Violet's Fun Week

While Cora went to Hollywood U2, Violet had a music adventure of her own.

She went with Colleen and Rigo to Glory SCV, a big Christian music festival. She spent the night with Liana, and the girls spent the whole day together on Saturday, too. After spending so much time with Cora's friends (all boys) lately, it was especially nice for Violet to be with a girl her own age.

Violet lost her second bottom front tooth this week, and she had a funny message for the Tooth Fairy.

Funny, if a bit demanding.

We sense a bit of Calvin and Hobbes with this note.

Here was the TF's response. And Violet's reaction to that response.

We chatted in the evening and Violet is aware of the truth of the TF. Oh well, at least her first (and maybe second) lost tooth happened while she still believed.

Violet attended Vacation Bible School this week, and was in a group with Liana. Here was her group's turn to lead the singing on stage.

On Wednesday, Violet and I hit the final free June breakfast at Chick Fil A before VBS. Yum!

Week in Review

On Monday, the girls were off school for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and they woke up at Grandma's house. They did crafts in their jammies until I picked them up around 3 p.m.

Then, we headed to Summit Park with the balance bike and roller skates. Daddy met us there, and we had fun until dinner time.

We decided to eat at the Habit, one of our favorite places. Violet entertained us with her orange peel mustache.

And Cora needed to show off her super-wiggly tooth.

This is the tooth she fretted and moaned about during our trip to the Santa Monica pub Sunday, and fretted and moaned about during dinner and the drive home Monday.

Stace took matters into his own hands, and bingo, Tooth No. 6 was out. Then, Cora was so happy, excited, and giddy, chattering on and on.

She wrote this adorable note to the tooth fairy: "Dear tooth fairy, I lost my 6 tooth! Do not think I am asking for sumthing. All I would like is your love."

Pioneer Club held "crazy hair" night this week. Cora, as usual, did not participate. Violet was excited about it, though, and every girl in her Skipper class had crazy hair! Violet had pony tails with colorful plastic clothespins.








On Thursday, we had a lunch playdate at the park. Our friend Sara and her daughter Alli joined us,and the girls had fun with the kids' meal toy.








On Saturday, Cora helped out Melanie by acting with her in a scene Melanie had filmed, for a reel to show potential acting agents. Cora was nervous at first, but did a good job with her lines and ended up having a lot of fun. She told me that night she was sad it was over, and wished she could do it all again.

Melanie and Nick had dinner with us, and after the girls went to bed, we watched a movie.

Big milestones

This week was full of milestones.

Violet and I cheered on Auntie Melly, as she received her bachelor's in theatre arts at California State University, Northridge on Tuesday. We're so proud of you, Melanie!

The graduation was at 8 a.m., which meant an early morning for this little one, but she was amazingly well-behaved for the 2-hour-plus ceremony. Snacks and drawing kept her busy and content.

 On Thursday night, Cora had her Open House at school, where we could see all the great work her class has done this year.

See how strange this photo looks? This is why I haven't updated the blog lately - I kept hoping this photo, and the next one, would load properly, as vertical pictures. Instead, they are compressed crazily into horizontals.




The other milestone of the week - see that hole? Cora lost her first tooth, in the classroom during Open House!

I was speaking to Mrs. Hawthorne and Cora kept pounding my arm to interrupt - I corrected her, but then I understood why she was interrupting!

No blood, and no pain. Sadly, we now also have no tooth. She was showing the Roberts later that evening, and it popped out the little envelope into the grass. Bye bye, first tooth!

Thankfully, thanks in part to a note Ave wrote on Cora's behalf to the tooth fairy, the tooth fairy still came. She left Cora $2 and a precious box for keeping safe her first second lost tooth safe.

Here's a clearer photo of Cora's new hole. Strange, I remember feeling that little thing as it first emerged, when our friends Andy and Jenny were visiting from England when Cora was 8 months old. We were driving around Beverly Hills at the time, if I remember correctly.