{"id":410,"date":"2014-10-14T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/14\/gj-speech-illness-dentist-climbing-fences"},"modified":"2014-10-14T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T15:49:00","slug":"gj-speech-illness-dentist-climbing-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2014\/10\/14\/gj-speech-illness-dentist-climbing-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"GJ, Speech, Illness, Dentist, Climbing, Fences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pictures with titles don’t really keep a good record of the Mason home.\u00a0 Let me take a few minutes to give a real update on the last few weeks. \u00a0 <\/p>\n

Last weekend I schlepped the boys off to Grand Junction for a short visit.\u00a0 No reason really.\u00a0 Just wanted to say hi.\u00a0 Jack had been asking about visiting and the weather couldn’t get any better for traveling.\u00a0 We played, ate lots of pizza, and endured a blackout.\u00a0 It was “special rules” galore, to use Jack’s phrase.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Below is how you track a toddler in a black out.<\/p>\n

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Saturday I had the pleasure of being a speech judge for Amanda’s home meet.\u00a0 This was my second time and it’s still a little nerve wracking.\u00a0 There’s a lot to keep track of: the times, the codes, the comments, and rules you only learned 10 minutes prior to starting.\u00a0 But I have a really fun time at it.\u00a0 I like to leave thorough and precise compliments and critiques, leaving my hand quite cramped at the end of each round from all the lightening speed writing.\u00a0 My nurse-note-taking skills have faded.\u00a0 Days go by without me hand-writing anything as a stay at home mom.\u00a0 Kind of strange to realize that. Anyway, Mavi kindly joined me as a judge, so I had pleasant company on the drive.\u00a0 My folks also came up to help Amanda, and we all shared an early birthday cake when the meet was over.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Sunday I had a relatively mild case of food poisoning (I think the source was from something at home).\u00a0 We had to abandon our Primary class so Ben could take care of the boys while I convalesced.\u00a0 Bathroom trips aside, it was a relaxing day for me.\u00a0 I spent a lot of time lying down and reading.\u00a0 I’ve been re-reading The Name of the Wind and got through nearly half of it in one day.\u00a0 Such a good book.\u00a0 Another positive note, this illness marks a week without anyone being sick.\u00a0 Woohoo!<\/p>\n

By Monday I felt completely better and took Jack to the dentist.\u00a0 Sadly, his teeth two front teeth have decided they are done with this world and are slowly dying.\u00a0 Dr. Strange (yes, his dentist is named Dr. Strange<\/a>) said this is common, that after trauma<\/a> to a tooth<\/a> it will seem fine for years, then suddenly the nerve decides to die. \u00a0 There’s inflammation now and a little bit of abscess forming.\u00a0 We get to watch and take him back in for removal when it gets worse.\u00a0 The dentist said they would “just wiggle it out.”\u00a0 I thought maybe that was a special thing they can do with baby teeth, but internet searching only results in that phrase as a euphemism for yanking the sucker out the good old-fashioned way.\u00a0 It’s actually both front teeth that are bad on x-ray, though the chipped one is worse.\u00a0 However, last night Jack fell out of bed while trying to get down to go to the bathroom.\u00a0 Big crash, lots of tears, no major injuries.\u00a0 Then this morning at breakfast he complained his tooth (the non-chipped one) hurt from falling.\u00a0 Uh oh.<\/p>\n

Sam continues to climb whatever he can.\u00a0 I’m extra worried about chipping teeth with him now.\u00a0 It’s inevitable and unavoidable, right?\u00a0 I mean, I spend about a third of his waking hours feeding\/changing\/dressing him, a third playing, and a third chasing him down from high places.\u00a0 HA! I just took this photo while typing that sentence:<\/p>\n

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Here’s a sample of other times he was caught in the act.
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The gym<\/a> has become a regular part<\/a> of our life.\u00a0 I exercise there 3-4 times a week.\u00a0 The kids love playing there, in fact Jack often asks if we can go!\u00a0 Since buying the membership I’ve lost 12 pounds, bringing me below my pre-Sam pregnancy weight.\u00a0 I love having strength and energy again.\u00a0 My back aches are less frequent too.\u00a0 My goal is to get to my pre-Jack pregnancy weight, but honestly, if I can keep steady through the holiday indulgences that would be good enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today our backyard is beginning it’s transformation.\u00a0 After installing a stair railing, then painting the house, we decided our next big improvement would be the backyard.\u00a0 We have a wonderful side yard with lush grass under an ash tree – perfect for climbing.\u00a0 But it’s all outside of the fence.\u00a0 After getting several estimates we settled on Highlands Landscaping to do the job.\u00a0 Not only are we going to amend the fence, we will remove all the useless rock and replace it with mulch.\u00a0 That way we can plant it on our own time\/budget down the road. Here’s some hastily taken “before” pictures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I didn’t realize Marko, the owner, was Russian.\u00a0 I think that’s what he was speaking to his team.\u00a0 He also introduced me to the team leader for fencing, named Dragon.\u00a0 Ben was very happy with that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictures with titles don’t really keep a good record of the Mason home.\u00a0 Let me take a few minutes to give a real update on the last few weeks. \u00a0 Last weekend I schlepped the boys off to Grand Junction for a short visit.\u00a0 No reason really.\u00a0 Just wanted to say hi.\u00a0 Jack had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}