Kid Bits

Fisher Barrett (8) got to play his electric guitar in front of a huge audience at his school’s winter show! He just learned how to play guitar at the beginning of the school year and this was so exciting!

News the way kids like to tell it... all good, mostly true and, of course, totally earth shattering.

by CHRISTIA PALIZZI

Carter, Coen + Charlie holding Lizzie

The Schnaeder kids, Carter, Coen and Charlie welcomed a new member into their pack this year. Her name is Queen Elizabeth or Lizzie and she is a miniature goldendoodle. She is so cute and fluffy. She loves to take long walks, play tug of war and pretend to be ferocious. She’s tiny and cute and so sweet. Charlie is the most obsessed with her.

Brothers Camp & Myers made art throughout quarantine. Then one day, they decided to sell it and the money that they made they gave to Alaqua. They donated over $163! Such an awesome way to donate to Alaqua!

The Palizzi crew welcomed a new furry friend into their pack. After volunteering at Alaqua one time, Gabriel fell in love with a tiny orange kitten named, at the time, Flint. Once they adopted him, and due to his easy purring tendencies, his name was quickly changed to Purrcy Harris. He’s fitting in fine with the other pack members. Gabriel also raised $283.86 for Alaqua by working an art stand in front of Gigi’s one Saturday and a citrus sale the next day. He spent over 16 hours working hard.

Gabriel raises money for Alaqua

Edie Burch (3) smashed her finger in the door. Her brother Huckleberry had a loose tooth so lots of tooth fairy conversations had been happening. Her mom had mentioned that she might lose her fingernail and Edie got so excited because she thought the “fingernail fairy” would come and give her money for her lost nail. She was disappointed to realize that was not the truth.

Ryan + Andrew donate to Alaqua

Ryan (9) from Colorado and Andrew (11) from Tallahassee had a special surprise waiting for them on the Gigi’s train! Their parents had arranged for each of them to have an envelope with their names on it and a third envelope with a choice to either spend the money or donate it to Alaqua Animal Refuge. They both agreed to donate the money to Alaqua.

And now onto the lost teeth...

Alice Czepyha is six years old and she just lost two teeth. She twisted them out herself because she doesn’t like loose teeth. She tried to bite an apple to make it looser and it worked. The tooth fairy brought some spending money which she spent at Gigi’s! Huckleberry Burch lost his first tooth. He’s five years old and it just fell out. He received an old American treasure from the tooth fairy in the form of an ancient two dollar bill. It was made WAY before his mom was born in 2009. (Note, his mother was definitely born before 2009).

Katherine’s tooth was so loose at the beach she could put her tongue behind it and make it stick out. So her mom finally pulled it! The tooth fairy definitely paid them a visit!

Katherin

Alice Powell lost her two canine teeth on the bottom. One she was flossing her teeth and she forgot that it was loose and it just fell out. The other she was eating oatmeal and it just fell right out.

Violet Harless (8) lost her bottom tooth. Her teacher pulled it out and got her booth back in a box at school. The tooth fairy came but she was worried that her elf on the shelf would take it instead.

Coen Schnaeder recently got his braces off! He smiles so much now! He also lost a tooth! The tooth fairy came to visit.

Huckleberry

Matilda MacKinney lost a tooth and is about to lose another. She is almost done losing teeth already!

Emilia Palizzi has a shark tooth! Well, really her adult tooth has almost grown completely in and her baby tooth is barely wiggly! Two different dentists have encouraged her to try to wiggle it out but she’s afraid. Hopefully she wiggles it out soon. In other tooth news, her front teeth finally came in! Now what will she ask for Christmas?

Charlie Schnaeder lost a tooth too! She wiggled it out and the tooth fairy came and left her some money!

Natalie Brown lost a tooth last week! She pulled it out by herself and came running downstairs! She was so proud of herself for doing it on her own! The tooth fairy came to visit and her mama says she looks like a little jack o’lantern.

Makenna Donaldson has lost so many teeth recently. She’s basically got the tooth fairy stopping very regularly! Her grown up teeth are keeping up though and she’s looking so big!