Played Parcheesi; headache

Jack and I played Parcheesi today, by the rules. He did really well, but got bored of it after a while. He counted the dots on the dice, counted the spaces to move, and strategized. That's math practice, right?

We played outside today :D And I read him some books :D But I didn't get the laundry or dishes done. Someday I'm going to get everything on my list done, AND play with the kids!

I had a nasty headache this evening. But by the grace of God I found a way to sit with a bag of ice on my head, and the pain went away. Stayed like that for 10-20 minutes or so, and it's gone! Hallelujah!

Today's photo is from a couple of weeks ago, at our new pediatric dentist's office:

That's Jack in the X-ray chair. This was his first time to have X-rays done of his mouth while he was awake. He had 3 cavities in his mouth back in November 2008; when the dentist put him under to fill them, she did X-rays while he was unconscious, and found 3 more cavities in there. SIX cavities! Poor kid got another one just a couple of months later, then another soon after. But the dentist took a "wait and see" approach; she said that they didn't look very big, and since they weren't there just a couple of months before, then they couldn't be very deep. She had us come back every 3 months for a while to check, and we just tried our hardest to brush after every meal. This dentist agreed, they look small, but he tried to take X-rays to be certain. The cavities are in Jack's molars, and to get an X-ray of those you have to bite a piece of hard plasticy stuff just exactly right. Jack tried, but had trouble getting it right, and the dentist and his helper didn't want to push him too hard and make it a bad experience, so they told him he did great and let him go.

But before he got up, I took a pic. I was so proud of my little boy for being so cooperative with the dentist and his helper!

Lily did great, too. The dentist jokingly called her "fortress mouth" b/c she locked her lips tightly shut and didn't want to let anyone look at her teeth. But she didn't fuss at all when he pried her lips open and looked at her teeth and put fluoride varnish on them. I walked out of that office with many compliments on my good kids, and elated that they did so well and had a good time.