Life with Ben and Ella

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Another milestone passed...

What's missing in this picture??

Ben says, "One tooth gone, 19 to go!"

The tooth has been really loose the last couple of days. Ben actually said yesterday that he thought the tooth would come out today!

So it was after supper - I was in the kitchen, cleaning up a bit, and Ben came to me and asked if he could be done. I looked at him and said, "Ben, your tooth! It's gone!" I immediately thought that he had swallowed it, eating his supper, but nope, there it was, on his plate. And he didn't even notice!

He's excited for the tooth fairy to come tonight - he said, "Maybe she'll leave me a quarter! Or a washer!"

Monday, November 22, 2010

We have ourselves a comedian!

Saturday night, during supper, we were watching “Cash Cab”. (If you haven’t seen it, it’s a gameshow where a cabbie asks trivia questions for money – and if you make it to your destination without getting 3 wrong, you can opt to double your money by correctly answering a bonus question; if you get it wrong, you lose it all.)

First there was a group of 4 guys that did very well and ended up getting their (very easy) bonus question correct to double up to over $800. Then a second group of guys get to the bonus question, and decided not to risk their winnings. But they got to hear the question and guess anyway (better tv, right?). So it was very easy as well, and I remarked to Gord that the bonus questions seemed a lot easier than before. But I couldn’t remember the previous group’s question/answer, and neither could Gord (the memory is the first thing to go!). So Ben piped up with the answer – “Lionfish. It was Lionfish.” (They showed a videoclip with some voice-over facts and asked what this fish was more commonly called.) We thanked him and said that he had a good memory, and he said, “Do I get cash?” Does he know how the game works or what?!?! LOL We laughed pretty hard at our witty son!