Milestones of the Mouth...

It's been a while since I had a free minute to post on here. So many home improvement projects and work has really been taking it out of me lately! Summer is the time to gear up for the coming school year and get our office in good order & I've been trying to take some time off to spend with family as well. The last couple of weeks I worked really hard in order to feel comfortable taking a week off for a little family vacation & then honestly that was an exhausting vacation! Some fun times with the highlights being away from the worst of the wild fire smoke for a few days & taking the kids to the zoo and the Olympic National Rainforest. I feel really behind on all the things I want to post, but I had to share these pics of the girls since Lily got her braces off yesterday...and before it's been too long since Sierra lost this tooth! The new one is already starting to poke itself through her gums.

 I'm gaga over this girl's cute smile!

 

Sierra lost one of her front teeth last month, and is so cute with this little gap toothed smile! I love to watch her talk with it and her little extra lispiness - it is too cute - I probably get all moony-eyed every time she launches into a lengthy explanation or story because it really is just so adorable. Why do they have to grow up!?

At the same time - -it is really wonderful to see them grow! I can't believe how much older Lily looks from the time she got her braces on last year.

 Is she not gorgeous!?

Such a relief for her to not need help to floss her teeth every night! (Not that I can take credit for it - Mike was the one who had the patience and perseverance to help in that area! So grateful for him and all he does for us - he is the best!)

Will have to catch up with other photos from the summer soon - our fireplace re-do, going to the lake this summer, my parents visit, Lily's birthday, did I even post Sierra's? our little vacation on the WA coast...Summer is going by far too fast! Grateful we still have until after Labor Day - not that we can get out and enjoy it too much with all the wildfire smoke! Happy to have more wind this year than last so it is not constantly as bad like it was last year!! Anyway, enough rambling for now - I am determined to go work on a beach painting I started a long time ago to hang in my bathroom. Determined! ;)

Sierra Smiles

It's been a crazy, stressful, painful week! But I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel as the antibiotics work to bring down the swelling from infection in my face from a double root canal redo I had last Tuesday. Who knew mouth pain could be so painful!? - this was up there with childbirth! I have been barely making it! I'm feeling a little more pain as I type so I really really hope it's not coming back! The night after my root canal Sierra accidentally got punched in the stomach and then not 5 minutes later stung by a bee! She had a little of what looked like heat rash on her skin, but the next day it had grown so Mike took her to urgent care thinking it was an allergic reaction - it was - to strep! That was totally unexpected - she'd barely been coughing a little in her sleep for a couple of nights! So with my pain & infection and hers she and I have been on a crazy medicine schedule to get better. She's had a good attitude and energy level all along (aside from feverish moments at first) and seems to be completely better now, but I just started feeling more like myself again today. I hope it sticks. We have a birthday party for my big seven year old on Saturday!

Anyway, looking through our photos from this month there were so many cute ones of my baby girl, including her smiling through her bee sting so I thought I'd dedicate a post to her. I will do a birthday one for Lily after her party.

Here's my smiling sweet Sierra! -with a bee sting....

 it was a big red lump under there so she's a trooper!

 Did her hair up in french braids while she was on the tail end of her fever.
She hardly ever lets me do her hair & she looked so cute!

 Bringing me a flower. I love these - she is such a beauty!!

With one of her first drawings that actually look like something!

Isn't it awesome!? (This is Pirate girl with her treasure map)

 (talking with Grandma Kathy on the way to the lake in the car)

So proud of my silly, smart, sweet little girl!