he's six, for real now!

I love this boy of mine! All not-quite-40-pounds of him. He's so very different from his older brother, that going through these growing-up stages again with him is a totally different bag of beans.  Max is SUCH a keener, a go-getter. Marty is a watcher, a snuggler, often a lone ranger.  It seems he has stayed little longer than Max. And that's okay with me!

I've checked his teeth for wigglers a few times and have not noticed anything moving. (Turns out I should have been checking more closely for other things as the boy has a sizeable cavity that I failed to notice! More on that another day.) On Friday, not quite one week after turning six, he announced his tooth was really really wiggly. Indeed it was, so we revelled in the excitement of that and carried on with our day.

We helped Sharon do her part in setting up tables and chairs for her boys' fun fair. We did that for an hour then took off with all 5 boys until the party started. First stop - McD's for ice cream for the boys and iced coffee for the girls.  Then off to the park where they all played SO nicely, happily and mostly responsibly. Max and Marty had a very hard time staying away from the water feature at this park!

Then back to the school for the fair.  They lined up like ducks in a row and painted pictures of soup cans. Then the nice people from 4Cats Art Studio taped them to the table to dry and we forgot to pick them up when we left. You'll see why we were so distracted in the next photo!

Cake Walk JACKPOT! 

It's possible that we knew such a fancy cake had been entered in the game, and it's possible that we sat and staked out the activity for several rounds before jumping in. And it's even remotely possible that we paid very close attention to when this cake would be brought to the centre. And we absolutely gave all our tickets at once and filled half the spaces of the game with us and our children.  There was quite a lot of buzz in the air as this cake was up for grabs, but it was all above the head (literally) of the winner - my wee little Jaxon! He had been staying close to me all around the circle and when the music stopped he had to go all the way across from me to land on the empty number. And that's the number that was called! We were delighted (one boy in our entourage was dejected, thinking the cake was gone from his life forever) and made a bee-line for the door.  Sharon put the cake in the car and we quickly realized our time to enjoy the rest of the fair was gone, considering the temperature and the fragile nature of the cake.  My boys played a few more carnival games, grabbed some prizes, and we headed for home.

We actually said, later on our drive, at the same time, "Start the caaarrrrr!"

The cake now sits in my spare fridge, awaiting a lunch-time birthday celebration for Isaac with his brother and their combined 50 classmates who are coming to camp for a field trip tomorrow.

What makes this even more special is that Sharon's friend made the cake, and she has made Isaac's birthday cakes for the past two years as well, so the tradition continues. And there will be some very happy students when they see they get to partake of this creation, after all!

Now, back to Marty! As we entered the school grounds, I noticed blood around his lips. Oh dear, not a good time to lose a tooth. I actually convinced him to let me try to pull it out, so he wouldn't actually physically lose it, as in - never to be found - if it became loose enough to fall out. I made a cautious attempt but decided it wasn't ready. So we carried on with all the excitement you just read about. Then on Saturday, Paul took the boys to the grocery store with him and came home with a very excited little boy with a gap in his smile! Then came the news that the tooth wasn't just lost out of his mouth, it was lost for good, somewhere at the store! He didn't even notice it had come out until he decided to try wiggling it and it was already gone.

So what's a Tooth Fairy to do? I actually didn't even think about it as I put him to bed. Max was more interested in keeping all his teeth and it became a non-issue with him. So now with Marty, my thought was, no tooth, no prize. Early the next morning I found out that Paul told him the Tooth Fairy would probably still come even if there was no tooth under his pillow. He told us that he checked everywhere and couldn't find any prize! I quickly checked my wallet and snuck into his room with a shiny new 2012 Toonie. I then suggested to Marty that maybe the Tooth Fairy was confused because he had an extra mattress on his bed, or maybe the prize fell behind his mattress against the wall, or maybe it was even under his mattress. Would you believe, after further inspection, it was there!  

Max wants to trade the shiny toonie for one of his old ones. 

Marty wants to keep his shiny toonie and he plans to buy some bubble gum.