Fairfax Gallants

This is new to me. Not reading blogs, but having a family one. I typically send out a monthly email with the ongoings in the Gallant family house, but now I'll jot it here. I can add photos which I'm very excited about to share with everyone. Scott wrote the first entry so there will be some from both of us. Enjoy!

Chloe lost her first tooth on Friday January 19th! She has been asking for over a month when she'd loose a tooth. I told her Isaac lost his first at 5 1/2yrs old so she might be the same. Isaac gets a loose tooth and it takes months to come out. Chloe on the other hand had a loose tooth and within two weeks it was out! She had her finger in her mouth for two days straight moving it and at dinner it came out! We were all in a bit of shock it happened so fast, but that's the way Chloe rolls.

January 21st

We had our first snow! Chloe had her friend Katie's birthday party to go to and on the way there nobody drove more than 35mph (in a 55mph zone) and at least a dozen cars were off the road. Let me remind you that the snow wasn't covering everything yet and it wasn't falling hard. This is Northern VA and that's what goes on here. I have to mention the birthday party...10 girls and 1 boy ...during the cake Lea (the birthday girls mom) says after cake we are going to play 'spin the bottle' silence except for the 1 boy who throws his hands in the air and yells out YEAH. Now I must add that playing 'spin the bottle' was for who's gift the birthday girl would open first not going into the closet...after all they are only 5yrs old!

OK back to the snow...getting home was slow, but once we got here we started the process of putting on snow clothes (15 minutes later) we were all outside. Just enough snow to cover the small hill in our backyard to sled and create snow angels. Scott snowboarded on top of the sled twice down the hill...once landing with a thud and putting a large divot with his knee in the ground and the second time successfully making it all the way through the yard. Chloe was insistent on trying to be like dad... now it was time for dad to give the 'talk' of how when he was a kid he skateboarded down this huge hill and he knew how to do these things ...he's a professional after all. Chloe at the last second jumped down on her belly and went down the hill...smart choice.