The First of Many!

Friday night was a big night in the Rairick household! Owen lost (well, Chris pulled) his first tooth! It all started about 3 weeks ago or so when I noticed that Owen had almost 2 full big, permanent teeth in on the bottom even though he hadn't lost any baby teeth yet! We called the dentist because his baby teeth were not even loose at all. The dentist looked and encouraged Owen to try to wiggle and pull them himself or otherwise he would have to do it in a month or so if they weren't out yet! So a couple of weeks ago, Owen was eating some chicken nuggets when he bit down kind of funny and immediately loosened one of his teeth. He had been faithfully wiggling it daily, but at the same time, he was also quite wary of biting with it. On Friday night after dinner, Chris asked him if he could just wiggle it some and before Owen even realized it, Chris had pulled it out. Owen didn't quite know what to think at first, but quickly got over that and got really excited! He wanted me to take a picture and send it to everyone he knows, including Uncle Jim (who lives about 2 minutes away!). It was so much fun, but I can't believe that we are already at the losing teeth stage of life! Time flies!

Happy Birthdays!!

Well, since I am in catch-up mode on this blog, I figured I would do it again! Both Elliot and Caeden have had birthdays that I haven't posted about yet! Elliot turned 3 on December 30th and Caeden turned 5 on February 2nd.

Elliot's birthday came in the midst of several rounds of a stomach bug so we had to cancel his initial party, but we were able to do a small belated party with his cousins! Elliot loves all things relating to cars, construction, tractors, etc... So for his cake I decided to make a digger cake. The pictures aren't real clear but it is supposed to look like the digger has dug a big hole in the cake!

We had a small party for Caeden as well. We have loved having Chris's brother and his family in the same town for the past five years to celebrate with us, especially since the rest of our family is not able to be here and the boys love playing and celebrating with their cousins! Caeden had requested a "swacker" dinosaur cake and this was my best attempt! I cut and frosted the cake and Owen and Caeden did the decorating with the M & M's and chocolate chips.

I love both of these "middle" boys so much! The Lord has and I am sure will continue to use them as a means of sanctification in my life and I struggle daily to be a faithful mom to my boys! Sometimes I just have to laugh at the fact that I am a mom of 4 boys! Ha! I was so intimidated by little boys when I used to babysit as a young woman. I had no idea what to do with them! And now here I am trying and failing to be a Godly, faithful example of a Biblical woman to them and learning how to love all things related to cars, dirt, worms, warriors, and sound effects!!!!

The Rairick kids!

Love the intensity of my son with his candles!!

Caeden's dinosaur cake!

Caeden opening his gifts!

We were singing Happy Birthday and the Doxology (a Rairick tradition) and he was being so shy and not wanting his picture taken but also loving every minute of his birthday!