Week 12: Another exciting week in the bayou! Mary Virginia had her first full week of school this week! She was so excited to go back and see her new friends! She does however not like a few things about school: she doesn't ride the bus, she doesn't eat breakfast at school, and she has to nap. Oh, and she wants to know when she can wear her regular clothes to school again! She was a good sport all week...we didn't fight in the mornings getting dressed, which is HUGE for us, and she did her homework everyday after school without complaining (that is right, we had homework every night)! Her only true complaint was that her bows were not quite right, apparently her bows aren't as big as the other girls hair bows! 
During nap time on Monday, MV was bored (no surprise), so she wiggled her loose tooth until it fell out, so that was a fun surprise when I picked her up from school! (The picture is not great, but she wanted to show everyone her missing tooth.)
As we got ready for the Tooth Fairy to come for a visit, John Bay made a decision....he was going to give her his "bap bap", but he wanted a new dump truck in return! We wrote the Tooth Fairy a note and bagged up all of the pacifiers from around the house and put them under his pillow. It was a rough night, but the tooth fairy came through! She stopped by to visit MV and JB! Although JB loves his new dump truck, he is not at all happy with the Tooth Fairy. He has told us repeatedly that he is going to fly up to heaven in his rocket ship and snatch his bap baps and tell the tooth fairy not to take them anymore! We are still having a hard time going to bed and the nap has completely gone away...but that is the price I will have to pay to get rid of the pacifier!
I was lucky enough to have a Girl's Night Out with Fran and Stefani on Saturday night. The boys and the kids had a fun dinner at Zippy's! I wish that I had been able to get a picture of the 3 husbands and 5 kids! For those of you who don't know, Zippy's is pretty close to LSU, so there were a lot of college age kids there too. I would have loved to have seen them all there! Sunday, we took in the sights of the zoo - I am not sure what we were thinking heading to the zoo when it was almost 100 degrees outside, but the kids loved it and the rode around in style!
(JB watching the tigers)
(The giraffe was disturbingly close to the fence...he could have reached out and touched/bit any of us. Ed had a staring contest with him - the giraffe was giving him the evil eye most of the time!)
During nap time on Monday, MV was bored (no surprise), so she wiggled her loose tooth until it fell out, so that was a fun surprise when I picked her up from school! (The picture is not great, but she wanted to show everyone her missing tooth.)
As we got ready for the Tooth Fairy to come for a visit, John Bay made a decision....he was going to give her his "bap bap", but he wanted a new dump truck in return! We wrote the Tooth Fairy a note and bagged up all of the pacifiers from around the house and put them under his pillow. It was a rough night, but the tooth fairy came through! She stopped by to visit MV and JB! Although JB loves his new dump truck, he is not at all happy with the Tooth Fairy. He has told us repeatedly that he is going to fly up to heaven in his rocket ship and snatch his bap baps and tell the tooth fairy not to take them anymore! We are still having a hard time going to bed and the nap has completely gone away...but that is the price I will have to pay to get rid of the pacifier!
After the excitement of the Tooth Fairy visit, we went right back into our regular routine of school, painting, and horseback riding!
I was lucky enough to have a Girl's Night Out with Fran and Stefani on Saturday night. The boys and the kids had a fun dinner at Zippy's! I wish that I had been able to get a picture of the 3 husbands and 5 kids! For those of you who don't know, Zippy's is pretty close to LSU, so there were a lot of college age kids there too. I would have loved to have seen them all there! Sunday, we took in the sights of the zoo - I am not sure what we were thinking heading to the zoo when it was almost 100 degrees outside, but the kids loved it and the rode around in style!
(JB watching the tigers)
(The giraffe was disturbingly close to the fence...he could have reached out and touched/bit any of us. Ed had a staring contest with him - the giraffe was giving him the evil eye most of the time!)
After a long hot day at the zoo, we had a chance to cool off and we finally did the one thing that I have been putting off since we got here...we stopped and bought some crawfish tails. Now, let me tell you that we got the crawfish from the gas station by our house, a little bit scary if you ask me! Ed decided that he would cook for us, and we had delicious crawfish ettouffe! What a wonderful way to end the week!
We are so excited about the upcoming week! Mimi and Balba are coming to visit and Ed and I are heading to New Orleans to celebrate our anniversary!
I have been painting even more, so check out my new artwork!
I'm so proud of John bay for giving up his passies...remind me to hide carolines when we see you in two weeks! And I can't believe MV lost a tooth! How fun!!!!
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