Dead Tooth

Jayden had a head on collision with a neighbor boy 2 days ago.  The other boy had a little bump on his head and that was all.  Jayden came home crying and when he finally let me look in his mouth, 3 of his front teeth were a little bloody up around the gums, but nothing gushing or anything, and one of his teeth looked like it already had a bit of a bruise on the gum right above it.  All 3 of these teeth were already a little wiggly anyway, but now they were really loose.  I had Jayden rinse his mouth out and gave him some tylenol and reassured him that his teeth weren't going to fall out in his sleep and that if they weren't ready to come out, they would tighten back up a bit.
Then this morning he comes out of his bedroom, smiles at me while saying Good Morning, and I cringed and said, 'Oh my gosh!'  One of his teeth was totally turning black.  Nasty!

My initial feeling was that it was no big deal.  His tooth was obviously just dying from the collision, and that it would fall out maybe a tad early (it is REALLY wiggly now), and his permanent tooth would eventually fill in the hole.  Then I googled it.  Man!, sometimes google is such a horrible idea.  I got all these stories and pictures about abscesses and infections and the baby tooth injuring his permanent tooth, enough to totally make me doubt myself.  So, I called our dentist, told them what happened, and what his tooth looked like now, and they said it was probably best we bring him in.  Turns out, my initial idea about the whole thing is probably pretty accurate.  Our dentist said because the tooth wasn't still jammed up inside his gum, that his permanent tooth will most likely be just fine.  It's just gonna be ugly for awhile before it eventually falls out.  And Royal is probably not going to be too happy about having to pay for a kind of unnecessary dentist visit, but I'm going to tell him to bill Google.  :)

Lego Creations

You can tell Jayden is ready for summer because he's building swimming pools out of legos!  :)
The swimming pool is located right next to the Ewok tree fort.

It has a diving board, water squirters, and a life guard!  Although, I'm not sure if that Ewok is swimming or drowning....

Spring Break Finale!

Well, the beginning of the week may have started out pouring down rain, but the last few days were sunny and beautiful!  Yesterday, Jayden demanded to know why the neighborhood pool wasn't open yet, it's obviously hot enough!  So, he and the neighborhood kids played with water balloons, water shooters, and he finally broke Royal and I down and we blew up the dragon pool.

Jayden is back in school today, and our schedule is getting back to normal.  (Only 40 days of school left though until Summer Vacation!!!)  And the days of putting sunscreen on before we put on our clothes for the day are starting and if we are hitting 80 degrees in March this year, we could be in for another brutal summer!  If it's going to be 90+ days over 100 again, and I am going to be so glad to be in Washington!!!  :)

Spring Break Day 4

Craft Day!  Still raining outside, and I am so sick of entertaining "bored" kids and watching movies and playing Wii games, so the kids and I made a trip to Hobby Lobby to stock up on some more craft supplies.

First, we made some melty bead projects!

Then we moved on to a far messier project.  Slime.  And I always tend to go a bit overboard on the food coloring part of it, so everybody's hands were dyed either pink or purple for the rest of the day.   :)

Then during Willow's rest time, Jayden and I did a bead project.  Both of the kids are talking about going to Washington non-stop.  Jayden wants to play with Brendan and Wyatt and Easton.  Willow wants to see baby Annabel and "hold her in my hands"  and "feed her my water".  They are constantly asking me when we are going, how many days, is it time yet?, can we leave tomorrow?  So, Jayden and I made a countdown.   I couldn't imagine having to cut out like 100 rings to put together in a chain ring, so we used beads!  We have 96 days until we blast off for Washington.  96!  I couldn't believe it was under 100!  I made a countdown chain for Willow too, so that we don't have to argue about whose turn it is to take a bead off, they both get too!

Spring Break Day 3

We went to the zoo today!  I had told Jayden that we could go to the zoo a whole bunch of times while he was out of school, but I had no idea it was going to be raining ALL week!  Today, the kids couldn't wait one day more, so we put on rain boots, coats, hats, and brought umbrellas and went to the zoo!
It really wasn't so bad.  We got sprinkled on a tiny bit, but that was about it, and there was hardly anybody there!

And we saw the red panda's face, you know, Master Shifu, instead of just his curled up body.  And for the first time EVER, we saw the river otters.  Out of all the years of us going to the zoo, we have never seen the otters, mostly because we don't go into the North America section of the zoo very often, but the kids were super excited and would of stayed for a long time.  Unfortunately, we were trying to stay ahead of this obnoxious group of kids who were there and they were coming up on the otter exhibit, so we moved on.

(note in the picture Willow has lost her hat and her coat. She swore to me she was just WAY too hot and itchy, too bad her hands and ears were more like icicles. But if she says she's hot, who am I to argue????)

Spring Break Day 1

It's the first day of spring break and our plan was to be outside doing things ALL day, but then the weather changed our minds.  It's a thunder-stormy, wet, rainy, Monday.  So, what else is there to do, but build a fort in the basement????

