Week Nine

This was a pretty eventful week for Zaya. On Wednesday, she had her bi-annual appointment with the pediatric dentist. Zaya sees a special pediatric dentist in Saginaw because she hit her tooth sometime when she was very young and it has turned very grey. She has never been very good at all at the dentist. She always cries and screams and doesn't really let Dr. Bentowski do much. About a week ago, I started warning her about the upcoming visit. I told her that she was a big girl now and that I knew that she was going to be very brave at the dentist. I had found a Sophia toy at Marshalls on sale last month and had been saving it the basement. I tried to motivate Zaya by telling her that if she was good, she could have it. Well, all of that worked. She was so brave and sweet at the dentist. They were even able to take x-rays of her teeth. The dentist thinks that the grey tooth looks good at the root and doesn't want to pull it at this point. Since Zaya was calm and happy, she suggested that we could maybe glue on a translucent cover to hide the grey. While the grey is not the prettiest, it certainly has become a part of Zaya and I even find it kind of cute. So, we gave Zaya the choice. At this point, she wants us to make the tooth look white, so we have another appointment scheduled at the end of March.

 On Thursday, Zaya got to go on a field trip with her friends from "preschool" to Pizza Sams. They do such a nice job there. They took the kids on a tour and let them make their own pizzas. And, best of all,

she got to spend time with her little friends. 

On Friday night, the kids had a Sock Hop at school.  This is always such a fun fundraiser.  They dressed up in 50's attire and played games, ate a pizza dinner, and danced the night away!

On Saturday, Rob went down to Canton to put light fixtures in our rental house. We are getting ready to sell it and we never had any light fixtures in it when we were living there. Poor Rob ended up spending about six hours putting up lights. While Rob was gone, I had the opportunity to take the kids to the church to work at the mobile food pantry. It was such a unique, wonderful service opportunity. What I really loved about it was that my kids could do most of the work while I supervised. They helped fill up the shopping carts with food, which were then pushed out to needy families' cars. Brooklen even got a turn to help push one of the carts with my friend, Julia. After the service project, we went to Meijer. We spent about 90 minutes shopping for groceries, only to find out (as they were ringing me up) that the credit card readers were down and they couldn't process my payment. Luckily, Meijer still had money in their ATM machine. All things considered, the kids were very well-behaved. 

Later that day, after Rob came home, we took the kids to City Forest to go ice skating. I tried to ice skate with my kids, but I was particularly hopeless. I downright determined to learn to do these things that I should have learned when I was a kid. It is so painfully embarrassing, but, mark my words, I will pick it up eventually.