So we started out the month with Jake's Saber Tooth. He never complained about it, just casually mentioned that his tooth was loose and hurt him enough that he could not chew on that side of his mouth. That weekend, he looked like a chipmunk with a nut in his cheek. On Monday, I took him to the dentist, who promptly removed the tooth. It was a baby tooth and the root was not dissolving as the adult tooth grew in, which created an abscess.
Last weekend we went to visit Corey's mom and brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews in Florida. Corey's brother Zack and his wife Brittany just had a new baby girl, Rylynn. She's the tiniest baby I've ever seen. Just delicious. Jake said he was ready for one of these tiny babies at his house. Landen tried to rub her head like she was a puppy. The boys know that we're going to try to grow our family, but we want to settle in as the four of us for a year or two first. I have four years before shit starts getting difficult.
One of the great things about where my in-laws live in Florida is that it's bigger than Jena, but rural like Jena, and the kids have a huge yard to run around in and a private street that gets little traffic. So cousins Xander and Max and Dad were able to help Landen with the bike-riding he has to master before he can put a foot on the skateboard he got for his birthday. We still have a lot of work to do on this.
Adults control the TV at my in-laws' so the kids have to stay outside and entertain themselves. Even though we limit the amount of both the boys are allowed per day, without television or computer games, Jake was much more relaxed and social the entire time we were there.
The Corrao cousins drove up from Orlando with their Razor Drifter, which is a little go-kart that the kids went crazy for. Little kids and big kids.
We got some great cousin pictures. Here are Jake and Landen with Corey's sister's sons Xander and Max.
And all the grandbabies - Rylynn (held by her mama), Elle, Landen, Zoey (Elle's twin) holding little sister Stella, Xander, Jake and Max.
The twins had a softball game while we were there and the Allbritton family went to the ballpark to cheer them on. Those girls moved too fast for me to get pictures, but here's a sweet brother shot from the bleachers.
School was out for Mardi Gras last week, so when we got back on Tuesday, they boys left to spend the rest of the week and the weekend in Beaumont. Corey had a mandatory soldier conference (we'll just call it that because the name's uninteresting) in New Orleans on my birthday weekend so my choice was to go with him or stay home all alone. On Friday I turned 31 and that night we went to Byblos, a Greek restaurant on Magazine Street with some couple friends of ours and two other soldiers that are like Corey's family. We laughed a lot and drank a lot and I sent a hungover SSG Allbritton over to his conference Saturday morning while I lolled about in bed trying to stop feeling like arse. Saturday night Corey and I went to have the best pizza in New Orleans, at Slice Pizzeria on St. Charles. We got back this afternoon, reunited with the boys and had belated birthday pizza and birthday cake, with candles and singing.
A family post would not be complete without Audie Murphy Daniel Allbritton, shown here snuggling with Daddy in the bed, before he was tucked into his own bed for the evening.
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