WHERE HAVE I BEEN?

It's been almost a month since my last post. Wow. It's not that I haven't had anything to write about. I actually have four posts in the works at this moment. I wish I had more time right now to ponder and write about all sorts of things...but...life happens you know. And we had some big time life stuff happen...drum roll please...we went to DisneyWorld! Yes, we took the three kids and even let my husband's brother and his wife tag along. We had a lot of fun - even with all the walking, waiting and screaming kids. One of my husband's coworkers who goes to DW often nicknamed it "Tragic Kingdom". It does seem like that when you've been walking hour after hour and waiting in line for Dumbo, Splash Mountain and Rockin' Roller Coaster. But we survived. I'll have to post more later - including pictures.

One of my children lost a couple things on the trip. We have a son who is more prone to accidents than others and his face hit the pavement in the Magic Kingdom one day when he fell off a railing. Argh! Picture a screaming six year old with a bloody mouth right in front of the Winnie the Pooh ride. Enter two EMTs with a gurney and a couple Disney personnel who make sure everything is OK. Our little boy was fine in due time less one front tooth. He even got a complimentary stuffed Tigger and popsicle out of the deal. Can you believe we proceeded to go on the Winnie the Pooh ride after that? He even rode Space Mountain two times after that!! What's even more funny about that incident is that the tooth he lost had suffered trauma several years before that. When he was around two years old, our same little son took a spill in the kitchen and shoved that same little tooth up into his gum. It took almost a year for that tooth to move back down into place. When he knocked it out last week it wasn't even loose so I guess he was never meant to have it in the first place. He wasn't done losing teeth either. The next night after we ate dinner I checked his mouth and noticed that one of his two very loose teeth on the bottom was gone. We never found it. I guess it fell into his food and he ate it or it just fell on the floor in the restaurant and was gone. I hope he remembers the excitement. It will certainly be one of the funniest family memories we'll look back on.