Candi

Karli with her friend dressed for the last day of school.

Of course no day can go without some sort of catastrophe. The last day of school Ken had a golf meeting up near Port Huron so I took Chase and Karli to school. As we were pulling around the back of the school Karli had taken her seat belt off and was sticking her head out the window. Next thing I know she is crying. She said when I hit a bump her mouth hit the top of the window and hit her tooth. When I asked her to open her mouth I was almost sick. One of her top teeth was pushed backward, like instead of pointing down it was pointing toward the back of her throat.

Thankfully it was a baby tooth!

After dropping Chase off I pulled across from the school to get a closer look at her tooth. It was bleeding a little bit and she was in a lot of pain. I called the dentist and they said they needed to take a look to see if it needed to be pulled or what. She did settle down enough to go into school to give her teacher her gift and enjoy her last day a bit. Once at the dentist her tooth did look a little bit better. Her gum was still a little purple but the tooth looked like it shifted back in place some. The dentist did want to pull it but the more he talked about it the more upset she became.

The dentist was going to numb her gums and all, but she just wasn’t having it. He said he didn’t want the dentist to be a traumatic experience for Karli that she never forgot so he told Karli she has 7 days to get the tooth out herself or it would need pulled.

Amazingly, several days later the tooth actually doesn’t look that bad at all. It is almost back into its normal position so I am not going to force her to get it pulled. Since it’s a baby tooth and the next one to probably fall out anyways I think she is fine. She is already missing her two front teeth and it’s the tooth next to the front tooth.

The funniest part was when we were checking out and the receptionist said $70 and Karli said, “For what, he didn’t even do anything?” I told her, “Welcome to the world of the medical field!”

Some things that have been happening the past month or so…

We shot our new guns for the first time! Video coming soon. It was quite interesting…scary, but not as bad as what I thought it would be. I even shot Ken’s .45, which holy powerful!

I painted Karli’s bedroom a brighter pink and put up a zebra border (shhh, it’s duct tape!). I didn’t want to have to paint all the way to the ceiling since it is cathedral ceiling in her room, so I took the easy way out. We bought her a new bunk bed that is a futon that folds out into a full size bed for sleepovers with friends. She wanted as much as possible to be zebra, so I added a little here and there. I also reupholstered her desk chair because she had stains on the pad from who knows what. Now if only she would keep her room clean!

We still kept the clouds on the walls…it is the only thing left original since we first started using this room as a nursery for Chase and then Karli. I couldn’t part with them :(

We bought lots of flowers to spruce up our yard from the Detroit Eastern Market on Flower Day. Of course I bought too much and was sick of planting about half way through.
We tore out these huge ugly juniper shurbs that were around our pool and grew way too big and I planted some smaller perennials and annuals. Unfortunately I put a hole in the sprinkler hose that is buried underground around our pool. Ken was able to fix it pretty easily, but it was still another chore that we didn’t need. We ended up with a much cleaner look around the pool, which I love.

Our dogs have always been able to get out of our fence. When we built our house 11 years ago we had a Keeshond and a Pomeranian that were too big to fit through the fence. Those dogs are in doggy heaven and our current 4 dogs can all fit through the fence. Whether it be them running through to torment the huge dogs behind us who are blocked via electric fence or running out front at people walking their dogs, it’s always been a pain. Especially this last year when we got the puppies. I had told Ken I could not make it through another summer having to babysit the dogs when we let them outside. FINALLY..we came up with a solution. We bought 450, 1 foot tall pickets, actually they were 6 foot long that we had cut into 1 foot, and Ken installed them in between each gap in the fence. It ended up looking pretty decent considering it was not really meant to be.

We installed new gates as well. Ours were in bad shape and unfortunately our fence was discontinued, but we just went with a gate we thought would like nice and again, I think it turned out nicely. Ken has been a busy worker bee around here lately!

We started my home office makeover. We painted two walls a dark salmon color that has grown on me since then. I have a temporary desk set up until we buy some new cabinets and install a built in counter top. We have also ordered new carpet for the office, great room and up the stairs and down the hallway. We decided to wait and do the bedrooms next year. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 11 years with this carpet!

We’ve been a little bit busy with all these projects, but I guess that is what spring is for! We will hopefully be done soon and can sit back and enjoy our summer break with the kiddos.