Big Summer

It's been a big summer with the Fort Worth Foxes. We went to California, Audrey lost a tooth AND got a "big girl" haircut, we hosted a big birthday bash and helped Caitlin get settled in at TCU. We are looking forward to this school year as Audrey starts first grade and Tatum starts in the "4 year old" class (well, she's almost 4!). Hud will stay home with me - I'm not ready to let that stinker go. He'll be a big 2-year-old next month! Here are some photos from the summer, in random order!

The Land of the Lost and a Lost Tooth

You know it's 107 outside when you hit the public library and come out with an assortment of books and a DVD of Disc 1 of the entire first season of "Land of the Lost..." Yes, there are THREE discs in the series and there are 17 episodes in the first season. As I have yet to find season 2 - I'm guessing Marshall, Will and Holly are either still trapped in that other dimension or Enik (the intelligent Sleestak) helped them through a portal with those colorful crystals. If that's true, then Holly is now "Ronny" - remember when her older self comes back to visit?? I have to admit, I LOVED that show when I was a kid - when the Kroftt Superstars show came on, I wished it was The Land of the Lost instead of the Bugaloos!!! But watching as an adult is an entirely different story!! It is so lame! And the stories are crazy and the props are terrible. But, everytime it was on, I would find myself drifting to a chair and sitting down to watch a few episodes! You know your a kid of the 70s if these Land of the Lost characters/props sound familiar: Chaka, Ta and Sa; Grumpy; Big Alice; Dopey; Sleestaks; pylons; Saresataka; Enik; S'Latch. There's so much more, but it's already taking up too much brain space, must stop remembering! I'll end my discussion of LOL with the theme song, which the girls now know and love (and love the show!):

Marshall, Will and Holly
On a routine expedition
When the greatest earthquake ever known
High on the rapids, struck their tiny raft (AHHHHHHH!!!!)
Plunged them down, a thousand feet below (really, only 1,000 feet??)
To the land of the lost
To the land of the lost

I apologize now for putting that song in your head...on to the Land of the Lost Tooth...Audrey lost her first tooth! It was a bloody, painful, experience that was all forgotten once said tooth was removed and the promise of the Tooth Fairy was remembered...she was so excited! It's a bottom tooth - I think she's the only girl in her kindergarden class who hadn't lost a tooth by the end of the year...She's such a big girl! The next post will be about her big Hawaiin luau birthday party. I think we're way in over our heads!! I'll post pictures next time. And by then, Caitlin will be here and getting settled in at TCU!! Woo hoo!!