Because, having your own little tent in the basement just isn't enough....it needs to be bigger, and all connected, and have secret entrances that you can only enter with a password!

Let's hope the weather clears up this week, because we are so due for a trip to the zoo!!!!  :)

March Madness 2012

Well, it is once again that time of year.  The time of year I take a ridiculous picture of myself holding a piece of paper.  But, eh, traditions are traditions! 2008 2009 2010 2011  (2008 didn't really have one, but Jayden's cute!)

So, this year!  Let's see!  I think I have some pretty good picks, Royal disagrees, but whatever!  I've only won once out of the last 5 years, so chances are, I will lose again, but you never know!  Some of my favorite teams didn't even make it in the tourny this year, so that was a bummer right off the bat - like University of Washington (I thought Royal might cry over this one), Butler (because I think my life might be better if I had one), Wake Forest (the forest that never sleeps!). 

And please do remember, I haven't watched one iota of basketball leading up to the tournament, these picks are purely based off of Rachel's Brilliant Bracketology Strategy!  It might be one you want to adopt for next year.  :)

Ok, this year, Syracuse, one of my favorite teams because they are orange and white and that is like a creamsicle and I LOVE creamsicles, are seeded #1 in the East.  However, I have them losing in the 2nd round, sad I know, but Royal did give me a tip and said their starting star something-or-other player is banned from playing because he didn't go to class (what the????).  I just can't support stupidity. :)  AND Royal could totally be pulling my leg and trying to throw me off, but I'm choosing to believe him and am kicking Syracuse to the curb early on.  The good news is, for all my K-State friends, that Syracuse is getting beat by K-State and they are making it to the Elite-8, where sadly they will be trounced by Florida State, only because Willow drinks A LOT of orange juice these days and oranges come from Florida.

In the South bracket, not too much is happening.  My big upset team is Colorado.  Royal told me I was pretty ridiculous because Colorado is like almost last in their league, but I just went skiing there and I really loved it, so I'm letting Colorado beat UNLV (because let's face it, Las Vegas is the city of sin, and as a Christian I just can't support that.  kidding!  kidding! ha ha ha!  please laugh with me and don't leave me any nasty comments).  And then I have Notre Dame paired up against Duke and I REALLY considered letting Notre Dame win because I love the movie Rudy, but my favorite, very thin now, very tattered and ratty, Duke sweatshirt won out.  I decided I'd rather wear my sweatshirt than watch Rudy.  Duke then goes on to beat Colorado (sad, I know, but I can wear my sweatshirt whenever I want and I can't go skiing whenever I want) and meet up with Kentucky, which Kentucky will then give them a thorough beating.  You see, when I was really sick a few weeks ago, laying in bed I somehow started watching Animal Planet's show called Jockey's.  It was all about horse racing, and I got totally addicted and watched all of them, and well there's the whole Kentucky Derby thing.  Sooooooo, Kentucky is my pick for the South.  :)

In the West, I have picked my 12-5 upset of Long Beach State over New Mexico, because there is a Long Beach in Washington and I love it there.  I have Marquette winning the West bracket pretty much because Marquette reminded me of how I always mispronounce the word croquet, you know the lawn game, and it reminded me of how much fun we had as kids playing it and that maybe I'll get a set to play with my kids this summer, but then I'm not sure putting wooden mallets and really hard balls in the hands of my kids is a good idea yet....

Moving on!  In the Midwest bracket.  I had a tough decision with Saint Mary's and Purdue.  I even texted my friend Jac, who helped me years ago fill out a bracket, and even though she thought I was slightly crazy for asking her, she said to pick Saint Mary's because of the whole Mary-Jesus connection. :)  AND I almost did.  But in the end food won out.  The word Purdue made me think of fondue, and I really love fondue.  Royal also informed me that Purdue's mascot is the Gale.  Like Gale force winds.  And living in Kansas, I pretty much experience those all the time.  I can't imagine trying to eat fondue in gale force winds, but never the less, I picked Purdue.  But they are quickly getting beat by Kansas, who then makes it to the Elite-8, where they are going to get beat by North Carolina.  North Carolina is one of my favorite's this year, because my friends Amy and Forrest, just had a baby and they named her Caroline.

So, my final 4. Kentucky vs. Marquette and Florida State vs. North Carolina.  Basically Horse racing vs. Croquet and Orange Juice vs. A sweet 2 week old little baby girl.  In match up #1, Kentucky wins because you can kind of play croquet while riding a horse, you know, Polo.  :)  And then in match up #2, North Carolina wins, because who in the world would pick drinking a glass of orange juice over holding sweet little Caroline????

In the final, it's Kentucky vs. North Carolina.  And obviously, I had to pick North Carolina to win it all.   Because if Amy and Forrest would let me, I could hold little Caroline while riding a horse, and THAT would be awesome!  :)