Snow and Valentine's day

We had snow this year for Valentine's Day. It actually snowed 3 days before V-day so some of the parties planned with the kids friends was delayed until Monday after. Brice need to make a box for his class so we decorated a huggies wipe box. For some reason I started saving these and glad I did because there was a Lightening McQueen box and all Brice really needed to do was put hearts on it. Cadence got her box out she made when she was in Pre-k 3 and sproused it up a little. We also made a few homemade valentines.












Brian was able to be home the day after it snowed so he spent most of the day outside with the kids.

Gymnastics

Cadence and Brice started taking gymnastics in January at University of Gymnastics in Sherman. They both have been talking about it for a long time and they constantly acting like acrobats in the house. Jumping off the couch, flipping of the couch, trying to do cartwheels, etc. I was using more energy putting them in time out and spanking than they were being acrobats. They kept doing it no matter how much trouble they got into. We figured if they are going to act like this we might as well get them training before they really hurt themselves.

Bad teeth

We started the New Year off with visiting the dentist every week for the first month. Cadence's developed an abscess tooth the weekend after Christmas and had it pulled a week later. This tooth was one of her top left back molars. The weekend right after that tooth was pulled her right side of her mouth became sore and by Monday her right side of her face was swollen. Much worse than the left side. She had another abscess tooth and ended up with having both top back molars pulled. We knew that she had cavities but did not have an appt. to get them filled until the end of Jan. Cadence was excited about loosing the tooth and did ok getting the first tooth pulled. When it came to getting the second set pulled it was a little more drastic. We end up going to two different dentist because the first dentist felt sorry for her and wanted to put her to sleep. However that was going to take a least another month to get an appt. for that. Luckly another dentist in town, obviously with more experience, was able to get them pulled without putting her to sleep. Anyway this is over and we are being more strict on what Cadence is doing. I personally had but more trust in her on not eating to much junk and getting her teeth brushed good. Candy no longer exist in the house and a little more supervision on brushing teeth. (she always finds the candy no matter where or how high I put it) Here is few pictures of the first tooth. Fill free to use this as an example on eating way to much candy and not brushing good can effect your teeth.





By the way, Brice does not have any cavities.