Dental Tales

After five+ years without being seen by a dental professional, I finally made it in for an appointment last Thursday. Since my teeth had been a bit sensitive for awhile and I had heard some crazy rumor that the rule of thumb is you lose one tooth for every child, I figured this visit was not going to go well. Since for the first time in our married life we have dental insurance and the exam, X-rays, and teeth cleaning are covered at 100%, I could actually make it in without being pre-empted by husband’s teeth falling out of his head or children needing to be seen. Yay!

Guess what? No cavities! Moowahahahahahaha! I feel like I’m eight and got a good report from the dentist. Five years and no cavities! Some of my teeth were rubbing together and chipping off the enamel, which was why they were a bit tender but there was no decay at all and the enamel got fixed yesterday.

Tomorrow I’m taking all four of the girls. The younger two have never even been to the dentist. I have this feeling that their reports are not going to go as well as mine… Probably good that they’re going in though.

In other news, the kids are off school this week (remember we are now on a year round school schedule so their off weeks are all wacky) so Georgie is spending the week at Bunya’s house (Bunya=George’s Mom) for his birthday. Our house has been extremely quiet. The girls play trains and computer and dolls and other quiet things. It’s weird. It’s very nice, but very weird. I’m starting to miss Mr. Rambunctious.

On the other hand, Trinity and I went out with Grandma (my Mom) last week and today Anika and I went out with her. Both of the girls seemed to really enjoy having a little bit of special time with just Mommy and Grandma (well, and Henry but they like that too). We went to Hanna Andersson and they each got a hat and mittens set that was on clearance for $4 and they bought it with their own money!

I didn’t even realize Trinity had brought her money with her until she came up and said, I have this much money and I’m buying this and this. Ummm, ok. Knock yourself out! She seemed pretty proud of herself. So was I.

Georgie sounds like he’s having a ball. He’s been going swimming with Babunya (Hubby’s Grandmother) and to the Dollar Store with Bunya. And Bunya, being the genious that she is, has apparently found that a good way to keep him busy is to hire him for $1.50 an hour. I don’t know what he’s doing, but he’s a diligent worker and loves having a mission so I’m sure she’s getting her money’s worth. He told me he’s decided he wants to always keep $10 in reserve in case a new Bionicle comes out so he’ll have money to buy it right away if he wants it. Good plan!

Guess that’s it for around here. Starting to think about Christmas. Yikes!

Rachel