CrAzY Working Mom: teeth

Showing posts with label teeth. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Something's Missing!!!!

At 5 years old, Tyler lost his first tooth today, 1-11-11!!!

It has been loose for a couple of weeks now and over the weekend he was scared anytime that he ate something that he'd lose it. He worried that when he slept that it would fall out and he would swallow it. This morning you could see that it was almost hanging out. There was already another tooth visible behind it. This presented a bit of a problem for me because the thought of pulling a tooth makes me nauseous. I just don't do well in that department. In fact, I don't even like to see a loose tooth, much less touch it!!

I knew that Tyler needed that tooth out of his mouth, so I "Momed" up and washed my hands, grabbed a paper towel and proceeded to pull his tooth. So, as he lost his very first tooth, I also pulled my very first tooth. But, I can't really say I "pulled" it. I grabbed a hold of it and it pretty much fell out in my hand.

He got an instant grin on his face and then ran to his room and said he didn't feel good. He said he felt sick to his stomach. The poor little guy seems to have the same weakness as his mom. But, in no time he was back up and playing again and I convinced him to let me snap a photo to share with the world! My "baby" boy is losing his baby teeth...thus growing up. *sigh*

Oh, and he does NOT believe in the tooth fairy. He says that it is Mom and Dad and he knows that we will leave him money whether or not he believes in the tooth fairy! So, we'll have to see how the TF feels about this one...

Thursday, October 22, 2009

What do I Brush?

It is so entertaining to watch little Emily (age 13 months) with her big brother, Tyler (age 4) and Shelby (age 6). She wants to do everything they do. Tonight they were brushing their teeth. We only have two step stools in the bathroom. She was first upset that she did not have a stool. Shelby offered up her stool since she is tall enough to make due without one. Then Emily was given a toothbrush and she brushed her teeth...well, sort of. She did have the brush in her mouth at one time before she moved on to her hair.

She is also talking a lot more now. She will point to things and say, "What's That?". She also loves to say "Bye-Bye", "No-No", "Night-Night". It seems as though she picks up more and more each day. In no time she'll be choosing a Medicare supplement plan. I think that her being in day care is making her personality really shine as well. She is just too funny. She was singing itsy bitsy spider yesterday while we were waiting at the doctor's office. She was quite the trooper as she had to have an in/out catheter procedure done to collect some urine as well as blood drawn out of her teeny tiny arms. The staff at the doctor's office are all so great and treated her with the utmost care and respect for myself and my mother-in-law who was of course by my side. Emily has been really sick for the last week. She has been sick at her little tummy. She has eaten very lightly and what little bit she does eat she vomits up shortly there after. The doc tested for urinary/kidney infections, strep throat, and pneumonia. Once those three were ruled out he determined that she must have had a stomach bug that has left her with ulcer-like symptoms. She was not dehydrated. That was my main concern since she was not drinking very much and what little she was did not stay in her body for very long. She seems to be feeling better now. She's still not in tip-top shape but she's doing much better than she was. It was so good to see her playing with her siblings tonight, and back to her silly self!

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Just playin' catch up...

Another weekend in the books already. This weekend was the annual "Higgins" family reunion. My little sister from Texas is staying with us for two weeks. She got to see family that she hasn't seen in several years. It was a fun time and I enjoyed being in the company of other CrAzY family members! I have uploaded the photos to Facebook and you can find them here. In the collage below, are my sisters and I with my Dad. In the bottom photo is my Aunt who made those purses out of juice boxes. The girls loved them! We do an auction every year to raise funds for the next year. I won't say what the purses cost, suffice it to say that the reunion next year will be nice! *grin*

Shelby lost a tooth:

Now she has no front teeth. It's quite comical to hear her say certain things that contain the sounds "th" and "st". I think she looks as cute as a button. Now she's missing three teeth total. Her bottom teeth have grown back, thankfully.

Emily (and I) got a sunburn:

I feel really bad about it. When an infant is sunburned, a parent can be the only one to blame. She usually swims in a float that is covered. The water in our pool was a bit cooler than normal and she wanted to be held. She and I were on a raft that sits in the water. We were in the water a bit longer than I thought we were. We're both a bit red. She's taking it like a champ, though and I can promise one thing...she will not be in the pool again without being drenched in sunscreen!

Overall we had a jam packed weekend filled with family fun. This has been a very busy summer for our family so far. It's tough to keep up with three kids as well as my sister being here. We're having a great summer and I'm enjoying my time with my little sister playing the Wii, listening to Mp3 players. I hope she's enjoying hers as well!

