First Baby Tooth

Benjamin's a very proud little boy tonight. At dinner (corn on the cob) he lost his first baby tooth. He's been bouncing off the walls talking about the Tooth Fairy coming to leave him a coin. I was a little worried at first that he had swallowed it, but when I inspected his corn, I found it wedged in there.

Now I just have to pray he doesn't wake up when I go in there. We never go into his room while he's sleeping.

Benjamin the Artist

Benjamin has been blanketing the house with paper "signs". In an effort to try to confine them to one place, we bought an artist easel. It's two-sided--one side is a chalkboard and the other is a white board. There's also a paper roll that hangs down over the white board. We weren't able to put it together until after he went to bed last night, but since he saw it this morning, he's been on it nonstop. He's focused on the chalkboard so far, but I'm sure he'll move on eventually. He has access to chalk, dry-erase crayons, regular crayons, markers, and watercolors. So far he's been writing instead of drawing, but I'm hoping that will change. He just drew the exit signs to South Jordan and Moab.