Wednesday - Ladies' Night #2

I am going to try to post every Wednesday night with some candids from this week's ladies night...

Here are Roses #2 and #3 with me - now that Rose #1 has lost a tooth, she is mature enough to take a photo.  :-)

My digital camera has various settings, none of which I actually know how to operate.  There is apparently a setting called "flowing hair shots."  Rose #1 was being goofy and I caught her hair in midswish:
And Rose #2, in her Chequamegon t-shirt, is just so solid and cute.  She is SO smiley (except when she is mad because she doesn't get exactly as much CANDY as she wants).
Another swishy hair shot, this time Rose #3:
And a very, very funny shot of Rose #3, taken by Rose #2:
Once again, I LOVE nights with my girls.  Aren't they just DOLLS?

The Photo You've Been Waiting For

Well, it doesn't have quite the dramatic effect I was hoping for, but here is the "lost tooth" shot:

It is hard to see the gap where Rose #1's baby tooth was, since the big girl teeth are right behind there... but the baby tooth fell out today!   I remember so clearly the night she got her first baby tooth - we were helping Heidi and Jay move into their first house.  Guppy had just returned from England, visting her friend Judy Windeler, and I was so proud to tell Guppy that Rose #1 had a tooth!  Yay.  Fast forward 6 years and now she lost the tooth!

Guppy made a fabulous tooth pillow, where the baby tooth is currently nestled, and where (hopefully anyway) the Tooth Fairy will leave the bounty (whatever the going rate is) for the first lost tooth.

This just in...

Rose #1 lost her first tooth!

Pictures to follow.

Letter to Grandpa Pete

(Transcribed from handwritten letter by Rose #1)

Dear Grandpa Pete,
My tooth is dangling by a thread. I got a lot of new muscles this year. I know how to play chess! It's really cool learning how to play chess. I learned at chess club. How is the weather over there. It's warmer here. (Whew) Write me back soon. Your granddaughter, Ellie

p.s. Happy Valentine's Day

Playdate with Ruhi

We had a very fun playdate this weekend with Rose #1's old friend Ruhi! We got a chance to see Ruhi's newly remodelled house in Minneapolis, and then we went to the Wild Rumpus bookstore.  That is a crazy place.  They have a rooster, a tarantula, some ferrets, birds, and cats.  Oh yes, and lots of books!  Rose #1 had to take benadryl before we went.   They also had a life size poster of Barack Obama!  Rose #3 says "Banka Banka" for Barack Obama.  It is cute.

Each girl picked out a new book.  Ruhi picked a Mo Willems pigeon book.  Here she is, reading it to us!!  I have known Ruhi since she was a little baby in the baby room at day care, and now she is reading a book to me.  It was a sight to behold.

In case you think that Rose #1 had her fingers in her mouth, you are right.  She is about to lose her first tooth (FINALLY) and her bottom left tooth is very, very loose.  Danglingly loose.  And Rose #3, you can see, found a hammer that she carried around all weekend.  She kept banging every surface in sight:  "I am fixing your [car] [table] [wall] [glasstop table]." 

On Sunday night we had friends over for dinner - H's old high school friend, his wife, and their two boys Daniel and Thomas.  The Roses were in heaven!  They love playing with older kids and especially love playing with kids who actually like Nerf guns, Star Wars, and jumping from the bunkbed.

Wednesday Classes Are Back On - and It's Ladies' Night!

On Wednesday nights, H is in class, so it is Ladies' Night again!  We had a lovely dinner of turkey burgers and french fries, corn and fruit salad.  Yum!  After dinner we cleaned up, made Rose #1's lunch, had dessert, worked on Rose #1's comic book (for homework!) and took baths.  Here is Rose #3 after her bath, being silly on the ladder of Rose #1's bed:

And Rose #2 is a lovely bathing beauty:
And Rose #1 heard about Michael Phelps somewhere (not his latest unfortunate news, I trust) and she was pretending that she was either Mr. Phelps himself, or at the very least an Olympic swimmer:
I really like having an evening with my girls.  

A few photos...

I got a gem of an e-mail from my sister-in-law with some excellent 2008 photos. So, forgive the walk down memory lane:

Here are Roses #2 and 3, and their cousin Maddie, sleeping over at Maddie's house. I think this was when H and I were in Florida for our anniversary. I LOVE how Rose #3 is gazing at Maddie. She LOVES Maddie.

This is a VERY old photo of Rose #3. But look at her morose expression and the ice cream goatee. Would you be able to resist publishing this photo?

Another shot of the fabulous three. Rose #2 and her cousin Maddie are just a few months apart in age. Aren't they so cute together?

And the dynamic duo, Sam & Rose #1. They are really good friends. I hope they stay friends through thick and thin.