Toothless in Texas

Not as cool sounding as 'Sleepless in Seattle' but oh well.

Back on Easter of this year Blaine tripped over his shoes and fell into a rocking chair. (See blog dated 3/23/08) We have watched the progression of one of his front teeth turning from white, to purple, to grey to now nearly black. I could stand it no longer and took him to his new pediatric dentist. (An office staff from his old dentist claimed this was no big deal, just to 'watch it.' Still don't know what that means.)

Sure enough, next Monday he will have to have both front teeth removed due to a serious infection that has developed in the gum line. If we don't take the teeth out, it will surely cause more health problems and damage to his permanent teeth.

My only concern now is jealousy from older brother who has yet to give any offerings to the Tooth Fairy. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

One More Down

Oh yeah, for those of you who aren't local and haven't heard me say already, Brandon did very well this semester. His final semester grades have pulled his GPA into a safe zone. He is feeling foxy and fancy free!

One more semester down, um, like way too many to optimisically say how many left - 7? I think... (counting summers and clinicals...)

Happy Birthday to Me!

It's birthday season at our house. My turn. I celebrated by working my tail off at work, having a sack lunch with a district judge and then topping it off with a committee meeting I have scheduled at church tonight. I know what you're thinking - Oh the glamour! Just another day in the life only now I can say I'm 25.

(Ok, don't ruin it for those who know my real age!)

Wild, Wild Week

Ok, I fell off the side of the earth with blogging last week - So sorry! As I wrote before, last week was Brandon's final exam week. Boy were we busy, busy! We topped it with a activity-heavy weekend, but a fun weekend at that. Brandon still does not have his semester grades yet, but he feels relieved to be done for now.

I had a good Mother's Day. We celebrated by staying busy at church with commitments there yesterday and then eating at a nice restaurant for lunch. Despite the boys being really tired from a long morning, they were well behaved. They gave me a gift certificate for my ebay goodies, which I am excited about. But the REAL gift came yesterday afternoon in the form a 2.5 hour nap!! Ahhhhh.... A great day!

Little Debbie

When I was pregnant with Blaine, my favorite treat was oatmeal cream pies made by Little Debbie. I would get the extra big pies that are hard to find and have at least one a day, most of the time more. (With Braylon I craved Mexican food, which I previously hated to eat...) Anyway, I had so many oatmeal cream pies while pregnant, that I haven't gotten any at the store probably since that time until this last week. So funny to me how now that's Blaine favorite snack - It must remind him of the womb!!

Crunch Time

This time of year is busy for everyone. We are not excluded in that! This week is final exam week for Brandon. He's been a busy man studying, studying, studying every waking moment (and getting up EARLY during non-waking moments to study some more!). Braylon's end of the school year program is set for this Friday. I'm leading a 4/5 year old choir at church that will perform for the first time this weekend. To top it, Blaine was ill last week and Braylon ill today. I'll tell you what, when this week is over, don't be alarmed when you hear a sonic boom blasting in your ears - It's just Brandon issuing a gigantic sigh of relief that he survived another semester.

A Healthy Lifestyle

I got this as an email and thought it was too cute not to post. Try some of these tips to relieve stress:
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom.
Don't Disguise Your Voice !
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that.
4. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their
Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
5. Finish All Your sentences with 'In Accordance With The Prophecy.'
6. Skip down the hall Rather Than Walk
and see how many looks you get.
7. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat,
with a serious face.
8 . Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go.'
9. Sing Along At The Opera.
10. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area and Play tropical Sounds All Day.
11. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You have a headache.
12. When The Money Comes Out The ATM,
Scream 'I Won! I Won!'
13 . When Leaving the Zoo, Start Running towards the Parking lot, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!'
14. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, 'Due To The Current Cost of Gas, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.'