Toothless Aiden

Aiden was out shopping with his aunt & Grandma yesterday & tripped on the shopping cart & knocked out his top left front tooth. A few hours and 2 emergency trips to the dentist later it had to be pulled, it had a vertical fracture clear into the root. Dad was able to get off work early & stay with Trevor & Olivia while Mom had to take him back to the dentist after the last appointment was gone. He was a total trooper & let me hold him down, albeit screaming the whole time. It ended up splintering into 3 pieces & afterwards the dentist said it was the toughest extraction he's had to do like that. He told me that I was a brave mom, I responded that no, I was just mean. Good thing we have the best flippin' pediatric dentist office, ever.

We love you Aiden!

Assessing the damage on the way to the dentist....

Their entire waiting room is a giant pirate ship & pirate cove...

In honor of Halloween we stumbled in on Despicable Me day....it was playing on all the tv's, decorated all over the office, Dr. Whitt was Gru & all his office staff & assistants were his minions. Totally awesome!

Poor little guy completely conked out on the way home...

They put all the pieces of his tooth in this little treasure box for him to put under his pillow for the Tooth Fairy. How cute is that?

We have ThE BeSt dentist!

The kids went back to the dentist last week....his office is totally AWESOME! Their waiting room/play area is a massive pirate ship, and then each patient room has a different fun theme:

Olivia chillin & watching Lilo & Stitch on the ceiling.

Trev's turn in the jungle room...

Both the kids got the standard x-rays & then also a 360' panoramic x-ray like Olivia is doing.

This is the cleaning head they were going to use on Aiden but he was too busy freaking out & clinging to me.

Poor broken Kitty Lupin.... $$$

So 2 weeks ago Trevor decided to try to send Lupin down the stairs, Superman style.
Apparently we don't have a cat smart enough to land on his feet.
More pics to follow. And yes, Trevor is earning 10% of the total vet bill by doing extra chores for the next few months.

Aint' she perty?

Aint' she just a beaut???? Comin' along right nicely now, got that nice meaty look to it.

silly Erin......

Would you believe I'm actually not even totally sure how I did this? Something along the lines of sitting in my boss' office barefoot a few days ago.

Typically when I do things like this Rick just laughs at me and shakes his head....

Dr. Trevor

This is one of many similar shots I've taken over the years. Since the cat is gone now Olivia is his only patient. I've never known a surgeon to wear a ninja mask in the O.R. though.... hmmm. The closest I've seen is a jersey cow scrub cap.

Trevor's bug

Trevor had a positive test for the H1N1 virus yesterday.
We caught it early enough that he got started on Tamiflu, so far it's just a nasty fever & some puking. Hopefully that's where it stays & the other kids don't catch it.

My little surgeons....

Oh, to be a parent, to be so proud!
So, if you have been following our family's blog over the past year you will remember a few posts about our little cat, Tonks. There was this incident, and then this one... oh, and then this time.
Yes, it's time, I have another story.
Poor Tonks, but you know... she really does set herself up for these stories, she can run faster than the kids if she wants to.
So, yesterday morning we were getting ready to head to the store & both of the kids were in the kitchen. Rick walks in there to tell them to get their shoes on & here is the scene he finds:

Trevor & Olivia have Tonks pinned on her back on the kitchen table & we can hear them talking to her.
"About what?" you might be asking yourself.....

"Hold still, I'm a doctor... you're going to be ok, you need to hold still"

Well, apparently they also had a butter knife & were "doing surgery" on her stomach. Something they saw nothing wrong with & were totally fine telling their Dad about.

Needless to say, they got a major time-out for that one as Rick & I laughed in the other room.

Random conversations with the Pediatrician

So Trevor had a check-up with Dr. Jensen (a.k.a. the best Pediatrician ever).

Here's some of the highlights of the conversation:

Part I

Dr. Jensen: Ok, so we're all done, everything looks good. Do you have any questions for me?

Trevor: Yeah.

Dr. Jensen: Ok, Trevor, what do you want to know about?

Trevor: Rhinos.

Part II

Nurse: Ok guys, time for your shot. Trevor, who do you want to go first?

Trevor: Sweetheart.

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Oh yeah... and then after church on Sunday Trevor goes running up to one of his friend's dad in the hallway & asks him

"Are you Spiderman?!?"

I love having a boy.