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MY LITTLE SUCKER!

Baby Kae is a big thumbsucker! I don't know if it's because she's teething but we've been having a hard time taking her little thumb out of her mouth recently. We've made it to a point to try to take her thumb out every time she starts sucking. We've also told big sister, Kyla, to do the same. So just a few minutes ago, Kyla was watching Kae and she was surprisingly quiet. We figured, "She must be sucking her thumb again." Boy were we wrong! She was sucking something even better...



And Dadddy was there to capture the oh-so-yummy moment! Kyla was just sitting there letting her little sister nibble on her baby toe- it's keeping her quiet.

*Notice how we managed to take a picture? Instead of taking Kyla's toes out of Kae's mouth, I got Brice to take pictures while I started writing this blog!

KIDS LOVE CHRISTMAS!

Looking at all the presents each of my girls got, I realized that not in my entire life did I ever get that many presents for Christmas! At the "Annual Tan Family Christmas Party," during the distribution of presents, we needed 4 garbage bags to put all of the girls' presents into! All the kids there had such huge smiles on their faces- so happy to get all those gifts and so excited to open them. But the most excited out of all them was my beautiful, Kyla. She wanted to go home ASAP to open up her presents and to see if Santa had already dropped by to bring what she had asked for. So we left the party as soon as we could and dropped by at my sister-in-law's place to... yes, GET MORE PRESENTS! -at least they got to open them right there and then. But Kyla still wanted to go home already to open up the rest of her presents. So we did. She had to change into her pj's first to get comfy (actually, I didn't want her dress to be ruined- such a mom!).Anyway, after all the presents were opened, we finally got her to go to bed. Then Brice and I had a conversation about how Christmas is really for kids. Aside from celebrating the birth of Jesus, it's also something that children always look forward to. When you're young, you look forward to getting lots of presents from your family and friends. But once you get older, those presents seem to slowly disappear and you find yourself the one to be giving out presents instead. Mahn! I'm really getting old! It didn't matter that we didn't receive many gifts as long as the kids were happy that's all that matters.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

3 MORE DAYS!

I've had the biggest headaches these past few days. Brice and Kyla have been suffering from bad cough for the past week or so and Kae is teething! It's been very tiring. Last night, Kae had a bit of a temperature and was tossing and turning ALL NIGHT! Kyla woke up screaming and crying around 3/4 am complaining about how much her throat was hurting. It was a challenge getting back to sleep after that knowing that I had to be awake in a couple of hours.

As soon as I woke up- HAD TO wake up- I got everybody else up and ready to leave for Kaelene's 6-month check up. Kae was just sooo cranky the whole ride to the doctor's office and as soon as we went inside the room, she started CRYING! (She never used to- but I guess she's at that stage where she recognizes what being in that room with that lady meant!) And to make things better, she ended up with 3 vaccines- 1 oral and 2 shots (1 on each leg). Brice and I had to hold her down while she was getting the injections. My poor Kae. She screamed and cried like I've never heard her before. I thought I was gonna cry, too! She did not stop crying until we got home.

Now, she's been sound asleep for the last few hours while big sister, Kyla, is just wastching TV. Brice already left for work again and here I am wishing, hoping and praying that everyone will feel better just in time for Christmas... 3 more days...

SMIIIIIILLLLLLEEEEEE :-)

My sister got braces! Am I jealous? Yes... a bit... Maybe if she had it 18 years ago (not that she was born yet), I would be SUPER JEALOUS! As a little kid, seeing people with braces made me want to get my own. It seemed like the cool thing then- pretty much all "cool" kids, or should I say "teenagers" I knew, had them. This was when I decided that I will get them NO MATTER WHAT. I wanted to be one of those cool chicks with multi-coloured braces. I would change the colours whenever I want- from hot pink to blue to yellow to whatever! I heard about all the pain these cool "braces-wearers" had to go through but I didn't care. I will go through whatever I have to go through to have shiny, colourful things on my teeth. But the problem was... MY TEETH WERE FINE! The dentist told me I WILL NOT BE NEEDING braces- not even retainers (which I was willing to settle for- they're still shiny)! "Oh no! What do I do now?!" I thought of ways to make my teeth "not fine" so then my dentist will eventually change his mind and give me the braces anyway. "I GET WHAT I WANT." So I put my oh-so-BRILLIANT plan to work:

EAT LOTS OF CHOCOLATE, CANDIES, CAKES- ALL THE SWEET STUFF that's supposedly not good for you, especially your TEETH... THEN... DO NOT BRUSH YOUR TEETH AFTERWARDS! HE-HE-HE...

I swear! I was sooo smart! This plan was surely gonna make my TEETH "NOT" FINE anymore. Then, I'll get what I want- BRACES! buwahahaha...

So... that happened when I was about 6 or so. I'm 24 now and I NEVER got braces (not even retainers)- never NEEDED them, so the dentist tells me! But guess what I got instead: CAVITIES galore and ROOT CANALS!

hmmm... can you say, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR?

**I now brush my teeth as much as I can.
**I think... no, I KNOW... my dentist is wondering how I could have done such damage to my teeth? (sigh!) If only he knew!

And to my sister, Issa... I AM STILL SO JEALOUS that you have those PINK and SILVER stuff on your teeth! Whenever you feel like complaining on how uncomfortable or painful it is, just think of me. Tell yourself you have them on for me since YOU WERE BLESSED with the NOT-SO-FINE TEETH I'VE ALWAYS WANTED!!! ENJOY THEM! :-D