We've been busy in the last few weeks. We had Ella's birthday. We had my parents and oldest brother Barton visiting. We went camping at Great Basin National Park (I highly recommend it) with Nana, Papa, Devin, and Kelly. I couldn't find my camera for most of it, since Lear got a hold of it, took a bunch of fuzzy pictures of Ella in her pajamas, and hid it in his toy bin (he blamed it all on Ella). Here are two pictures that I do have:
Sleeping Beauty
Ella got four, yes four tiaras for her birthday, along with matching play jewelry, a dress-up outfit, and Princess sheets for her bed. She was in princess heaven.
And The Toothless Wonder
Lear has had a front tooth that was shorter than the other. I thought that he had ground it down, but the dentist pointed out that if that were the case, both of his front teeth would've been shorter. What actually happened is that sometime Lear fell on his face, and jammed the tooth into his gums. I have no idea when it happened. My guess is that it happened at preschool, and they forgot to tell me. Anyway, when he jammed the tooth in, the root broke. By the time we got an x-ray of it, the root had already reabsorbed into his gums, and all he had left was the crown of the tooth. The dentist said to try to get it out, and if we couldn't do it, we'd have to have it pulled. So, we wiggled it, we pulled on it, and we tried to tie a string around it, but nothing worked. I took Lear back to the dentist so they could give him some laughing gas, numb up his mouth, and pop the tooth out. We probably could've skipped the laughing gas and numbing altogether and simply took some pliers to it ourselves, because it popped out so easily the dentist was surprised. Now, however, since the tooth came out accidently and not naturally, he'll be toothless for a year or so because the permanent tooth is so far up in his mouth. At least it wasn't his permanent tooth that was covertly destroyed.
Lear quote: "Ella's a Farticus!" She was pretty tooty in the car one day, and this is Lear's synopsis, I guess. I wonder if he knows who Sparticus is?
Ella quote: "Danika is my best friend!"
Lear has had a front tooth that was shorter than the other. I thought that he had ground it down, but the dentist pointed out that if that were the case, both of his front teeth would've been shorter. What actually happened is that sometime Lear fell on his face, and jammed the tooth into his gums. I have no idea when it happened. My guess is that it happened at preschool, and they forgot to tell me. Anyway, when he jammed the tooth in, the root broke. By the time we got an x-ray of it, the root had already reabsorbed into his gums, and all he had left was the crown of the tooth. The dentist said to try to get it out, and if we couldn't do it, we'd have to have it pulled. So, we wiggled it, we pulled on it, and we tried to tie a string around it, but nothing worked. I took Lear back to the dentist so they could give him some laughing gas, numb up his mouth, and pop the tooth out. We probably could've skipped the laughing gas and numbing altogether and simply took some pliers to it ourselves, because it popped out so easily the dentist was surprised. Now, however, since the tooth came out accidently and not naturally, he'll be toothless for a year or so because the permanent tooth is so far up in his mouth. At least it wasn't his permanent tooth that was covertly destroyed.
