Good-bye 2nd tooth

From Jan/Feb2016

Tonight during the Super Bowl, Eila's second tooth came out (the other front bottom tooth)!  It had been wiggling along side the first tooth, and tonight she just couldn't take it any more.  We were watching the game with friends and Erica suggested tying dental floss around it to help get it out.  Eila agreed and is now anticipating the tooth fairy's arrival again.

Bible Sunday

Today the 3rd graders at our church were presented with Bibles.  I still have my bible I was given in the second grade, so it was very sweet to have reached this milestone with Annikka. 

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And Annikka was invited to be a reader during the second service, she read the second lesson (2 Corinthians 3.12-4.2).  She was a little nervous but also excited.  Doesn't she look so grown-up?

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First fairy visit

We are happy to report that the tooth fairy found our house last night and gladly took Eila's shiny little tooth.

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While she was happy to get a dollar for her tooth, I think she was even more happy that the tooth fairy responded to her note:

Dear Tooth fairy,
Please leave a pic of yourself.
love  Eila

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Apparently she's tooth-shaped, with wings and a crown.

First tooth gone

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Eila's loose tooth finally fell out today!  It had been getting very loose and making it a bit hard for her to eat at times, so she was ready for it to come out.  She was going to have Joel pull it out, but he suggested she try pushing on it for a little while.  As we talked about the best ways to push on it, and she suddenly announced it was out.

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She is so very excited.  Annikka helped her rinse the blood from her mouth and then spelled out the words for her to write a note to the tooth fairy (she wants the tooth fairy to draw a picture of what she looks like).  She just had a dentist appointment the other day (he also offered to pull it out, but then back down when Eila said okay) and she got a special little tooth-shaped box.

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She has been bouncing all around the house with excitement tonight and is not sure if she'll be able to sleep tonight, but really wants the tooth fairy to come.  And of course she can't wait for school again on Monday so that she can show everyone that she now has 19 teeth instead of 20 (an interesting fact she figured out since the dentist had just counted her teeth).

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Jury duty

I still remember being very surprised at how soon after we moved to Corvallis we received our first post card about jury duty; we had lived in MN for so long and never got one.  And although I had received the notice several times, today we the first time my number had ever been selected to actually go in.  I was chosen to be one of the twelve people questioned by the attorneys, and then surprised to be selected as one of the six jurors for the day (guess having a lawyer for a husband wasn't a drawback).

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It was a very interesting experience and I'm glad I got to find out a little more about how it all works.  Luckily it was only a one day trial, and now I get a 2 year break.

Ice day

Today we got a bonus day of winter break -- school was canceled due to ice.  We made the most of it by learning teaching the girls a new card game, a Larsen tradition (we always played this game with my grandparents).

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They caught on really fast and we had a fun morning with it.  I can see many more games in our future, and the tradition lives on.

Happy new year

New Year's day was surprisingly sunny and nice.  And we remembered that we had saved some sparklers from July to celebrate.

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Hoping for a happy & healthy 2016!