated in the Reindeer Run 5K over the weekend. We surprised her by coming to watch and cheer her on. There were tons of people there, and she's not in this pictures, but we are.
It was really cold so Daddy got us all bundled up as best he could. When Mommy finished, the first thing she did was come over to say hello and give US a drink of her water. How nice is that?
She was very surprised and excited to see us. We didn't want to miss her first race, no matter how cold it was. We are really proud of her, she did an awesome job.
Smashing pumpkins
We helped Mommy make some pumpkin pie with the last of our pie pumpkins the other day. Man it was really hard work.
We helped each other as best we could, making sure the other didn't miss any.
Upgrade the bucket . . .
. . . to a basket. (Click here to see some good bucket-ness from the past.)
Little mailmen
We had a special job to do today. Since it's the holiday season, that means holiday cards.
Lots of holiday cards that we loaded into our "mailbags" . . .
. . . and set out to the mailbox down the street from our house.
We thought we'd do double duty and walk Hairy as well.
We had an awful lot of fun. We're finally getting more use to the cold.
We saw lots of strange and interesting things on the way there. Check out the orbs.
When we finally got to the mailbox, we dug deep into our mailbag for all the holiday cards.
After we retrieved the cards, we realized what we were up against. That mailbox was HUGE.
We did our best to reach as high as we could . . .
. . . but it just wasn't enough. We needed a little boost from Daddy to drop those cards in.
When we finally finished, we started the long walk back.
This was our first of many trips this season. Mommy is writing lots of cards.
You got a little something right there
Our new favorite things at the Children's Museum is the face painting. We're getting better and better at it. Don't you think?
Outside Grandma and Bumpa's
It is great here. We want nothing more than to swim in the water behind Grandma and Bumpa's. Call it a lake or pond, it too bad it's so muddy, gross and has snapping turtles in it.
So we find other things to do, like walk into the cage surrounding a bunch of small trees. We pretended we were Pooh bears and said "Oh bother" while we were inside. Just don't feed or poke the bears.
Grandma showed us how to play croquet. Up next, lawn darts.
We did some usual boy stuff too. We climbed this tree, with Grandma and Daddy's help. Once we got up there, we added our own twist. We jumped off the tree and let Daddy catch us below.
Flying through Grandma and Bumpa's
With all the family still in town, we decided to head over to Grandma and Bumpa house one more time over the weekend. We showed off our piloting skills . . .
. . . and did what we could to help with the crossword puzzles. We got one: What does Pooh say? It's eight letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Oh bother".
We also had a little trouble with one of the bells. The little thingy on the inside fell out. We tried to fix it with Bumpa, but we didn't have much luck.
We spent a little time watching our Missouri Tigers play the Kansas Chickenhawks. We won, or course.
We did a little searching too and found these croquet mallets. We almost always find something new when we visit. Grandma and Bumpa's house is treasure trove of interesting things, and people.
Decorating Hairy
Decorating Hairy is definitely part of the Christmas tree decorating process.
We're not too sure he likes that part of the process very much.
Deck the living room
With the tree standing in the corner of the living room, we set out to decorate it.
Mommy and Daddy got out all the different boxes of ornaments for us to pick through.
Once we found the right one, we hung it on the tree. The first dozen all went "way up high."
We also put the little trees in the window and spread the "snow" all around the bases, and the floor.
We decorated those too.
Took awhile . . .
. . . but after much searching . . .
. . . we finally found the perfect Christmas tree.
After Daddy cut it down, we helped load it onto the sled and dragged to our car.
It was really hard work, and it was cold too. So when we finished, we headed to the warming house.
It was nice and warm in there and the cider was delicious.
Once we were all warmed up, we headed back outside for a tractor ride. That just made us cold again.
We had a pretty good time, despite the cold.
