Dentist visit

Regan’s very first!!! (So there are still a couple first’s left out there)

Regan had her very first dentist appt this morning and she was DA’ BOMB!!!

Mommy had x-rays out the freaking WAZOO!!  The roof of my mouth was just about killing me.  And let me just add here that I do not under any circumstances HATE going to the dentist.  I would much rather visit the dentist than the OBGYN, I think it has something to do with dress code comfortability (is that a word?).  I don’t have to act like I’m not at the dentist and think of the doc being naked too or anything really weird like that.  Anyway, back to the story: The doc comes in - does some weird gum test on me that I ace, says that everything looks really good and wants to know if I want to get my teeth cleaned now since the dental hygenist had a cancellation - “Sure” I say, “Let’s get as much done as possible”.  So I got my gums checked out more thoroughly (my issue with the gum thing is that my old dentist NEVER did any kind of tests on my gums so it was a new experience for me - anyone else done the gum tests?), got a cavity found (that was almost filled today too - talk about SERVICE!), got cleaned teeth, got complimented on my VERY good teeth genes and then it was Miss Regan’s turn.  She sat very nicely in a chair in the corner while Mommy had all this other stuff going on!

Regan got up in Miss Nancy’s (dental hygenist) chair, wiggled around enough that Dr. Davis mentioned that she was a wiggle butt.  I heard him so I just told her that once Miss Nancy was ready she needed to sit really still.  They talked about doing x-rays on her but Miss Nancy wanted Regan to get more used to her so the Oct visit will include x-rays for her I believe.  Regan got to hold the “sucker” (vacuum that sucks all the saliva out of your mouth so that you think you drank a whole vat of beer before getting there!).  She also got to help paint her teeth with “grape jelly” (a flouride treatment just to help harden the enamel and protect from other stains and things of that nature).  And she got her teeth cleaned as well like a REALLY BIG GIRL!!!

She got 2 toys for being there for soooo long (my appt was at 10 and her’s was at 11), she got a new toothbrush, and Crest for kids toothpaste (with sparkles).  They really seemed to enjoy having her today and she seemed to really take to them and the whole idea of the dentist so……

We kind of had a big day today! 

Sunday

Wow, end of the day and I almost forgot to say something.  Nothing profound at this point.  Nothing of real interest either probably.  But I must do what must be done!

Got up a little late.  No noise from the princesses room. Got in a shower (BONUS - Schwing!).  Finally heard noise from the rugrat.  Got her up and going (she seems to be better but she still feels warm every once in a while).  Went for coffee. Got home, had lunch, put her in her room - (yes, I would say naptime but for some reason that no longer exists in this house on the weekends).  When she finally had enough, she started banging on her door, got up there and there are freaking toys and books EVERYWHERE!!!  So got her changed back into clothes and underwear (that is at least going really well still!). Asked her to help me clean up her room.  So I had her make a pile of stuffed animals that she wanted to keep in the “highrise” (this is what I now refer to has her bed - the floor behind the door is now the “apartment”) and a pile of animals to put back on some book shelves.  She did this very well.  Then we went through the books in her book case.  She was very helpful with that too! 

Have I mentioned my painting party that I’m having soon?  I’m having girlfriends over to help me paint the living room/dining room and upstairs bathroom.  David and I narrowed down our paint selection for our “accent” wall in the living room.  I think that we are down to 4 choices.  I already know the other colors that I want to use in the other rooms.

I Mr. Cleaned the kitchen floor with one of those magic erasers.  Worked well.  Now my arm is sore and tired and I will have to advil myself tonight to not feel like complete crap tomorrow.  It is okay - it REALLY needed to be done.

I just heard her coughing some still.  I really hate this whole thing.  I know that she isn’t sleeping well because of it AND she won’t take her nap.  UGH!  Okay, it really isn’t waking her up.  I just checked on her - just makes you feel so helpless that is all.

Have a great night everyone.

Wrapping Part Two

Have you noticed that I have said NOTHING about wrapping presents again this week?  Yes as of tomorrow it will be one week and I have wrapped nothing else.  Okay, I take that back, I did wrap something for my aunt this morning.

Let’s see, if you were paying attention, you will know that I felt like cr*p Tuesday - Thursday.  Friday night I blew out my back.  It is slowly getting better and I had my mom mess with it a bit tonight as well (since she was here, oh in case you don’t know, she is a masseuse).  It is feeling better but I can’t wait to get on the heating pad tonight.

So, Regan had Cille’s party last night, played with those items this morning while I’m trying to get the house ready for my aunt and mom today.  After nap (which I honestly don’t think consisted of sleeping for very long) she opened presents from my aunt and my mom.  She was VERY pleased with the Play-doh.  She already told me that she wants to stay home tomorrow and “play”.

Seriously, I don’t think that she is asleep yet and I know that she is already plotting what she is going to accomplish with the play-doh alone tomorrow.

Day 21 - Cleaning is for…..

I would say ‘the birds’ but they probably wouldn’t like the correlation since they really like water/rain, okay whatever that saying is.

So, since my 6:30 wake up call this morning (just the stinkin’ alarm, seriously, you think I have wake up call here to this house??!  Don’t think so!)

