Valentines and a missing tooth...

This week has been fun!  Dominic's tooth finally fell out while brushing his teeth! And he is SO excited to leave his tooth for the Tooth Fairy.  Dominic says he wants not just money for his tooth, but Pirate treasure.

    

So Tim and I look in a bowl where we keep change and find three half-dollars, a dollar coin, and a Sacagawea coin for the Tooth Fairy.  Dominic was so excited when he found the coins in his tooth pillow the next morning!  A great was to start Valentine's Day.

Dominic's Valentine's breakfast.

Dominic's lunch for Valentine's day.

Dominic's class also had a Valentine's Day party... Dominic and I created these Valentine's day butterfly cards that I found on Pinterest.... It's a craft that originated from the SheKnows website, complete with a template to print the butterflies. These were incredibly easy to make and they were also cheap... I think for 26 of them it cost total about $10.  Materials you will need:  cardstock (we did red, pink, fuscia, light blue, and light green), tape, printer, lollipops, stick-on googly eyes, pen, scissors, and stickers to embellish butterfly wings. First you print the template and for each sheet of cardstock there are two butterflies so for 26 butterflies we printed on 13 varied colors of cardstock. I cut out the butterflies and snipped where printed on the butterflies to create slits for the lollipops.  Dominic then wrote on the back of each "TO: (name) FROM: Dominic" and he embellished with stickers.  I then put the googly eyes on the lollipop and put in card.  Then secured the lollipop on the back of the card with tape.VERY EASY!

Dominic ended  up having a lot of fun at his kindergarten class' Valentine's Day party and came home with a basket full of Valentine's Day cards and goodies!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!!!

Tooth Fairy pillows and baby first chuckles!

So our last post was about Dominic's pending loss of his first baby tooth... but nope, no tooth yet.  Despite that I had to prepare and finally made him a Tooth Fairy pillow.  Here's how it came out:

Here is the back.

Here is the front

I love it!  I got the idea from the At Home in the Northwest blog but changed it a little.  The instructions said to use felt and stuffing for the inside to make it a poofy pillow but I wanted to use all materials I already had in our house.  So, I used scraps from a recycled t-shirts (one white and another blue) that I had cut up to make upcycled t-shirt scarves. I also used buttons for the eyes.  I didn't have any stuffing for the pillow but had a BUNCH of matting left over from another project so I used 4 sheets of that. You can find the pattern for the tooth and pocket by clicking here.

You will need material for the tooth, filler (batting or stuffing), scissors, pattern, either buttons for the eyes or material for the eyes.  It also calls for pink material for cheeks but I elected not to do the pink and just sewed cheeks using the stitch.

I think it came out cute but more importantly Dominic loves it also!

Now we're just waiting for his tooth to fall out!

Dominic also started soccer lessons yesterday.. he was having fun until he and another boy ran into each other and face planted each other.

  

Dribbling.

Are we using our listening ears?

Kaylee is still having a really hard time with teething... she's having a hard time sleeping at nap time and seems so uncomfortable.  As each day goes by you can see a teeny bit more of her little tooth.  Lucky for Tim and I though she is still sleeping well at night.  She is sleeping about 6.5 hours going to sleep at 10:00 p.m. and only wakes once at night, usually about 4:30 a.m. She then goes back to sleep until about 7:30-8:00 a.m.  She also laughed for the first time last night!  She was getting ready for bed, me holding her in the rocking chair and Tim playing peek-a-boo with her and she laughed a little short chuckle to Tim's peek-a-boo!  The days have been a little warmer here and I am looking forward to taking the kids out in the sunshine!

MLK Jr. Day and the Tooth Fairy!

Uber cute!  This morning as Kaylee and I were watching Obama's Inauguration celebration I can overhear Tim talking to Dominic about why today is a "stay-home day", who MLK Jr. was, and why he is significant.  Tim tells D that people were mean to Martin Luther King Jr. because of the color of his skin.. to which Dominic says "That's not nice" and after some thought then goes to "check the color" of his skin in a mirror.  Good conversation to have regardless of skin color... particularly as D is aware of the difference in skin color.  He once told me (this was quite a few months ago) that Mommy has a peach face and Daddy has a brown face.  *love*

On another note... my little man is growing up!  Tonight, just after dinner D came to me and said, "Mom, my tooth is loose!"  I asked him to show me and sure enough, his front bottom right tooth wiggled!  This is a first in this house.. his first loose baby tooth.  And oh, how excited am I to play the Tooth Fairy (all things magical are BIG in our house)!  So... here we go, researching (via Pinterest) some Tooth Fairy ideas... Here are some I like:

This is a tooth pillow from Etsy shop memeandsaysay.

This is a tooth pillow from Etsy shop BoutiqueVintage72.

Or this DIY Tooth Pillow from Making Life Whimsical.

And another DIY tooth pillow from At Home in the Northwest.

Or if you don't want to do a tooth pillow these are incredibly cute!  Repurposed (and I love repurposed stuff) altoid tins to hold the tooth.  These are by Emily Giovanni.

There is also the website Capture the Magic where you upload your photo and add a tooth Fairy to the picture... but it costs about $10 for 3 photos.  

I also like this idea: glitter sprayed Tooth Fairy money by Ten Kids and a Dog.

A free printable letter from the Tooth Fairy from Making Life Whimsical.

Out of coincidence a couple of weeks ago we read the book Tooth Fairy by Audrey Wood... and with discovering his tooth loose tonight he asked to read the book again tonight before bedtime.  

Anyhow... I need to start preparing.. that tooth is going to come out soon and Dominic is expecting a visit from the Tooth Fairy!  I think I'm going to make him a tooth pillow, the Tooth Fairy $, and a letter from the Tooth Fairy... I love being the Tooth Fairy!