hmm...

This is what we woke up to this morning. And since Tyler is Las Vegas for the weekend, it was up to me to shovel it all.

This is what it looked by this afternoon. Probably should've waited to shovel and let the sun do all the work. I guess that's why Grandpa Anderson told me, "You never shovel until after noon."

First Tooth

Avery has been very discouraged that she hasn't earned any money from losing a tooth. But her time has come. He adult teeth are already starting to peek through behind the baby ones. I told her we were going to have to make an appointment and have the dentist take them out. That motivated her for start working on them. And that she did. Her persistence $paid$ off in the amount of one crisp dollar bill!

Hard up for some outdoor fun

The winter dulldrums are hitting me hard. I need some sun. I need some warm. So when the sun was shining on Presidents Day, we took advantage of the kids and Tyler being home from school and took them over to Scera Park.

Since he can't get down and crawl (there being snow and everything....) Ace was restricted to the stroller and swing. This was actaully his first time in a swing and he quite enjoyed it.

SWING TIME

Thanks you Presidents Day for giving a fun afternoon in the park with the kids.

Baby + sucker = happy

I have memories of going to the bank with mom when I was little...BB&T bank...or something like that. There was a branch sort of across the street from that little hospital in Longwood on 434. Anyway, I can remember always ALWAYS wanting to go with mom to the bank because I knew they would give out a sucker. My kids are the same. Whenever we pull into Zionsbank, the requests begin flying up to me from the backseat. Now, even Ace can join in. And boy does that little rollypolly LOVE his suckers.

He worked on that sucker until just the papery stick remained...actually, not much of even that remained. I was finding little soggy paper bits on the floor, so I finally took it away...much to his dismay. I think that was the first time he cried/had a little fit about not getting his way.

Show me the $$

Jett has interesting ways of making money. He's thinking the ivory trade market looks good.

However, this particular tooth was giving him trouble. It hurt to eat and he said his tongue kept hitting it. Well, only one way to solve that. Pull it out. I told him I would do it and that I would stop the second he said so. He made me pinkie promise that I would stop whenever he said to. So I pinkie promised and got my paper towel and grabbed on to that little tooth. He panicked. Yelled for me to stop and jumped away. I kept my vice grip on the tooth so that when he jumped back, the tooth stayed where it was. Tomorrow morning, he will be a dollar richer.

the "booty"

His "minus one tooth" grin!

Clay Roland Anderson

Some of you may already know, but for those who don't, Tyler's brother passed away last week. Tyler's nephew's wife wrote a very sweet post about it. Here is the link.
CLAY ROLAND ANDERSON