Monday, September 1, 2008

Dirt Bikes, School, Colds and Teeth


Eric & Jordan ganged up and won the dirt bike battle. Doesn't he look cool!?! He hasn't ventured out of the garage yet. (shrug) Maybe we should get more insurance?


J also started school this week and he loves his new teacher, two good years in a row, can't beat that. Funny story, on Wednesday when he got home I asked if he had any homework, he said that he only had his spelling words to study for Friday's spelling test. I said to get them out and we'll practice them together. He said that he didn't need to practice because 'he's a great speller and it would only waste his time to study spelling'. I said that he should probably study them...just in case. After a brief argument on how it's important to do his homework, he kept insisting that he knows it all and studying would just be a waste of his precious time. So I thought I'd pull one over on him and I said that we would go over them once and if he didn't make one mistake then he wouldn't ever have to study spelling words again (I had this one in the bag, they were hard spelling words). He smirked and happily agreed to the deal. We went over 26 very tricky words and to my amazement he sailed right through them, no mistakes, not even a hesitation. Those darn tweens, just as promised I put away his spelling for the week. On Friday he came home with smiles from ear to ear test in hand, the big 100% right on top! Good job J!

Well we've been battling a little cold this week. Carter started throwing up and having the yuckies on Wednesday, the next day he woke up with a stuffy nose and fever. We took him in to the doctors and he only had a viral infection. Its really hard because most of these symptoms are signs of a shunt infection, so we were put on major shunt malfunction watch for the last few days. Luckily we woke up today and had a great day. We are definitely getting better. YEAH no hospital stay this time!

So the oddest thing, Carter has 4 teeth now, two bottom and two vampire (eye) teeth, anyone ever heard of that?!? I thought they get those two top teeth next. He also learned how to grind those pearly whites! I've seen Eric heeby-geeby every time Carter gets his mouth's orchestra going, it's pretty nasty but it makes me giggle.

2 comments:

The Blauser's said...

Four teeth! That is so weird that the front two (top) teeth didn't come first. Carter does the grind and Jaxxon does the flick on the tooth with his finger nails...makes me cringe! :) Tell J I want to see a picture of his helmet...got to make sure and keep that noggen protected. Give Carter Bug a big kiss for me...love ya!

Angie said...

The boys are getting so big! Payton got his bottom two and then the vampire teeth on top too. I thought it was weird but the dentist said it was normal. See ya soon!