Monday, June 01, 2009

Blogging - this IS a CrAzY Life, but it's MY life...

I am only 49 posts away from three thousand posts on this blog! That's insane.

We went 4 wheeler riding this weekend. Spent some time with old friends and made some new ones as well! Of course there are photos on Facebook. Clicking on the collage will make it larger so you can see the images a little clearer if you so choose.

Shelby lost another tooth yesterday. She was upset that it was loose and she was unable to get it out. I bribed her with swimming. Brien was able to easily extract the tooth and the tooth fairy added to her savings account. I don't know if I've ever mentioned here, but I have a severe problem with loose teeth. It makes me nauseous just to see a wobbly tooth. I am not the woman for the job when extractions need performed. I've never passed out, but it sure does make me feel like I could. She is saving for a Nintendo DS and she's earning money each day for helping out at the house and the office. Hopefully by the end of the summer she'll have enough money to buy it herself. I have a feeling that knowing she has worked hard and saved to buy something might make her appreciate it just a tad more than she would otherwise. What do you think?

I have come to realize that there is no other word to describe my life any better than this one: BUSY. Well, maybe non-stop, hectic, or perhaps the standard: CrAzY will continue to work just fine. There just aren't enough hours in the day anymore to keep up with it all. I am trying to learn to accept this fact and just go with the flow but it is very hard for me.

My little sister is flying in this week. I need to ~~clean my house~~ prepare for her visit. We are all very excited to see her and spend some quality time with her. We will also be going to the family reunion this weekend, so we'll be getting in lots of family time! I'm looking forward to it.

Emily is crawling all over the place now and pulling up on everything. Where has the last 9 months gone? They have seriously just flown by. In three months we will be planning a 1 year old's birthday party...MY one year old's first party. WOW! Now, that is a strong realization. My baby is slowly but surely becoming a toddler. Before I know it she'll be using an acne treatment She also has two teeth, the bottom teeth. She cut them both at the same time. It actually wasn't that bad. I had hear ears pierced. (I can't remember if I've posted that here or not). She cried just a bit, but since then they've been healing well and she's not bothering them a bit.

I'm sure that there are many more things that I probably have neglected to mention in this post but I am just so worn out that I can't even bring myself to write about it.

We will be hosting another giveaway begining this week. You won't want to miss this one! Stay tuned for all of the details. There are some great movies we've watched over the last couple of weeks and I will be posting reviews for them this week as well.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Oscar Takes Over Mom's Blog

Hey everyone! This is your friendly neighborhood wiener dog, Oscar here coming to ya from this thing that always sits in Mommy's lap. Mom is too busy and tired to write, so she gave me the task. She wanted me to tell you about the latest happenings at the CrAzY Working Mom household. Shelby lost her third tooth today. Well, she didn't lose it, so I don't know why they call it that. It's wrapped in a paper towel under her pillow. I got in trouble for trying to sniff it out earlier. I thought I was the only one in this house that hid things. It was her third tooth, but one of the all important front teeth. She sounds very funny when she calls my name now. I hope she will not be like this forever! They say that some fairy will come to our room tonight and take her tooth and leave her something under her pillow...NOT on my watch! I won't let anyone in her room. Grrrrr...

Tyler and Emily are not in good moods. They have pink eyes. I don't know what that means, but mom had to hold them down and put some stuff in their eyes. They both cried when she did it and I don't like it when they cry! Tyler loves his baby sister and Mom said that she thinks that Tyler loved her a little bit too much last night and that he must have brought her a pink eye home from his pre-school. I don't know why this didn't make Mom happy. A lot of things that Tyler does to baby Emily makes Mom unhappy, though.

We are going to have a lot of company over on Sunday for Easter. I think Easter is where I get to find eggs in the yard and eat them before the kids do. The man on the big magic box is saying that it is going to rain on Sunday so Mom thinks that we might need to find eggs on Saturday instead. This didn't make Mom very happy either.

Tomorrow Mom is going to go have her pedi's cured. I think that's what she told me. She said that this will make her happy! She can't wear flip flops yet because she hasn't had her pedi's cured. I sure hope that getting her feet cured will make her happy and she'll be in a better mood when she comes home tomorrow.

The kids are watching the magic box...

