"A loose tooth and a new haircut!"

Emmy is feeling like a brand new woman! Yesterday morning she came into my room and woke me up to ask what she could eat for breakfast that wouldn't hurt her tooth. She told me it had been hurting for 3 days now, and I thought, "Oh great, she's got a cavity". Anyway, I told her to go make herself some oatmeal and fell back asleep. About 45 minutes later I awoke to her and Carter squealing and running into my room, "I have a loose tooth!!!" And then, of course, I got the wiggly demonstration by Emmy several times. Sure enough, she has her first loose tooth and she is super excited. As soon as it actually falls out I will post a pic.

As for the new haircut, her friends at school have been telling her she looks like Hannah Montana, which to a 2nd grade girl is quite the compliment. She decided that she wanted to have bangs like Hannah and so yesterday I took her to the beauty parlor to get her some bangs. As we were driving there she said with a giant, satisfied grin, "A loose tooth and a new haircut!" She loves her new bangs!

This is a picture I snuck of Emmy and Ashton playing "school'. They were using one of Lilly's rattles for a bell and in this picture Ashton was drawing various squiggly objects and then asking Emmy what they were. She would come up with some random thing and he would say, "That's right!" in his best teacher voice. Pretty fun!