First Day of Kindergarten!

Today was Liam's first day of Kindergarten! He had only the teeniest bit of a nervous look on his face as I said good-bye.  He was ready and waiting for this day, mentally and physically. He had his new Clone Wars shirt, Lego Ninjago backpack, and Lego shoes.  He loves what he loves, and now he has one more thing to love...SCHOOL.

On the way home this afternoon he chattered all about it. I don't know that I've ever heard the word "awesome" so many times in succession.  He had a great day! High points of his day included "eating a troll!" (cookie) and being able to "play inside and outside!" He can't wait for tomorrow.

Guess Who Lost a Tooth!

My baby's not a baby anymore! Liam surprised us by losing his first tooth just before starting Kindergarten! It was all he could talk about (with a slight lisp) for days.

"Look Mom! I can stick my finger in here!"

"Look Mom! My straw fits between my teeth!"

"Look Mom! I can see my new tooth growing in!"

Before the Tooth Fairy came, Liam kept asking me if I was the Tooth Fairy.  I could honestly answer him that I had never in my entire life been a tooth fairy.

The real Tooth Fairy had lots of practice and came that night bringing a dollar's worth of quarters and a lot of sparkly pixie dust that stuck to Liam's face the next morning. (I'm still finding it in his hair.) Unfortunately, those quarters somehow slipped behind the bed before Liam woke up.  "Mom, the Tooth Fairy took my tooth and didn't leave me anything!" Good thing she also left a note mentioning those quarters or we would have had a very bummed boy.

Just before breakfast Liam mentioned that maybe the tooth fairy was really his Kindergarten teacher and that she had used her magic wand to get into our house to quietly leave the quarters and sparkly dust. I told him to ask her all about it on his first day of school.

Liam Lullaby

An unfortunate accident occurred this evening shortly after bedtime resulting in the changing of Liam's bedsheets. Not a huge deal, but Liam and Teagan now sleep in the same room. I warned Liam before returning to his bed that we had to be extra quiet as we changed the sheets because Tigi was trying to go to sleep. As we entered the room, Liam walked over to Tigi's crib, reached his sweet little hand through the bars and started to sing Teagan's favorite song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to her as he stroked her face.

The song ended before I was done changing the sheets, and Liam turned to me and said in a matter-of-fact voice, "Well, that didn't work," as he stared at his wide awake, but calm sister. I think he really expected her to fall asleep right then. I pointed out how calm he had made her and asked him to sing her another song while I finished up with the sheets. He broke out in "In the Tigi Room," our family's version of the famous Disneyland Tiki Room song. Part of his rendition goes a little like this, "All the birds sing words and the flowers grow..." He's convinced that's how it goes. Works for me. Tigi, on the other hand, is convinced the song is really about her. Again, works for me.

He ended his serenade with another variation on the Tiki Room theme.  He came up with this one on his own.  "In the tootie, tootie, tootie, tootie, tootie room." I think it may have been Tigi's favorite number of the night too as she soon joined in singing.