This is the same thing they watched yesterday, and the day before. Maybe I'll go see what Mom is doing in the kitchen. Something smells good in there. I wonder if she'll drop some? Mom will be back for LATSOF, so don't worry. Oh, and she also said that I had to say something about lingerie camisoles. I don't even know what they are. But, I bet they'd be fun to chew on. Thanks for reading. Woof, Woof!

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Round Two...Ding!

When I picked Shelby up from daycare yesterday her teacher told me she had a "surprise" for me. Shelby smiled and this is what I discovered:

Shelby has lost her second tooth!

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Saturday Photo Hunt - Bright

My 60th

This Week's Theme: Bright
SPH Headquarters ~ The Other 59

Keeping their teeth bright and shiny! Notice that they are not using their toothbrushes. The reason this photo was snapped was because they were using Mom & Dad's toothbrushes! It's much more fun to use someone else's, right?!
**I thought it was obvious, but please only add your link to Mr Linky if you are playing along with the hunt. I will delete your link if you're just trying to get a free link and you're not playing along! I have already deleted some...**

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Shelby's Milestone

Shelby informed me on Saturday that she had a loose tooth. More importantly this was her FIRST loose tooth. I was pretty excited about it, but it wasn't that big of a deal to her. Most of her "friends" had already lost teeth so she knew all about it. *rolls eyes* Her dad tried to talk her into pulling her tooth all weekend. She refused to let us even touch it. I did manage to get her to open wide enough to snap this shot:When I got to daycare to pick her up yesterday the director came to me and informed me that she had pulled Shelby's tooth!!! WHAT?! I told her that Shelby's dad was NOT going to be happy b/c he'd been trying to pull it and she wouldn't let him. She was scared that I was serious. Obviously I was joking but it is funny how our children will trust other people before they will trust us! When I got to her classroom she showed me her tooth as well as the gaping hole it left in her mouth:I informed her that she got to put the tooth under her pillow tonight and the tooth fairy would come and bring her some money. She was very excited at this concept. We got her to go to bed without any fuss last night and she was quickly fast asleep. She woke up this morning to find five $1 bills under her princess pillow. She was excited as she counted out the dollars. Now I know this is the part where you say, "WOW, $5 maybe I should pull out my teeth to pay for gas back and forth to work." I have one word to explain my train of thought on this one, inflation! What can you buy with a buck? Also, that first tooth is special. She showed me the money:Then she was looking under her pillow again. She asked, "Where's my tooth?" Ummm...well, errr, the tooth fairy kept it. *blink*
"Why did she keep my tooth?"
"Because she collects them in exchange for money."
"Well, what does she do with them, why would she want teeth?"
...by this time I am thinking to myself, did I ask my mom this many questions about getting money under my pillow?! I think NOT! So, I quickly nipped the 21 question game in the bud by asking what she wanted to buy with her money. That did the trick, she was spouting off ideas all morning. She was still full of ideas by the time I picked her up from daycare this afternoon! The trouble is that all of her ideas were way more expensive than five bucks!!!

Monday, October 29, 2007

Dreams

I had the strangest dream last night. My mother was in need of two teeth. *LOL* Oh, wait it gets even more strange. I went to a doctor and they were going to do work on my teeth for me to remove two teeth so that I could donate them to my mother. I went through the surgery and I remember my mouth being really swollen and I could feel two teeth on the bottom back behind where my other teeth were. The dentist had extended my teeth out farther and somehow made my teeth appear wider. He was going to pull the other teeth when the swelling went down at a time when both of us could be there to transplant from one mouth to the other! Isn't this the craziest thing you've ever heard? I remember the nurse telling me to lie down with a warm pack on my stomach because the procedure that they'd performed on my generally causes some strain on the kidneys. Later on as they were getting my discharge papers together, my teeth started falling out of my mouth. I just remember them feeling loose and I put my hand up to my mouth and they started falling out. I ran to the nurse and she informed me that they'd done an extended procedure while they had me under that would whiten my teeth. She pointed to a machine that looked like it was used for plasma cutting. This was the shell that they'd put on my teeth and it was falling off. Sure enough I went to look at my teeth in the mirror and they were pearly white. Does anyone do dream analyzing? What could this possibly mean? It was odd. I woke up and felt of my mouth to make sure my teeth were all in tact and that I had all of my teeth. Whew! Thank goodness I did. Mom, you don't need any spare teeth do you?! Have you been having a toothache?

CrAzY Working Mom

Search This Blog

Mail Me:

My Daily Reads