Hello, blog. Nice to meet you...remember me?

Could I be a worse mom? My last post was December 4th...no Christmas, no New Year's, no pictures of Emerson's 7th birthday?! My oh my, a bad (and busy) mom indeed. Not that it differs from everyone else, but life has been crazy and chaotic, to say it mildly...But I'm back...hopefully. Now that it's almost April and nothing much is happening for awhile. :-) Here are some photos of life since early December...

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Emerson finally lost a tooth!!

The tooth fairy is coming to our house tonight!!

Happy (Belated) Birthday to my baby!

On a very snowy Monday...November 29, 2004...at around one o'clock in the afternoon, Drew and I were blessed with a beautiful Emerson look-alike. She came into the world without a problem, easy for both mom and baby. Little did I know that that little peanut would turn into this amazing, incredible, hysterical, resiliant little beauty. She went without a name until that evening, and though she looked exactly like her sister, she very quickly showed us that even though she may follow in her footsteps, she will do it to the beat of her own drum.

Happy 5th Birthday, Sutton Button. You have blessed and enriched our lives beyond measure.

Hasta la Vista, Tooth #2 (or #4...depending on how you look at it...)

Believe it or not, Sutton Button lost another tooth tonight. Nuts, isn't it?! She's just so stinking cute!!

Above: A beautiful self portrait she took of herself. :-) Only way to get the best view of those missing bottom teeth!

Tooth be gone (but not from who you think)!!!

So...we have successfully (finally!) lost a tooth here in the Damiano house. The first tooth, that is, that wasn't extracted due to trauma. :-) BUT, believe it or not, it wasn't our eldest who lost a tooth, it was our youngest...the one who really can't afford to be losing teeth right now. And Emerson...what a trooper she is! She would DIE to lose a tooth right now. Heck, she would love to even have one loose! But at the ripe ol' age of 6 1/2, no such luck. She sat and watched her little sister have her moment tonight and cheered her on like crazy, cheering and clapping and hugging her. It was awesome!

Our sweet little Sutton Button has had two loose teeth for about the last month, and finally tonight it was hangin' on by a thread, so Daddy pulled it. Yay, Sissy!! Now we are awaiting a visit from the tooth fairy this evening. Hope he went to the bank!

All is well...but man...SCARY!

As some of you already know, Sunday night was a really crappy ending to a great weekend. I spent a fantastic couple of days in the bay area with Kelly. The bad ending began at SFO when I almost missed my flight because the security lines were longer than I have ever seen them. Little did I know, that was the least of it! Drew and the girls had just picked me up from the airport and we were headed home...WHAM!...it felt like a bomb went off in our car. NAILED from behind. Everyone is fine (thank GOD!), but it was VERY scary not only for the girls, but for Drew and I, too. We had just gotten off the interstate at Hampden and I-25 and were sitting at the stop light, waiting for the light to turn green. We were hit from behind by a "suspected" drunk driver, who witnesses say was going somewhere between 80 and 90 miles an hour on the interstate. There were no tire marks, we heard no screeching from behind, so it was clear she didn't slow down at all. When she hit us, we hit the truck in front of us and she ended up in the middle of the intersection. We were so fortunate quite a few people stopped and help us call 911 and most importantly, saw the whole thing happen and gave written statements to the police. I'm anxious to get the accident report to see if it says what her blood alcohol levels were. She was taken by ambulance, but she walked over (stumbled, actually) herself and got in, so she was obviously fine. Her airbags deployed and her car is totaled...not sure about ours yet, but most likely they'll try to fix it since it's mostly on the rear end...who knows. Anyway, we are so thankful everyone is okay. What happened that night has made us feel quite reflective this week, SO thankful for our good graces and whatever angel upstairs who was looking out for us. Had she hit us any differently, we know the outcome would have been much worse. The girls are doing great...asking a lot of questions, which we are happy to talk through with them. They are amazing little people, and went to school the next day like troopers. Here are some photos...they're hard to see because it was so dark, but we tried for insurance purposes. We'll keep you posted on what's next.

Above: not sure how well you can see it, but above is her (totaled) car on the tow truck.