Jeffey's Exciting Day

This morning Jeff was the hero because he found where Fish Blob has been laying her eggs! We all suspected she'd start laying soon but we hadn't yet found any eggs from her. She was a pullet (a couple of months old) when we got her and they start laying at around 6 months old. Well Jeff found the jackpot, five of hers (hers are white) and three of either Rainbow or Dotty (I can't tell theirs apart since they are both brown). It's fun to send the kids out to find eggs because those sneaky chickens change their nests around all the time, we never know where they'll be!
And Jeffey's big day didn't end there, no sir! He's been working on losing a tooth for months now and today it finally happened (Leah's lost 6). He lost his first tooth after an agonizing struggle; "Can I try to pull your tooth, Jeff? It looks really loose." "No, Mom, I'll do it."
It isn't fun to look at, and that's because it is twisted all the way around. Yes, it is. The thing was hanging by a thread and he wouldn't let me near it. I just avoided looking at him and it didn't bother me (okay, it still bothered me). So we were eating dinner and I told him that he could say the prayer and ask for his tooth to fall out during the meal so that he could eat his food easier. What do you know but he took a bite of his tostada and wondered why there were seeds in it. The blasted thing had finally leaped off his gums and tried to make a break for it. But Jeffey didn't swallow it and it is safely in the tooth fairy pillow this very minute, unless she's been here already. . .
On a somewhat related note, 8 year old boys are kind of goofy and weird (can you tell from the pictures?). When I met Justin (Ryan's brother) he was that age and now he is 18 and much less obnoxious. I'm glad that my fears about not being able to love having an 8 year old son were baseless, he is a great kid (it's 7 year old girls we had an issue with tonight) *grimace*