Teeth!

An update. Joshua is up four, and Samantha is (almost) down one. Samantha raced up the stairs when she got home yesterday to tell me she had a loose tooth. Add as much breathless excitement and sparkly eyes to that statement as you can imagine and that is about what she looked and sounded like. She keeps poking at it. She asked Matt last night if the tooth fairy would come and yank it out of her mouth while she was sleeping. I thought she was worried about it, but Matt said, no, she sounded actually hopeful at the thought. After lunch today she finally was grossed out about something. Her tooth bled a little from being moved so much while eating. She was fine two seconds later. The tooth really is quite loose and may come out today. The tooth behind it looks huge to me, but maybe because the others are just so tiny. Samantha informs me that the going rate for a tooth is one dollar. Oh really? If Oliver is jealous about the tooth, she will give him half of her dollar. She misses him alot.

Joshua is still zipping around while crawling, although he stands more and more often. He had a fever last week which turned out to be Roseola; he got a little rash a few days after the fever broke. He's fine now. He went to Sabrina and Sasha's birthday party this morning with Samantha. We spotted him as he climbed on all the equipment and rolled around. The other kids are so nice and careful about not stepping on him.

He is making some sounds that seem like words. Sam was saying dumptruck over and over as she dumped water on her soapy head in the bath. I swear Josh mimicked her exact intonation. Jessica, Marie's youngest girl, told me that Josh said "peek" to her the other day, but he hasn't wanted to share that with Mommy yet.