Teresa's First Lost Tooth!

I had mentioned on Facebook about a week ago that Teresa had a loose tooth and we kept track of it until today at church Cara noticed that a tooth was coming out underneath it.  As such Cara got out the gauze and tore it from her gums.  The tooth fairy (which she doesn't believe in due to some stupid Arthur book!) shall not visit our house tonight as she wishes to show it to her best friend Grace.  As I type Cara informs me that Teresa is ridiculous as she is practicing saying words to make sure she can still enunciate properly...

For those keeping score at home and involved in the numerous pools, the first tooth out was the lower right central incisor.

Yup, that's a tooth.

And a hole in toothline

1 down, 23 to go.

Teresa Climbing

Much to my surprise in one of our late September jaunts into the park Teresa showed great interest in climbing the big pine tree, and climb she did!  I was stunned how high she made it...

Just playing around...

The ascent

Look up, way up!

Right up there now, at her highest point.

My little climber!

Teresa's Birthday!

Wow, how time flies. A month ago now was Teresa's birthday and I never got around to putting up pictures of the event. We had a small gathering with family during the week and a birthday party with a few school friends on the weekend with Sarah coming in for a visit.

While the gatherings were small, Teresa thoroughly enjoyed her party and Sarah's visit. Teresa got from us some art lessons at the WAG which she has begun, a bottle rocket launcher from auntie (which is currently under repair!) and she received a crayon maker with her great-grandparent's money.

All the girls playing dress-up

Craft time!  They got to make their own leis.

Margaret decided to play on her own.

Grilled cheese & a tea party!

Gift time!

A true Yost picture.  Sarah caught mid-flash!

Opening...

More gifts...

TINKERBELL BARBIE!!!!!!

Hello cutie pie!

Margaret Munching...

At dinner today, Cara saw me feeding Margaret and she had some food around the edges of her mouth, along with some food dropped along the way as is my norm.  In passing, she mentioned that Margaret would likely be cleaner if she fed itself, so I pushed the bowl of spaghetti and the fork in her direction and said "Game on!"

The cleaning crew shows up...

I think I won this round!

And, the pictured don't do justice to the spaghetti covered pants, shirt & chair that can't be seen in the photos!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving all!  Off to my third gorge of the weekend, and figured I would show off the girls' handiwork from school.

Teresa's card from school

And the inside...

Some of Frances' fine work from pre-school.

Shutting it Down 2012

Well, it had to happen a little earlier than I would have liked due to Teresa's birthday party, an early Thanksgiving and Cara's allergies.  This is the first time I can recall not being out at the cottage for a single day in October due to the early long weekend, but in a way I feel fortunate that I did not wait until this weekend to shut the cottage down as we are presently having a mini-blizzard here in Winnipeg.

Shutting the cottage down is my least favourite day of the year and likely is Cara's too, albeit for substantially different reasons.  This year though Cara didn't want to come up as the cottage has been setting her allergies off horribly and with so many other things were going on during the September weekends I only got to go out for a day but I got to bring out the two older girls and Rowdy.  Everything went off without a hitch, and I even did a bit of plumbing without too much swearing!  The four hours I got to spend on the front beach with the girls and Rowdy was wonderful, but as always a certain melancholy remained...

Regardless, here are some of the highlights of the day...

Frances is channelling her inner Auntie Pearl me think...

Teresa drawing a wonderful picture of a lady made of shapes...

Teresa had to suddenly go to the washroom, and the closest one was already shut down for the season. Thusly, we meandered to the new washroom all the while Frances insisted on butt scootching her way down the "sand hills" of the boardwalk.

Teresa discovered a bone from the Lake Winnipeg Monster!!!

Cara and I listened to the girls when they insisted that they would not swim.  Ooops.

And Frances follows suit

Playing on an island.  Rowdy had a heck of a day, as he got swim and chase a ball for over four hours.

One last sunset.  No bugs for this one!

A last view of the cottage with the moon overhead.  This is likely the last time I will need to poly the front door come fall...  Sigh...