Trying to pull out my really loose tooth

Here is an all-too familiar scene not unlike my own childhood. I remember my mom trying to get me to pull my teeth out. I looked a lot like this. If you'll notice--Elle's tooth isn't even straight in the picture. That's because it's only holding on by one little piece of tooth string. I told her she had to pull it out herself because I didn't want to be responsible for her pain. She wiggled and wiggled, but no luck. She asked me to help, so I suggested the ol' dental floss method. She refused to pull the strings. So, she asked Chris, and Grandma Harvey to help. No
luck. Grandma wouldn't and Chris couldn't.


Then she went to Kristen's house. I knew of Kristen' love of pulling teeth, so I asked her to help. About 5 minutes after we left, Kristen called to say it was out! Elle is now a (happy) toothless wonder.
Kristen said that when Elle bit into a strawberry, there was a nice little square hole!

I think Elle should tell about the pulling in her own words. . . [as always, the color goes with the theme]


Kristen said, "I'm gunna pull your tooth out with my fingernail." She looked which one was the sharpest. It was her thumb. Then she put her thumbnail under my tooth and pulled forward! It was quick as lightening! Connor got a rag wet and gave it to me. And then after that, she gave me a piece of ice to suck on and she said, "If you suck on this until it stops bleeding, it will stop bleeding." I had a gummy worm and I had an ice cream, before dinner! I looooooooove my tooth! The end!

My new dress

Chris took me shopping at Ann Taylor loft for our last date. I saw this dress . It wasn't exactly on sale, but it was so cute! Apparently Chris thought so too. You can see his version of it on his blog:
notprogramming.blogspot.com/ Pretty flattering, huh? Ya. Not every wife can say they inspire their husbands to draw such masterpieces of them!

Apple pie

Look at the apple pie Elle, Mom Harvey and I made. Isn't it pretty? Instead of double crust, I put an apple crisp top on. Then I made pie crust apples and Mom arranged them for me--she also beautified my crust. Yum! It tasted good too!

Comments

Apparently, I had some strange settings on my comments, so none of you faithful readers could comment. I think I had it set so they would go to my email first so I could filter them, but I didn't enter my email address. So, if you've ever left a comment--it must have drifted off into cyberspace. I just thought my blog was too lame to comment on. Can you count the number of times I used the word(s) comment(s) on this post about comments?

My day in love with stinkyfish!

[editors note: Elle chooses the color of the font to match the subject matter and today it is grey "because kipper snacks and fish are grey" she says"] Today I ate stinky fish with Daddy. And I was eating kipper snacks on the balcony. I was eating on the balcony because mom does NOT like the smell--but that's what I like about it! Mom came out and took a picture and my mouth was full when the picture was tooken, so I wasn't smiling. And Mom had lunch inside, but I think she still could smell it 'cause when we got inside, I could still smell it. Maybe it was from my mouth. the end.

Yet another girl's night out!

Stephenie Meyer, the author of Eclipse, was in Torrence Saturday, August 25th. We decided that for book club this month, we would have this as our book and take a field trip. There were only seven of us, though. Me, Kristen, Hannah, Robin, Allyson, Betsey, and her niece Katelyn. Robin drove the first five of us and we met Betsey at PF Changs. Dinner was delicious. Hannah recommended the shrimp with candied walnuts. Yum! No silly conversations this time. Then we headed over to Borders. There were masses of teenage girls milling around. We were herded toward the Cd isles and there we stayed. Even though I had my very tall wedge sandals on, I couldn't see over the racks to where Stephanie would be. We waited a little while until we heard girlish squeals, then we knew that she had arrived. She stood up and used a mic, so if I stood on tip toe and peeked through the shelves, I could see. Most of her followers are vampire lovers and under age 20. Except us, of course. They were also all dressed in black and various styles of Goth. Stephanie answered questions and she'd say, "girl in the black shirt" or "girl in the black tank top" or girl in the black sweatshirt" most of the time. It was funny. Lots of black. I don't remember any really insightful questions, or I'd write the answers here. After we got our books signed, we got a pin. However, we had to choose between "I love Edward" and "I love Jacob." I've been a Jacob fan the whole time, but he was kind of a jerk in this book at first, and Edward was a psycho control freak, so I didn't like him either. The tent scene with Jacob was great. I was pro Jacob then. In the end, I liked Edward more than I ever have, so I picked up the "I love Edward" pin--but I don't really mean it. Hopefully, any of you who read this entry will be daunted by the size of this paragraph and won't read this far to see what a psycho I am for being so in to this teenage book.

Actual disneyland pictures

Elle loves fairy's--especially Tinkerbell, so here she is posing with her. It was so hot, we spent a lot of time in indoor attractions. for instance, we went all learned how to draw Tigger inside a building dedicated to animation--I forget what it's called.

Ya gotta have your cartoony car picture, of course.

No, Elle didn't loose her arms, she's pretending she has fairy wings.

Now she's pretending she's in a beautiful meadow.