Losing Teeth

My little Caroline is so proud. Today she lost her very first tooth! 

Bentley came home from school on Monday announcing that his 3rd tooth had just fallen out. Cares has had a fairly loose tooth for more than a month now and decided that day to work on hers and get it out. She is so brave and just kept wiggling and tugging on it (and letting her mommy give it some solid pushes forward). This afternoon she asked me to help her one last time and out came her tooth! She was slightly crying and slightly cheering when she saw her tooth in my hand—it's painful work losing those teeth.

Both kids are eager to earn money via Tooth Fairy now. Bentley told me a girl in his class gets 3 dollars a tooth...what?? And I was thinking 50 cents was a normal amount...

In other news, Luke is getting better and better at napping in his bed, even when I put him in there awake. But he is still learning. And on Monday night he was so tired but not wanting to calm down and sleep—until I popped him in the sling. Then he slumbered so sweetly. Sometimes that is the only way to get dinner made around here.

We had Tahitian pancakes with fresh fruit (and nutella and powdered sugar) and sausage for dinner that night. Yummy! The pancakes are basically very sweet crepes made without any butter and spread on a big skillet so they are very large. The recipe is from Joseph's sister Flori who made them for us after a stay here a few years back. She is totally her mother's daughter in the kitchen so any recipe from her is a good one.