Vonnahme family blog

Last night, as her group viola lesson was starting, that tiny little tooth wiggled out!

This morning, the tooth fairy had exchanged it for a dollar and three pieces of candy. I wonder if the tooth fairy is
immune to this global economic crisis thing?

Beren lost his first tooth today, a few days before his 7th birthday.
Looking at the tiny thing, we felt like it was only moments ago that we first noticed it in his mouth. He had a one-tooth smile, just as endearing in a new way as his toothless baby smile.
Now he has a minus-one-tooth smile, but it’s just as endearing, in a new way, as his perfect baby tooth smile.

On priorities:

— George Herbert, The Temple

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It’s been almost exactly a year we last wrote about Cirdan’s “talking”. His current lexicon, sorted again by frequency:

He actually communicates his thoughts pretty well. It’ll be nice when he can enunciate a little more clearly, but it’s fun to remember his idiosyncrasies. He’s learning language a lot like Beren did.

Lily’s funnest recent word is “weller”, as in “You’re doing that weller now, Cirdan, GOOD JOB!” Shouldn’t that logically be more correct than “better” as a comparative adverb?

Dictated to his mother on March 6, 2008

Once upon a time there were five tan colored mice living on a houseboat on the Yukon River. They anchored it sometimes and went fishing. Sometimes they would put shrimp pots in the ocean. The mice’s names were: Lily, Beren, Cirdan, Nathan and Betsy. And they liked to help. Lily, Beren and Cirdan liked to help Nathan and Betsy with their houseboat work. I have to say that they loved fishing!
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