My Teeth and Bella's

I got my wisdom teeth taken out on Friday morning. Here is a picture of me right after I came home. Mel and I decided that I would not be pretty on drugs, especially if my mouth looks like that. I'm feeling pretty good and I'm trying to stay off the more serious pain medications. Steve has taken awesome care of me! Lots of mashed potatoes and pudding.





On a fun note...Bella has started sprouting some upper teeth! I think we have spotted one or two on the top row that are close to coming. Little shnoodle is growing up!

Snow!

We finally got snow! For us Southerners, we were excited it just stayed on the ground. I took a few pictures of the back and front yards...don't laugh!



And this is looking out the front door. (Notice the front step) I was so happy to see that it was still there on Friday morning. We'll see if it lasts the weekend...

We're Back...with lots of babies!

I haven't blogged in so long, I doubt anyone in the family still checks. I decided to start again slowly. Wednesdays are definitely our "hump" days around here. If I can get through today okay, I always feel it's an easy ride to the weekend. It's a good day with the babies so far. Yesterday, Bella crawled around and ate a leaf off the floor, which then caused her to gag and throw up everywhere. Her increasing mobility is definitely causing me to re-think some of my living room decorations.

Friday is my surgery on my wisdom teeth. Hopefully, I'll remember to post some pictures of my face all chubby and swollen.

March

Is March really almost over? This has been a crazy month - very social and very busy. This weekend is the Ladies' Retreat with church friends - we're all driving about two hours north of ATL for Friday night and Saturday. We do a lot of singing and bonding, and I think there's a talent show that involves lip-synching to Vanilla Ice. :) Steve will be hanging out at home with the guys. A bunch of them are getting together for a BBQ and possibly a golf game. I think Steve's just happpy to not have to do anything baby-related for an entire weekend.

Floors!!!

Here's some before, during and after pics of our new floors. They've been down a week and we love them! I couldn't get them to post in order so the light wood and carpet is the "old" and anything dark wood is what we had put down. We have several rugs that fill the space as well now. The dogs are learning they can't run on them now, they're much slicker than the old floors. Harley ends up spread eagle several times during the day out of excitement, he'll learn soon enough!

Baby Toys!

Here are the latest and greatest...and final...toys for Baby Bella. We received a pack 'n' play from Steve's coworkers, and today we grabbed a bouncer and bathtub. She can come anytime now!

School Lockdown

My middle school was on lockdown for about 2 hours this morning. The police got a tip that some students were going to bring a gun to school. They ended up grabbing two male students who had an unloaded handgun and found a third guy at home who had more guns with him. It all went down very undramatically, but I guess it could've been a lot worse. Our teachers and students handled it really well. The rest of our day has been pretty pointless - our front office has been mobbed with parents coming to check out their kids. I only have 5 kids in my class right now. Such fun! And here I thought I was moving to suburbia and getting away from weapons and drugs. Why is it always the white kids that end up being the crazy ones?