Field Trip to Krispy Kreme

I love to take our annual field trip to Krispy Kreme with my preschool kids. It is so fun to see how the donut making machines work and to see the kids expressions on their faces when they touch the dough (they alway say "eewww!"). The guys at Krispy Kreme do a good job explaining everything and making it fun for the kids. Thanks to the moms (and dad) who came along to help!! After we came back to the preschool classroom, I asked the kids what they thought of the field trip and they said "YUMMY!". I think that sums it up - yummy - what a great word.

Blue & Gold 2009

Each year in Cub Scouts we have a banquet celebrating the Cub Scout organization. It's a fun opportunity for the boys to decorate cakes with the dads for whatever the theme is for that year, and these cakes are entered into a contest and then become the desserts for the banquet. This year it was "American ABC's". They scratched their heads a little over this one but then the idea came to them to do the letters "USA", it's definitely American and those are letters so it worked well with the theme. There were cakes in the shape of flags, a Liberty Bell, Idaho shaped cakes, a few hamburger shaped cakes, as well as some shaped like landmarks in our country. It's amazing to see how creative some of these dads can get when they are competing with other dads.

This is our 9th Blue & Gold (you go to a lot of these when you have 4 boys!) and we have seen every theme you can think of. We have done "earth" shaped cakes, on in the shape of a wave, and many in the shapes of animals. I love to watch my boys create with their dad. This is our last year in Cub Scouts as my youngest son is about to turn 10 and at 11 they join Boy Scouts. It's a bittersweet feeling! I am excited for my youngest to join his older 3 brothers and yet it will be strange to close this chapter on Cub Scouts. We will just have to really enjoy this last year and make lots of memories, they truly grow up too fast!!

Another missing tooth and controversy in the household!

So our little princess has lost her second tooth and why do you ask would this cause controversy? Well all of my boys sat through Kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade watching all of their classmates lose teeth and have their name on the coveted "die cut tooth" for the month. They would come home and ask me "Mom, why don't I lose my teeth". I would then explain that all children lose their teeth at different times and they would eventually lose their.

With our first son, he was in the 3rd grade before he even had a loose tooth and we had to read "Arthur's Tooth" many times to show him that he wasn't strange and everyone has their own time schedule for lost teeth.

Now fast forward, 4 boys later, none of which lost any teeth before 2nd grade. It has become a legend in the Fenn household that Fenn's just don't lose their teeth early. Along comes the princess, the only girl, and of course the one child who truly walks to the beat of her own drummer. She is in Kindergarten and in November she loses her first tooth. The boys about lost it, they were so mad, but they chalked it up to the fact that it must be a fluke. Now we are in March and she has lost her second tooth. Needless to say, they are livid and they now believe that the legend of Fenn's losing their teeth later is a bunch of baloney. She is paving a new trail and now the older ones think she may lose all of her teeth before they do!!