goodbye baby tooth, hello tooth fairy!

Makenzie is officially growing up....

she lost her 1st baby tooth a few days before Christmas!!  

She has been waiting for her teeth to get wiggly since last year...

every now and then she would wiggle her tooth and tell me it's getting loose...

but when I would try it seemed like it wasn't going anywhere anytime soon!  

A couple weeks ago I looked in her mouth and noticed her adult tooth was growing in behind her baby tooth.  And it seems like only a couple days after the tooth was ready to come out!

I took my camera out to take a picture of her tooth just barely holding on...

Right after I snapped this picture she wiggled her tooth and out it went!  

She was in shock at first and I actually thought she was going to cry! 

I love her little toothless grin!! 

She was soooo excited! 

And so was I!
It's a big deal loosing your first tooth!! :)

Getting her tooth ready for the tooth fairy....

she asked the tooth fairy if she could keep this tooth since it was her first one! 

Waking up to find $1! 

She was so excited!! 

Of course little sister had to be part of the fun too! :)

In fact, she often shows us her "loose" teeth too! 

A night out in Brooklyn

A couple weekends before Christmas Jeff & I were able to meet up with 

his friends for a dinner in Brooklyn. 

The dinner was great...such good food!  

It was a family style restaurant and they kept bringing plate after plate of delicious food to the table!

We were on cloud 9!

The restaurant was right under the Williamsburg Bridge....despite the crappy weather the view was pretty!

 While we were out the girls had a great time with their cousin Drake at Jeff's family's house in NJ!

 This picture seriously makes me laugh. 

Really?!?  

Hometown Holiday Weekend!

I love hometown holiday weekend.

I think I say this every year.  

Last year I had to work but this year I was able to enjoy all the festivities! :)

We started out at the tree lighting on Friday night.  

We were very happy Abbie got to spend the night with us to enjoy some Christmas fun!

Then we got up Saturday morning to have breakfast with Santa!

The girls, especially Jo Jo were so excited to see him!

I seriously can not look at the picture without laughing.

Oh Josie.  

Josie. Again.

After some breakfast, candy canes and pictures with Santa we headed over to the library for Christmas crafts.  The girls had a great time!  

It was warm and rainy, not at all Christmasy but we all had a great time.  

It was a great kick start to the Christmas season!

**Snow day **

Today we had our first snow day of the season!

Kenzie was really hoping for no school so I was very excited to tell her this morning when she woke up! And I was very excited that Josie slept in to 6:45 today...she's usually up by 6:15!  And I was even happier when she laid in bed with me after she woke up and watched a movie!  

It was a good start to my day!  

It was a little too cold and windy to venture outside but we had fun indoors!

Here is how the Soto girls spent their snow day...

Sleepy girls in their pjs...

We decorated our windows with Christmas stick on's...

(I'm not too sure why she is posing like this! :) 

Kenzie asked me to take a picture of her mask so we can send it to NeeNee...

And then of course Josie wanted to be in the picture too....

and she had to be like sissy...

this seriously makes me laugh out loud when I see this!

We painted some nails...

Kenzie even painted my nails too! :)

We colored from a new coloring book....

And we practiced our spelling words in shaving cream...

Here's to hoping for more snow days! :)

Sisters

A few weeks ago Kenzie & Josie had a little dress up party.  

They fight a lot so when they actually get along and play together it's great! :)  

Makenzie dressed up Josie on her own and they would come out of her room and model for me! 

It was so cute!

Josie hugged her on her own. :)

One time they were in Kenzie's room for quite some time while I was making dinner.

They walk out...

and I instantly busted out laughing!

Kenzie had gone through her closet and found a 3-6 month dress that was Josie's and somehow squeezed Josie in to it!!

Josie was as happy as a calm and didn't even realize that the dress was several sizes too small! :)

I have no idea how Kennie got that dress on her because I had a heck of a time getting it off her!

I just love these two together.

Yes, they fight a lot....

but they do truly love each other as well!

And I just love that!

Tree!

Although I've been listening to Christmas music since November 1 now it's officially Christmas season! :)  On Saturday we put up our tree.  At first I was going to wait for Josie's nap but then I felt bad excluding her so I let her help!  And I'm so glad I did....she loved it! :)

Daddy was at work when we started so we waited to put the angel on top until he got home...

And of course Jo wanted to do the same thing as sissy....

Father & Daughter Dance

A couple weeks ago Kenzie and Daddy went on a very special date!

They went to Kenzie's first dance! :)

They had soo much fun and I heard about it alllll weekend!

Since I didn't go I asked a lot of questions about it and Jeff said just picture a dance floor with tons of little girls running around, dancing, & having fun and then a group of dads standing around watching them.  

So sweet! 

I took like 20 pictures of Kenzie & Jeff together before they left and wouldn't you know...

Jeff's eyes are closed in every.single.picture. 

Ugh!  The kids are easier to photograph then Jeff! :)