Another Lost Tooth

Hello! Justin lost tooth #5 this morning, it has been loose for days and I am relieve to have it safely out! We are off school for spring break all week. Today we met some of Justin's kindergarten friends and siblings at a Bounce House and the kids had a great time burning off some energy. I noticed Justin's face looks scratched up in the this picture.....apparently they were roughing it up as well. We also joined the group at Mc Donald's for lunch....Mommy was exhausted when we got home.

We had told Kyle when we got home from Chicago that we had to send all his binkies off to the new babies who now need them more than he does and we were true to our word. Last night Kyle didn't even raise much of a fuss about not having it at bedtime. However, nap time on day #2 was not so easy. I almost gave in....but managed to hold firm when I thought of his dentist and his firm reminder that the binkie has to go. A little sad, but mostly glad to be rid of the germ carrying instrument my son would like to have in his mouth 24/7.

Our dog, Jenna, has had a rough month. First she developed an ear infection that we had trouble treating and one ear then developed an abscess...so the ear infection was gone but now she had an infection on the outer inside part of her ear. And it would not heal. So one day she got anesthesics and they really cleaned the ear out and started cortisone and different ear ointment. We think she is allergic to the ear ointment as it just made things worse and the steriods ended up making our dog incontinent.....she absolutely did not know she was going wee. Our 110 lb dog is a big baby and has never spent more than a brief period of her days anywhere but in the house with us and the cold temperatures outside were not allowing us to put her outside . We tried pads and doggie diapers...none of which work very well. Fortunately, the vet figured out the problem and we weaned her off the steriods and incontinence problem solved. Now the poor dog is still wearing the E collar around her neck to prevent her from scratching her ear and I am still holding me breath daily that it slowly seems to be healing.....very slowly....by using nothing!!!! Thats right stop cleaning and using antibiotics and then it starts to heal....go figure!!!! I think poor Jenna thought we really hated her last week and was quite humiliated by diapers, an e collar and being banished to the non-carpeted portions of the house. I am sooo thankful she is getting better as I couldn't take the mess any longer. Since we got home I have been scrubbing EVERYTHING and now feel we are a pee-free none again.