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Chloe is actually walking! Sunday evening, Kyle and I sat on the floor with our legs making a diamond and we had Chloe practice walking from the one to the other. But this morning she walked all the way down the hall (without holding onto the wall) to come to me! And throughout the rest of the day she has been walking all over the place. Sometimes she falls, and when she does she decides that she’s down so therefore she might as well crawl. But when she’s up she’s been walking!
Obedience
Opening song: “Do as I’m Doing” Children’s Songbook pg 276
Opening prayer:
Scripture: Ephesians 6:1 “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
Lesson: For our lesson we broke up the scripture and explained each part. Who are children? What does it mean to obey? Who are the parents?……We explained that mommy and daddy aren’t going to ask them to do anything naughty, and that when we ask them to do something it is for their safety and their happiness. We also explained what happens when everyone obeys-mommy is happier, and doesn’t yell, which means that they are happier as well. But when they don’t listen mommy gets really mad really fast then nobody is happy….
Activity: We had the kids ‘practice’ obeying by playing “Mommy says” (kind of like Simon says).
Closing song:
Closing prayer:
Treat: Candy from the pantry
Mmmm. Yummy, beautifully golden goodness, APRICOTS! I have not had the opportunity to pick and can apricots in several years now. We used to get them from Kyle’s Uncle Denis, but his tree was really old and died a few years ago. Kyle’s mom has an apricot tree in her yard but every year she complains that a late frost killed all of the blossoms. This year however, she called us up on a Sunday afternoon and said “There are apricots on the tree and they are ready!” So we packed up the kids and packed up what we were planning on having for dinner (we weren’t going to get back in time to eat it, and it had been cooking in the crockpot all day so I wasn’t going to just put it in the fridge for ‘later’) and we hopped in the MegaVan and went to go get apricots.
The tree was loaded with apricots, although a whole bunch of them weren’t quite ready. So Kyle and I picked the ones that looked like they wouldn’t last until the next Saturday, which was the next time we were able to go back out to pick them. We wanted to leave some lower apricots for Karen since she could reach those ones, and all of the most ripe apricots were in the top of the tree, where the sun can kiss them, so I climbed up there to get them:
Yes that is me in my church dress climbing an apricot tree. 🙂
Then we went back the next weekend to finish havesting the apricots that we had left, and so for the past two weeks I have been going crazy in the kitchen with apricots!
Apricot pancakes, apricot muffins, apricot jam, apricot syrup (for pancakes and waffles), apricot ice cream, apricot sorbet, apricot upside-down cake, apricot cheesecake, & apricot pineapple smoothies.
I plan to post recipes of the apricot recipes that I REALLY like, on our recipe blog. I’ve already posted the recipe that I came up with for apricot pancakes because they turned out REALLY good. So be sure to check there for ideas of what to do with apricots, if you ever have a whole bunch and don’t know what to do with them. 😉
I think most of our kids have gone straight from crawling, to climbing. You would think that they would walk first, and that would be your hint that climbing is around the corner, but most of our kids seem to have had that backwards.
This afternoon, I was in my room working on a project on my computer, when I heard Chloe start crying like she was freaked out, followed by Tyra running down the hall to tell me that Chloe was ON the table. Tyra did not say which table, so as I went out to go get Chloe OFF of the table, I was wondering HOW IN THE WORLD she got on the dining table. She was on the coffee table, not the dining table. 🙂 But when I saw her, she was standing there on the end of the table, holding onto the arm chair for support, and she was just crying like she was scared. I *thought* about going to get my camera, but I didn’t want to be mean and make her stand there and wait for me to take pictures. 😉
LATER I heard her crying like she was freaked out again. So I went to go get her thinking “Oh boy. Here we go again.” This time she was sitting on the other end of the table, and I decided, that since she had climbed up there a second time in the same day, despite her being freaked out, that I would get the camera! And what do you know? She stopped crying when she saw that I wasn’t freaking out.
I hate going to the dentist. I don’t mind taking the kids to their appointments, but I just hate going to mine. I don’t mind the cleanings, or the x-rays or any of that, but I hate finding out what condition my teeth are in. I just have bad teeth. It’s inherited I’m sure of it. My parents have bad teeth, most of my siblings have bad teeth, and I remember my dad telling me that my grandpa had bad teeth as well. It’s just genetic. Usually every time I go in for a check-up something is wrong with my teeth and that means having another appointment (or two) scheduled shortly after the check-up to get those other issues fixed. That was no different today.
I went in and they hygienist took some digital x-rays, then she probed my teeth to see how the pockets in my gums are doing. I have four crowns IN A ROW in my mouth and the gums up there have issues, sometimes the pockets up there have been 6 or 7 mm deep, this time the deepest pocket was 5mm, so YAY some improvement! Not a lot, but some. Then she polished my teeth and proceeded to scrape plaque off. Now I have to say, I don’t have bad teeth because I don’t take care of them. I do brush, floss and rinse with flouride (to help my teeth) in the morning and I brush, floss and rinse with listerine (to help keep my gums healthy) before bed. And I admit that I’m not perfect about it, but more often than not, that is my routine. But really it just feels like it doesn’t matter HOW much I brush or floss, or even rinse my mouth out….my teeth STILL have issues. In fact as the hygienist was scraping plaque off my teeth she told me that there was actually a lot less plaque there than she would usually find on someones teeth. So YAY, again my brushing my teeth is actually doing something and I’m not completely wasting my time. 🙂
After she flossed my teeth it was time for the dentist to come in, and this is the part of the appointment that I always dread. After looking at my teeth, then at the x-rays and then back at my teeth he determined that I have two new cavities, and one area on watch because it looks like it could turn into a cavity. At my last appointment he told me I needed another crown, but we decided to wait on it because our insurance won’t cover crowns. So we’ll wait until open enrollment Kyle will change to a plan that cover crowns and we’ll take care of it next year, so the dentist had patched it up for me so that I can get by until then. This time, I’m up to needing TWO crowns, the one that had been patched last time, and I had a tooth break (slowly because I didn’t even notice it breaking I just noticed the hole) and that one needs to be crowned as well. Dang it! And when I was pregnant with Chloe he had told me that I need to have my wisdom teeth out, but they don’t like doing that when you’re pregnant so that got put on hold too. And really I remember what Kyle went through when he had HIS wisdom teeth pulled out, and I REALLY don’t look forward to having mine out. But they haven’t finished coming up through the gums. They just seem to be stuck half covered by gum tissue and half exposed, so really they just need to be pulled out. Also if they were to finish coming up on their own I doubt that I would even be able to shut my jaw, there isn’t enough space back there for the wisdom teeth, and when I’m “teething” (which happens occasionally) my gums are so swollen back there that I can’t shut my jaw without major pain, so those teeth need to just come out, but that terrifies me.
So my end conclusion, going to the dentist is depressing. And my oral hygiene habits can’t really get much better than they are unless I brush each time I munch on anything, but really how am I supposed to remember to do that? And that might mean me being in the bathroom to brush my teeth for a good part of every day (what can I say? I like to munch!) So maybe I just need to increase my calcium intake…. Because maybe if I increase my calcium intake, my body won’t be robbing my teeth for calcium, and MAYBE that will help slow down the deterioration of my teeth….
But I can’t stand the aftertaste that milk leaves in my mouth (but maybe that would be a good incentive to brush afterward???) So more smoothies made with milk and more ice cream shakes on the menu please? Thank you! 😀
