Dental Dilemmas

Today was our morning at the Dentist. We were all up, dressed, groomed and out the door by 8 a.m. I was even armed with my camera. ::snort:: I didn’t get Josiah’s photo before he was done and on his way to classes and work.

We really like this dentist. He’s older. He’s “common sense”. He LOVES children and I’ve never seen an office that is as patient and gentle with children.

They even keep toys in the hygienist’s room so that kids can watch and play while others are being worked on.

Zander has some sensory issues. His differences really manifest at the dentist. I have SO appreciated how well Miss Gina works with him. We have NEVER been able to get him into the dentist chair. After three tries, she had him in the chair and we cheered.

Today, he walked in (4th visit) and said he wanted to be first. He hopped right up there.
He’s been saying he has a “sharp tooth”. He often talks about dinosaurs (ok – 90% of the time) and I assumed he was pretending he was a t-rex. He let Miss Gina LOOK at his teeth today
– and we discovered that he has a tooth that is so bad that ½ of it has fallen away. They have no idea why he’s not been complaining of pain. The thing is NOW we have to figure out what to do. They can’t do it at their office. They’ve suggested two options. One the dentist doesn’t like because he thinks the pediatric dentist will traumatize him with the “get em in and get em out – time is money” attitude of the office. The other will lead to future orthodontic work. Ugh – either option may well set us way back again at getting him to open his mouth at the dentist.

Random Shots












After this shot - I warned a certain 13 year old that *I* had hiney shots of him as a baby and if he didn't want to see them on the blog tonight - he'd best put the camera UP.

When the dentist came in he said he wouldn’t show his tooth to him, “Only to Miss Gina”. We usually go out to Dairy Queen to celebrate our clean teeth. I told him that we’d let him choose where we went if he’d let the dentist look. He did.

We went to “the Game” – Mr. Gattis.



"Jare - come ride my car"

This girl loves horses and this is "my horse"


Let's see...then we did the HoF run. I cooked dinner. I got a work out in - I've been mixing that up a bit more in an effort to see results.

Recapturing the Memories

Mike and Josiah are still at work and Jared is at CAP. Jamin is resting. The young boys are playing play station, Arielle is reading and Stacia is doing the bumper bounce thing off each of us. I think I’ll update the blog and maybe even have time to read some blogs and email tonight….

Saturday was Ladies Day Out for the Chapel. We went to a local historical establishment. At one time it was a “house of ill repute”. Now it is a really OLD building, full of antique decorations, with pretty good food.

I got the idea while we were window shopping after lunch that I should make a “visual shopping list” for my young men. I took a picture of the sign of the stores…and then the items IN the stores that I liked….things like the earlier chocolate signs and these – to show just a few. LOL

Sunday was a full day. We had Sunday School, 3 services, a fellowship and a potluck. No wonder I can’t keep the weight off. ::snort:: I had wanted to talk with the girls this weekend but between the migraine and the schedule…it didn’t happen.

Monday and Tuesday I was still dealing with pretty bad headaches. We did get some school done. Tuesday night Bible Study was fun. We had 4 new women show up.

Yesterday and today I’ve been functional. We got school done.

The kids painted fall crafts.

Arielle and Nolan helped put together our blessing mix.

Zander took a look and asked if he could play outside when he saw it was food he doesn’t eat. Thank GOD – I was worried about this.

Stacia “helped”.

As soon as I can get the color printer to work, we’ll print out the tags and be able to pass these out.

I had to cancel produce co-op for this week due to low numbers. I decided to drive to the base and drop off boxes and check to see what the commissary would charge me for a case of apples. It turns out they have just started carrying organic produce. The prices aren’t bad at all. I got a case of apples for $36. We can make it to next Friday. LOL

Arielle and I began buying things to fill our Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.

Jared had HoF today. They have a new rule that is strictly enforceable: “No children within 3 feet of the fence”. This should help the dog and his owner when he gets to come back home.

When I dropped Jared off, I dropped by Wholesome Foods. I was so hoping they’d have a few of the things we are out of – they didn’t. What they did have was incredibly more money than we were paying with the truck delivery. Ugh. I’m still checking into other options.