The last two weeks have been an emotional roller coaster that I am choosing to disembark from immediately.
We came home from our 11 glorious days in Florida to below freezing temperatures. It took my body a few days to adjust. I think I wore four to five layers of clothes. I simply could not get warm. There was an announcement yesterday that this is the coldest December in 100 years in our area. Pleas note: I HATE, LOATHE, DESPISE the cold. Not to mention it totally ruins the morale of the household.
We celebrated Kaitlynn's birthday and the life of a remarkable young man, Jacob, who was called home to Jesus after complications of a successful heart surgery (We will miss you Jacob).
Although Kaitlynn and Jackson are succeeding in school, socially they are having difficulty. This time instead of taking their toys away I started to ground them from TV. Amazingly enough their bedrooms are INCREDIBLY clean (LOL!!!).
Speaking of incredibly clean....Have you ever taken a 7, 5 and 2 year old to the dentist!? Not really sure what I was thinking when I made the appointment but the results were most excellent. Kaitlynn is doing very well, no cavities, teeth look great and she has two 'wiggly' teeth as she calls it. It looks as though she might come to the Christmas dinner table with a gap in her smile. She is so excited.
Jack on the other hand is cutting his 6 year molars and is completely miserable. However, his check up was also good with no cavities. He does have an issue with his bite but the Doctor believes it will correct itself when his permanent teeth come in. Madelynn stole the show at the dentist not that it should shock anyone. She did GREAT with the teeth cleaning loves her new princess toothbrush and also had no cavities.
But then we come back around to the 'wiggly' teeth. Kaitlynn and I were talking about them and the one tooth is very loose and the tooth fairy came up. So I explained the tooth fairy, the very special pillow case that was only allowed on your pillow if you had a tooth to deposit in the special pocket. How the pillow would jingle in the morning because it had money in it in exchange for the baby tooth. Thank God my mom found it in the back of the closet.
I thought the kids eyes were going to bug out of their heads. You could see the wheels turning in their little minds. Suddenly I saw something that really worried me. Jackson and Madelynn had their fingers in their mouth checking for loose teeth. Jackson told me he had two 'wiggly' teeth too. I explained that this was not what the dentist said. These two teeth are brand new and you will keep them forever, THEY ARE NOT LEAVING YOUR MOUTH.
The best conversation came from Madelynn when she tried to tell me she also had 'wiggly' teeth. I looked in her mouth and told her those teeth just got there how about we let them stay there for a while before we take them out. Very disappointed she told me 'oh ok mommy'.
My new fear is that one day I will walk into one of there rooms only to find them trying to use Jack's tools to remove a tooth. I don't even want to think about how I would explain that to the dentist. I didn't realize I made the tooth fairy so exciting to want to walk around and yank your teeth out.
So after an emotional up and down two weeks, the laughter was great. Now if I can keep all the teeth in until they are supposed to come out life would be wonderful.
TTFN~
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