I went to Hee Haw's with Sandy's class today and was a chaperone over this group of kids. It was a lot of fun.

My kids were so proud this Sunday. They built crazy towers. They thought they invented towers! Ha ha! I didn't have the heart to tell 'em they've been around forever!

Abscessed Tooth!

Ellie has an abscessed tooth. She has an appointment to have it pulled on October 24th. It looks like she will be getting her first visit from the tooth fairy.

@ first I thought she had a bad tooth from my bad parenting. But the dentist said it was a cavity under a filling she had done May 21st at "Mr. Flick's." He explained that medium sized fillings are risky because they may be fine with a large filling, but more often need a root canal. He said, unfortunately, that sometimes dentists fill hoping that's all it'll need.

She's going to need lots of other work, too. She'll have a couple of crowns and more fillings. She has some cavities on her front teeth from drinking a bottle for so long, but he's just going to leave them alone. She'll be losing those teeth soon enough and he thought it would be a waste of our money to cap them.

MY PRETTY BABY HAS MY WEAK TEETH! :( Grrrrrr!

WORK, WORK, WORK (And a sick 4-year old)

I'm at work every morning this week at 8 AM! That was not an exclamation for excitement. . . I'm upset. Ellie was awake all night last night crying about her tooth. I kept Sandy home from school today to stay with Ellie because I didn't want to freak out her teacher @ preschool. Sandy called me and said Ellie woke up in a great mood with a big smile on her face. What a relief! I'm off today at 12:30 and then I'll be home. I'll be taking Sandy to pick up her homework assignments for the week so we can get started.

Our family drove up Provo Canyon last night to Nunn's Park. We walked on the beautiful trail up past the upper falls and back down again. I love it up there. The weather was crisp and cool. We watched a mountain goat roam around by the falls disappearing in and out of the trees seen a little more than half way up in the picture. I'd like to go walking up there often until its too cold.