1) Battled with Miss Thang over clothes, did get her dressed (I won with a certain pair of pants today), got her to Cille’s “On Time” (if you don’t know already, today is a day off work for me so I chose - ‘Did I really DECIDE to do this?!’ - to clean the house today).  2) Got back - got my checkbook straightened out.  3) Put Regan’s dirty clothes in the wash/turned on the drier to “fluff” my whites.  4) Went through Regan’s toys and bagged up the stuff that she really doesn’t need anymore AND ALL THE STINKIN’ MCDONALD’S TOYS.  5) Took her toys, too small clothes and my I-will-never-wear-clothes to Salvation Army  6) Straightened up the living room - moved a couple things around (no not big furniture, just where some of her toys are and the ottoman).  7) Finally emptied out the dishwasher and filled it up again (nice reminder - #8) turn on dishwasher now….pardon the interruption).  9) Easy-Off’ed the oven. (thought that might be important with cooking stuff tomorrow)  10)Made the Maple Pumpkin Cheesecakes (yes, plural - the recipe makes 3 friggin’ pies) - and I have 24 minutes left on the clock for those (smells heavenly too!)  11)  Got the whites folded and I did actually fold all Regan’s clothes too and put them away  12) Finally got a shower today (Yeah, if you smelled that, it was me!).

All that is left at this point is the switching of summer and winter clothes in my closet and getting the dining room table cleaned off.   Sitting here typing this blog is making me realize how sore I’m going to be tomorrow.  I know that I need to push through because we also have Little Gym tonight and I know I will probably pass out during the class (New Ad for LG-”not only does it make the kids sleep good, look at the parents during class time” - Pan to me passed out on the Big Red Mat - drooling!).

Well off I go to clean off the dining room table for 20 minutes (please don’t take that long).  Then up the stairs I guess.  I will let you know if I make it til 8:30pm tonight!

Day 20 - I DID IT!!!!

I actually lived up to my plan - AMAZING!!!

I got Regan down last night (after MAJOR meltdown mode) and moved all the chairs from the dining room to the kitchen.  Got the toys picked up, moved the computer chair, and other misc. items (my cello for one) into the kitchen as well.  I got the carpet shampooed and cleaned up to the best of my ability at this point, did the other half that I didn’t do Sunday night and ran over a couple spots that I wanted to again.

Of course that was the easy part.  The hard part of the story comes now…. 

The CATS!!!  Can you say ANNOYING last night??!!!  So I get them corralled up the stairs and I think that they will just stay there with all the noise going on, uhm not so.  Pita comes down and for some reason just has to be right in the thick of things and I don’t want them downstairs at this point.  So between chasing her, stepping on her a couple times, and trying to grab for her at one point, I completely bent back my ring and pinky fingernails (I’m NOT a sissy about my nails) BUT!, I bent them back in the bed of my nail.  Yeah, ouch doesn’t totally describe the feeling - especially the initial slamming of my nails into the floor as I miss the cat.  Good news, only my ring finger bled.  I did cut all my nails back at that point so that I wouldn’t have any snaggers and I have a band aid on my ring finger so that it doesn’t snag anything (because that is going to really hurt!)

I went ahead and vacuumed this morning so that I could get all the “stuff” out of the kitchen and back where it belonged.

Oh, and Pita and I did make up.

Day 16 - (No idea what to title this…)

Something that I brought up with my online friends is that I will be taking off work next Wednesday to clean my house (my favorite thing in the whole wide world - it isn’t, but positive reinforcement seems to work for me lately). 

This is the thing, most of the people already take off Black Friday so……why bother?  Someone has to be at work for problems and to reprint out a job 3 or 4 times! (Exaggerating here!!)  But seriously, I had off Black Friday for a couple years and it was cool and I did the whole shopping bit but seriously, I’m not that big into shopping (unless it is for someone else) and then trying to figure it all out b/c I don’t write lists regarding x-mas presents and who is going to get what.  So of course that means that some years I remember something that I saw or heard pertaining to a particular person and they get a really good gift that makes sense, and then there are the other years that you are just guessing and for some reason a BIC (flame thrower) multi-use lighter and a tea light candle (is that really even considered a candle?) are given (no, I’m not that bad - but you get my drift).

Back to the topic (obviously I don’t have one today), November has been a REALLY busy month with the craft shows on Saturdays, I just don’t have the ‘umph’ on Sundays to really do anything about the house, plus there is the Regan entertainment for Sundays so, if you need to reach me on Wednesday, you know where I will be!

CATS

Ugh, yes I do love my cats but SERIOUSLY!!!!

Yesterday was about the 3rd time in about 2 weeks that “someone” has not been able to pee IN the litter box.  Of course I don’t know who it is (other than Pita or Pocket - at least I hope).  So I went to “the mattresses” last night and scrubbed the floor, the toilet, the litter boxes (yes, I have 2 for some reason - I’m sure David knows something about this though, and I just forgot).   I swept, I poured new litter (that is another story all together), swept up yet again (yes, this is part of that other story).

I ended up hot, sweaty and pissy (my demeanor - before that gets taken the wrong way)after I was done. 

Now I just hope that I made some kind of point to the 4 legged family members without opposable thumbs.

Secretly I told then that I would beat them to a pulp AND take them back to the pound if they kept this act up.  We shall see what they decide.

(So much for the cute pictures I posted earlier this week).