Catch-Up Post Part 2 - On to the Fall

Then, the next thing you know, the girls started back to school! My little one too! I cried so hard the day I dropped my Sydney off at preschool. Teacher Kathy hugged me and told me I'll be fine and so will Sydney. She was right. Now I LOVE my 4 hours of freedom every morning! It's BLISS!
We didn't have anything close to the fires in LA, but there was a day we had some big fire and the sun looked like this at 8AM.
In September, my parents came down to visit for 2 weeks. They're thinking about moving down from Seattle next year when my mom can retire. If her health holds up, she might work another year, so we'll wait and see if we have automatically free babysitting by this time next year.In mid October, Lauryn's tooth started wriggling. You can see the adult tooth already growing in behind the loose tooth. Very shark-ish. This past Sunday, 11/12, after eating a really hard ham and cheese sandwich from Baguette at Stanford, her tooth came out (well, with a little tug from her dad). And she promptly placed it under her pillow and the tooth fairy dutifully obliged that night with a nice $5 bill - cuz (s)he probably didn't have anything smaller. How many more teeth do kids have to lose?? I'm going to be out a lot of cash this year.