Our Family – Page 62 – Andelin Adventures

New Camera-My Early Christmas Present

Our Fuji camera started having some problems back in November. We were at the Locks of Love hair drive and we were taking pictures (of course) and the camera locked. We couldn’t turn it off, we couldn’t scroll through the pictures to see them it wouldn’t do anything it was just frozen. So we had to take out the battery and put it back in again to get it to reset. It got really bad on Thanksgiving. We were having to take the battery out to reset it after EVERY PICTURE WE TOOK! So we relied on our phones for awhile and I was very glad Liesl was in town to take pictures at Jeremy’s baptism and after party. Shortly after that we decided to just bite the bullet and buy a new camera, but a nice one. We are kind of sick of buying the little digital cameras that so far have all started giving us issues right after the one year warranty has expired. Kyle got me a Cannon EOS Rebel T3i and it arrived today! I thought about being a good girl and not playing with my new camera until Christmas, because it was supposed to be my Christmas present, but Kyle insisted that I pull it out and charge it and start playing with it now so that I would be able to use it Christmas morning.

Say CHEESE!

Little Helper

Lydia wanted to help change Adam’s diaper, and I LOVE that he was just laying there for her! So I took a picture:

Dental Work Galore

Today we spent a couple of hours at the dentist. Every kid needed work of some kind. Chloe, Dinah and Tyra all had cavities. Jeremy needed sealants. And Ethan needed two teeth pulled. Apparently these are baby teeth that the dentist has been waiting for them to fall out on their own since at least our last visit six months ago, and they just aren’t coming out on their own. The adult tooth, is actually coming in and pushing on the baby teeth and they are falling out one piece at a time instead of in one whole piece. I asked the dentist to somehow label the teeth and mark them so the tooth fairy knows which is which, and he put them in these little boxes for us:

Yes tooth “J” is in three pieces. This next picture is rather blurry, but that upper tooth surrounded by the red tissue, is the adult tooth that was crumbling the baby teeth. It’s totally already quite a ways out, and those baby teeth were just refusing to budge!

Jeremy’s First Pack Meeting

Grandma is still here visiting and got to come with us, to Jeremy’s first pack meeting. We finished the bobcat requirements with him a few days ago, and so they gave that to him tonight.

Ethan also received a few awards. They gave him his computers belt loop, and his communicator, geologist and crafstman activity badges. Two more activity badges to go and he will have all twenty! However, I have to say that I am really upset that they didn’t give him his Arrow of Light tonight. They had it there, but I guess the cub master didn’t plan a nice ceremony for presenting it to him. I just thought it would have been neat to have Ethan receive the highest award in cub scouting on the same night as Jeremy was receiving the very first award in cub scouting, and we had Grandma with us! She lives in California and so she is not usually around to be here for stuff like that. So I’m a bit disappointed about the lack of preparation.

The rest of the pack meeting was a stone soup dinner, and there were some stockings for the kids to help decorate to give to some of the inactive scouts. However, I don’t think parents actually watched their children and some of the stockings ended up COVERED in glue and glitter. At the end of the night, we got to take home our pot which still had lots of broth in it. So after putting the kids to bed, I added some more vegetables and beans and stuff, and separated the soup into three meals to freeze for later. 🙂

Snow

It snowed so much while we were away from the house this morning, that we had to park in the street and wait for the driveway to be shoveled. Parking in a snow covered driveway leads to the snow melting, and then re-refreezing in the form of ice. And trying to pull in and out of an ice covered driveway is not fun.

Tyra got out of the van to try to brush the snow off of the purple car so that it wouldn’t freeze to the car (it is always easier to brush off when it’s fresh):

Kyle and Ethan shoveled the snow from the driveway:

Here is the rest of the snow covered yard:

In the spring, that will all melt, and help to water the lawn to make it green. Isn’t it beautiful?