Big day tomorrow...

It's Gillian's extraction day tomorrow. The appointment is at 9 am, but we have to be there for 8 am to give her the "magic juice" which will attempt to put her to sleep. The Dr said it works 50% of the time, as their metabolism is so high that it simply burns it off before it can totally put them to sleep. And considering she won't be able to eat anything before 5 am, she will probably burn through it quite fast. Once she is groggy enough, they will wrap her up in a papoose, so she can't move, then freeze her and pull out the two teeth. (yikes I'm getting dizzy just thinking of it). The hope is that she won't remember a thing in a few days, like she had amnesia. That would be great, because if she doesn't forget, I don't want to have to be the parent who has to bring her back to the dentist for a regular check up...

I finally did another page, it's been ages! Here it is, I used the photos from the weekend of the girls in the leaves:


I hope I can sleep tonight! I'll report on the procedure tomorrow... stay tuned!

Teeth and Tired

I went to the dentist yesterday with Gillian. You may be thinking to yourself that she is too young to be seeing a dentist at 14 months, but I had a suspicion that things weren't right in her mouth. She got her teeth in all the wrong order after the first two bottom teeth pushed through at 7 months. After the first two bottom the top two front teeth are supposed to come, but in Gillian's case her eye teeth pushed through (or what I think are her eye teeth). Next came the molars (which usually come at a year), and then came the front teeth, the bottom eye teeth and her canines - yes all at the same time! while the rest of her teeth continued to grow, her two front teeth pushed through the skin and then basically stopped growing for a couple of months, and that is where the worrying started. Then my friend came over for dinner with her son and she mentioned that he would probably have to have his Frenulum on his upper lip snipped, because it was extending too far down and would eventually cause him to have a gap in his front teeth. So it made me thing about Gillian and her problems and decided to call the dentist the next day.


I went and it wasn't great news. The frenum is a problem, but it's not what is causing her front teeth not to grow. Not only are they not growing, when you pull her gums back you can see two teeth way up in her gums starting to push through, defintely not in the right place. He thought that perhaps there is some serious crowding going on, she has a bad over bite (not sure how he saw that...) and that her two bottom teeth are resting directly on the top teeth, further preventing them from advancing. He is going to give me a referal to a pediatric ortho. for a consultation, but basically said that there isn't much that can be done at this stage, because she is so young. But I look forward to what the pediatric ortho will say... so stay tuned!

Despite her teeth, she is still beautiful to me!!

Other than that craziness, an aquantance of Eric's passed away a couple of days ago. He was in a car crash around the same time that Gillian was born (He made the unfortunate choice to drive home drunk and drove off the road), which left him in a semi-comatose state, and after 15 months of fighting, I guess he lost the fight. I only met him a couple of times, but its really is a sad story and I feel for his parents.

So needless to say this week has left us very tired and so we are looking forward to a nice weekend, a fire in our outdoor fire pit, and good quality family time! Hope you all have that too!