Silas lost his first teeth!

In the beginning of December, we noticed that Silas' bottom front tooth was loose.  That was weird, he was only 4½ and I had never heard of anyone having loose teeth so early.  A few days later, we realized that both bottom front teeth were loose.  So we concluded that Silas must have hit them on something and knocked them loose.  Within a week, both teeth fell out on the same day!  The first one in pre-school and then second one while he was brushing his teeth at night.  He was so excited about it.  We don't really like the idea of the tooth fairy, so we just said that he could put his teeth under his pillow and then they would get exchanged for something.  In the morning there was money under his pillow and a few days later he used it to buy a Spiderman mask!

About a week after the teeth fell out, we could see that the adult teeth were growing in!  Much too quickly Silas has a set of adult teeth where the once adorable gap had been!  Wow, he is getting so big!!

Here is the big boy showing off his gap!

Hockey weekend!

This past weekend has been full of hockey and a lot of fun,  Saturday I had a game at 4:30pm and the boys came to watch.  I had to be there at 3:15pm so Søren and the boys went and got a McFlurry before the game.  It was a fun and intense game and the boys had a fun time climbing up and down the bleachers.  Søren was able to watch a lot of the game, and I thought it was so much fun to have my fans in the stands.  During the game I got a penalty for roughing....I was pushing a girl out from in front of the goalie, and apparently I was a little to rough! Anyway, the first thing Silas says to me when I see him after the game is "Mommy, why did you have to go and sit for yourself? What did you do wrong?"  He was very interested in that.

On the way home, Silas said multiple times that he really wanted to play hockey soon.  So Søren and I agreed that he should and in fact the next day, Sunday, they have "dad"/son hockey for kids under eight at the rink. It is free and they have helmets, skates and sticks to use. Anyway, Silas and I went to the practive and Silas loved it so much.  He improved a lot too and was able to shoot the puck and get up again by himself after falling down.  He was so excited about getting to wear a realy helmet and have a stick.  At one point Silas started pushing a chair around, as he has seen many of the other kids do, but the "coach" came over and said that he was too good to push the chair around and that he should just keep going.  We were able to pass the puck around and it was amazing to see how much better Silas did with the skating when he concentrated on something else.    Sometimes we took a "break" and I pulled Silas around on his put, just to make it even more fun.  But then he would say, "Mommy, I want to score goals again".

When we were done Silas didn't want to go home and asked many times on the way home when he could play hockey again!  :-)

Go Herning!