Shiner

 It was bound to happen at some point, and I guess going unscathed until the age of 3 isn't too bad. Tate is an avid horse rider, stick horse rider. He loves racing, and lately chasing his sisters and bumping them with the horse. Yesterday morning as I was doing McKenna's hair, Tate began chasing Tyler while on his horse and I heard them heading downstairs. I'm not sure if he fell down the stairs or when he got to the bottom of the stairs he tripped, but I found a line along his right eye where he'd been hit.

For the remainder of the day I was instructed, "no touch my owie Mommy." Although it must not have been hurting too badly because he got into my makeup drawer and tried to put on eyeliner-the marks above his eyebrow.

This morning his eye was a bit puffier and beginning to color. Now when we go places people just think I beat him, although no one wonders why, they're still telling me I have my hands full with this one.

Tooth #5-McKenna

For the past couple of weeks McKenna's top two teeth have gotten a bit loose and grow looser everyday. It must have made her nervous and hurt because she stopped eating. At times when she'd try one of the top teeth would twist a lil and freak  her out. It wasn't loose enough to pull so we continued to wait...and then while we were in Utah it was ready, no one was allowed to touch it except her Dad who was in Washington. Sure enough the morning he got back he calmed her down with promises to only try once and asking her to be brave. McKenna describes the episode with he pulled and it cracked and then it came out. Sounds awful, but she's thrilled to have it out and is back to eating.