The Molinator

Today was a busy work day for Daddy - though Saturdays should be taking an abrupt change relatively soon.  This would be the only day to spend with Madison from this point on, so Daddy may be shifting from Saturdays to Mondays in regards to work schedule.

But that's not the big news of the day:

Madison lost her first tooth today!  It was wiggly in the morning when Daddy left for work, and upon returning home in the afternoon for a bit... she showed me the evidence!

It looks like tonight we're getting a visit from the Tooth Fairy.  Or the Molinator, as he likes to occasionally be called.  Now, I'm not entirely sure if we'll have a visit from The Rock or the Molinator. If it were up to Madison and Mommy, it'll probably be a more feminine Tooth Fairy.  Evidently, there are quite a few tooth fairies out there.  We'll see who shows up - hopefully, we can snap a photo if there's a visitation tonight.  You just know there'll be a visitation - this is a first tooth, so it's kind of a big deal!

 Tooth Fairy:  "The Molinator. I like it. Thank you, Santa. Can we vote right now on The Molinator?"

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012

School Days

Here's the sermon intro that Josh developed for us for the series School Days, which we've been enjoying this month at KidPak.  The idea was to coincide this series launch with the new school year's launch.

Madison's first week at school has been a good one.  Today's color was blue, so Madison wore her Olympic-themed shirt and looked pretty cute in it!  We actually got there to the school about ten minutes earlier, and still waited in line for about a mile.  Again, that is not an exaggeration - but that's the thing at schools lately, I guess.   I don't remember that growing up, but then again I rode the bus.

There are plenty of reasons we drop Madison off at school.  Number one:  she actually gets an hour more of sleep.  Sure, we could get her to bed earlier, but in order to get enough sleep each night, she'd have to go to bed at 7:00 - 7:30, which is pretty early.  Example:  the other night was our Back-to-School Bash at church.  It was a thing for kids, and it started at 7:00 pm.

Another reason is safety:  we're not 100% yet the bus.  The other day, Madison almost got off at the wrong stop.  The bus driver would have let her get off too, if it wasn't for a neighbor who spotted the error.  Imagine the terror there, if she had actually gotten off at the wrong stop:  the bus arriving at our stop, and Madison not on it.

Finally, the school is less than five minutes away.  Which is one of the reasons we moved here, actually.  It's pretty conveniently close!

Anyway, while she's still young and new at this, we'll drop her off at school.  I know we're contributing to the long lines in the morning, but Madison is very young still, and for the time being this is the best strategy for her.  Later on, we'll do the bus thing in the morning.

Madison came home with a little fever this afternoon.  Medicine helped, and she was feeling better after a bit - but she has a cough, and we're all thinking, "Here we go again!"

Fortunately, she doesn't seem that bad.  In fact, when Daddy got home she was propped up on the couch watching more "Jake and the Neverland Pirates," the copy we found at the library yesterday.  We tried to hide that on the way home, but she still found out about it somehow.  It was supposed to be a surprise, little stinkerpot!  We'd best be careful at Christmastime now, eh?

Anyway, the rest of the night was spent in piracy.  Ever since meeting Jack Sparrow, it's been all pirate for Madison.  Jake and the Neverland Pirates didn't make the pirate fever go down any:  this DVD had a Pirate Princess in it.  That's why Madison went upstairs to get her pirate queen outfit to wear the rest of the night.  We popped in the Lego Pirates game again, and even watched a few snippets from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies here and there (the ones that seemed safest to Mommy and Daddy).  Yes, we had our own Buccaneer Blast right in our own home!

Arrr!