My Little Runners

I'm excited!

I'm trying not to get TOO excited, but I'm excited!

My girls may have the running bug.

Sugar (and sometimes Spice) want me to let them out of the car at the top of our street, and then they run home.

It really is TOO cute.

(Except for when we are in a time crunch)

It took a while for the neighbors to know I wasn't trying to punish my kiddos by making them run home.

On this particular day, they wanted to "go for a run".

YES!

Love it, Love it, LOVE IT!!

pre-run pose

And they're OFF!!

Sugar took off...Bean and Spice joined forces!

Bean was still too slow for Spice, so she took off -- solo, once again!

You can see Sugar in the distance...

YEP!

Those are my girls!! :)

We're IN!

The Snaggle-tooth club!

Sugar has waited...

and waited...

and WAITED!

Today, Hot Coffee (DR. Hot Coffee, that is), gave her the green light to come to the office and have it EXTRACTED!!

She was fired up!

As were her sisters...

I came home at lunch today, and they were all jumping around like little Mexican Jumping Beans...

"we're ready to go", "I wanna go", "can I go, Mama?"

Of course, I had to document this significant milestone.

There it is...loose as a goose!

Letting Dr. Daddy take a look and put on the "jelly".

She had a captive audience.

A moment of doubt...

And then, it was OUT!

So PROUD!

Bean insisted on having a piece of the gauze action.

A beautiful, snaggle-toothed smile!

We left the office and went for a little treat -- ice cream, of course. We stopped by Poppy's office to show Babe and Poppy. We didn't make it home before the tooth was GONE! Sugar had insisted on carrying her little pink box around. She popped open the box while we were in the car and OUT flew the tooth!!

DEVASTATION...

I told her about a very similar letter I had to write once upon a time...

So, she wrote one as well.

When the hubs got home from work, he went outside to search for the missing tooth. Sugar came in every 30 seconds or so to give me the report of "it's gone FOREVER", "I'm NEVER going to find my tooth", "I can't BELIEVE my very first tooth is GONE" (and please read that with as much drama as possible -- because that's how we experienced it, and I wouldn't want you to miss out).

Once we had everyone tucked in and settled, I went out to the garage for one last look. She described herself dropping the tooth in her car seat -- in between her legs and down in a crack. I found out I need to clean out the carseat more often. But, better than that -- I FOUND the tooth!! It had fallen on the floorboard!

And the crowd goes WILD!!!

And there it is...safely back in the little pink box.

I made the delivery to her room and was able to witness the delight!

She placed it under her pillow...

and immediately wrinkled up the note to the tooth fairy.

SUCCESS!! We had a visitor!!

Sugar's Day - last day of kindergarten

Sigh.

My big-little girl.

Sigh again.

Seriously...

SERIOUSLY?!?

What a difference a year makes (and that's a school-year...so, that's nine months).

She's growing so fast it hurts.

Sugar's graduation day was pushed back due to severe weather, so, we decided to pick her up early from school and make a day of it!

on the way to school...

**FYI**

these pics are out of order...I used my phone's carmera for some and now that they are on here -- I'm not sure how to move them around (at least not easily)

SNOWCONES!!

lunch for the graduate at Dos Locos

Sugar chose a corn dog for the meal of the day...

She was FREEZING at this point. Soaking wet clothes, plus cool breeze, plus snow cone = chattering teeth!

We stopped by the office to see Hot Coffee and show him Sugar's medal!

Ready for water-play at church!

No....Bean is not crying. That is her sleepy-I-need-to-rest THROW my head back an CHEESE look!

Mrs. Wachob had her students wash off their desks with shaving cream!

classroom buddies

photo bombed!

Love that wrinkled nose grin -- no doubt she's happy.

Love those little water-wrinkled toes

what a great year!