Slacker

I've been awful about writing this month! My boss said that she noticed that I spent July boycotting work and I suppose the same is true for blogging. All for a good cause.... I realized that I was exhausted and burned out, and I feel wonderful after spending the month hanging out with the kids & Rich, sleeping, reading trashy mysteries, and exercising. I'm FINALLY motivated to start prepping for the year and reading work materials sounds like fun now.

Today Rich is in Cincinnati with 3 little boys at King's Island, an amusement park and water park. They had a wonderful time and the boys were great. One funny thing he told me is that he realized that one little boy behavior is not unique to Luke: They either don't have to go at all, or they are desperate and doing the potty cha-cha. That was a challenge in a giant parking lot, so he taught someone else's child to pee between cars. Both of my boys have known that trick for years.

Not sure that I've written this before - sometimes when Aaron is talking I'll respond to him and he'll tell me, "No Mommy! I talking with myself!!"

Teeth, finally!

Luke has been desperately wiggling his bottom two front teeth for months, but they refused to come out. When I took a good look in his mouth a couple of weeks ago I was alarmed because his adult teeth were coming in about a quarter inch behind his baby teeth.

Fortunately a friend at church, Margaret, teaches at the dental school and she took a peek in his mouth while he was climbing a tree after church. She said that the position of the adult teeth is good because the bottom baby teeth were in front of his top teeth, so the adult teeth are in much better alignment (maybe less time in braces if we're lucky?). However....she also said that one of the jobs of the adult teeth is to push out the baby teeth, and that wasn't going to happen for Luke. She recommended a bit of "help" from his pediatric dentist, Heidi Yang.

Today was the big day. We didn't tell Luke about the appointment so he wouldn't be scared. I requested laughing gas, Dr. Heidi numbed his mouth, then pushed and tugged. Several minutes after his teeth were safely packaged, I complimented him on his big boy smile and he said, "I didn't know she pulled my teeth!?" A perfect dentist experience!

Dr. Heidi told him that if the dentist pulls your teeth, the tooth fairy has to pay double. And that you have to have ice cream for dinner. And that there's a decent chance that she'll have to help the next two bottom teeth. Luke said that he's totally happy to go back for another tooth tug as long as he gets laughing gas.