{ground breaking}

The highlight of the week was the fact that they broke ground on our new house. The permits were finally approved by the city, Duke Energy got over to disconnect the gas from the old house 2 whole days before their deadline, the excavator showed up, and the old house came down a day earlier than planned ... and the girls napped through the whole thing.  They had been so excited to watch the old house "get knocked over."  I had asked our builder to let us know when it was going to take place and he said Thursday.  On Wednesday afternoon at 2:30pm I got an email and voicemail from our builder, "He started knocking it down.  Can you get here quick?"  I let Sara know, but by the time she took the girls pver after their nap he was already done.  They were still excited, but it was a bit anti-climactic for them.  When I got home from work they told me, "Mom, they knocked down the old house, but they didn't build our new house."  Wouldn't it be nice if it could go up as quickly as it came down?  Even though the tear down was a bit ant-climactic, the girls love going to the building site and insist on doing it at least once a day.  The site has become the local playground for the boys on the street and we have already met many nice neighbors.On Saturday night the builder (who lives on the street) had a bonfire on the lot - I have a feeling we are really going to like our new street and neighbors.  GiGi sent the girls a book called "Building a House" which we have read no less than 100 times already.  It is so cute to see how interested and excited the girls are about the buidling process.  Let's hope they maintain this excitement for the next 8 months.  Tobi has been staying with a friend/coworker the past few weeks and when he came home this weekend the girls were insistent about taking him to the lot because "Tobi hasn't seen our new house yet!"

In other ground breaking news from this past week, the girls had their first dentist appointment last Wednesday.  They were both pretty excited about it in the days leading up to the appointment because we had been talking about it and Sara checked out some books from the library about going to the dentist.  However, the morning of Kenzie started to get nervous as she does in any new situation and said she didn't want to go.  So Lexi volunteered to go first.  She was very brave and confident, until she actually laid flat on the exam table and the dentist put her hands in her mouth - then she lost it and said she wanted to go home NOW!  I managed to calm her down and she finished the exam and even let them take an x-ray of her front tooth without any issues.  Kenzie followed and was very brave - no tears.  No cavities and Lexi's tooth which has turned gray still has the nerve intact so the dentist is not concerned.  It probably got "bruised" this summer when she tripped and fell in our neighbors driveway and hit her mouth.  She said the bruise may actually fade and the tooth could turn white again, or it may stay discolored.  Happy that at least it doesn't pose any bigger problems.