A Visit from the Tooth Fairy

On Sunday Quin was laying on the couch and said "Mom, my tooth hurts."
I replied, "Go tell your dad to look at it"
Bryce checked out his mouth and pronounced that he had a loose tooth.  I was surprised! He just turned 5.  However, the family dentist assured us that it was a normal time to get loose teeth.  Whew!

Well, Quin spent the next few hours wiggling that tooth and then at dinner was frustrated because he couldn't eat without his tooth hurting.  So, to my utter shock, he asked his dad to pull it out.  Bryce, being somewhat of a teeth pulling expert, was able to yank that snaggle-tooth right out.

That night Quin got a visit from the tooth-fairy and spent the next day either telling people to look at his smile or sitting and admiring the dollar he was given.

The tooth-fairy cash was spent on a Darth Vader Action figure.  Yes, we have introduced Quin to Star Wars.  And yes his mind has been blown.

Having a 5 year old is exciting stuff!

More Quin Quotes: Cartoon Comparisons Edition

 So Quin has been cracking me up lately.  Here are a few recent quotes:

1.  Quin found a measuring tape.  He came up to me and held it up to my back.  I asked him what size I was and he replied "Just Perfect."  Talk about a self-esteem boost.  I felt like Mary Poppins, however Quin's measuring was even better than "practically perfect in every way" I think.

2.  Quin's favorite cartoon character is currently Ursula.  Yep. Ursula.  Let me illustrate this fact with two instances.

a. Today Quin told me that his two favorite people are me and Ursula.  Sorry Bryce.

b.  Yesterday I wore my Little Mermaid sweater.  Quin looked at it and said "Can I have an Ursula shirt?"

I told him we will put it on our list to Santa.

3.  Quin always likes the bad guy in cartoons.  Sometimes this worries me.  Currently his favorite movie is "Princess and the Frog."  His favorite character in this movie is "the Shadow Man."  Creepy, I know.  However, I did think it was kind of cute when we were at the zoo and a caught him doing this....

 ...clearly he is not afraid to reverse the Shadow Man's evil spells.  I think this is a good thing.

4.  Dilly Dallin had a cold a little while back.  While the picture below does not show him with the runny nose, try to imagine two green tentacles leaking out of his nose.  That is how Dallin looked for a few days.  Gross.

 Quin's comment to his appearance was that "Dallin looks like the seaweed creature."  Now for those of you who don't watch Godzilla regularly, the seaweed creature is a green, slimy monster.  I think Quin's description was pretty accurate.

5.  During General Conference weekend, Quin informed me that he has two favorite Thomases.  Thomas the Train and Thomas S. Monson.  Thomases are basically awesome.

Now I think it is time for us to lay off of the cartoons for a while...

Fall Fun at Disneyland

Dallin's favorite thing to do at Disneyland is meet characters.  Especially the soft, cute, cuddly characters. Unfortunately these characters usually have very long lines waiting the greet them.  I have tried several times to wait in these lines, only to have to leave because Dally is throwing a rip-roaring tantrum.  Dallin does not like to wait to hug the characters.  When he sees them he must hug them. Immediately.

Now that you know Dallin's background, let us explain why he has such a happy face in the picture below.

This past Monday I discovered a little sign a Disneyland that said there was a fall festival going on in the Big Thunder area.  I haven't ventured to Big Thunder in quite some time because it has been closed for months.  However, we decided to go check out this fall festival.  And I am so glad we did.   When we walked in we were told that the kids could color some masks for free so we headed to the "mask coloring station."  Low and behold, who did we see coloring there?  Goofy himself!

 Well Dallin was thrilled.  He ran up to Goofy, held his hand, and gave him  a hug.

 Grammy and Quin then proceeded to sit down and color with Goofy for the next 15 minutes.  (Side note about Goofy:  Goofy went in the back to "go take a nap at the clubhouse" and 10 minutes later an extremely attractive young man walked out in sweats. Mysteriously he was the same height as Goofy and had a very similar stance as Goofy.  Let's just say it made me and Grammy a little sad that we had not given Goofy a hug ourselves).

After the mask coloring was complete, Quin decided he needed to go scare a few people with his spider-mask-creation.  Who better to scare than Dale?!?  Quin walked up to Dale, put on his spider mask and yelled "roar" (what else would a spider say?).  Dale jumped back in surprise and then proceeded to show his witch mask to Quin and pretended to put a spell on him.  They had fun playing this mask-scaring-peek-a-boo game.  A few minutes later some music started playing and it was announced over the speakers that it was time to dance!

 Well this lovely lady came up to Quin and asked him to dance.  He was a little shy, but jumped in there when he saw Dallin run up to Minnie for a hug.

 Meanwhile, Mommy and Grammy were not invited to dance by the adorable Goofy... I mean Disney characters.  Probably because we were standing under this sign.  Oh, well.

I have got to say this was one of the funnest afternoon's we have had a Disneyland!  Glad we got to kick off Autumn with some of our favorite pals!