Tic-Tac-Toe

Couldn't resist this one! Maddie and Ellie sat down to play Tic-Tac-Toe and for the first several rounds, Ellie beat the pants off Maddie! Finally Maddie regained her confidence and pulled ahead to show Ellie who the big sister was!

Holidays

Ah-h-h-h, my computer is back! Well, the internet is still not working on it, but I have all my pictures which can be saved on the flash drive and plugged in elsewhere to post them. Either way, I'm excited to have it back!

So...since I missed Halloween and Thanksgiving--as far as illustrating them here--I thought I would put up the pictures to play catch-up!

HALLOWEEN

I think the picture speaks for itself--poor Harli!

The younger girls--Maddie as a fairy princess, Emily as a prom queen (remember she's only 12!), and Ellie as Giselle (from "Enchanted").

THANKSGIVING

We spent Thanksgiving with a couple of other families here in town and asked our good friend, Karen Christensen to photograph our family since we hadn't had a family portrait in a while. I think it turned out pretty well!

The Krommenhoek Family--Thanksgiving 2008

Karen also thought that while we were at it, we might as well take the following picture too.

Mr. and Mrs. Krommenhoek--Thanksgiving 2008

Coming up in the near future--Christmas with the Krommenhoeks!

Runaway veins

Holly had to have blood drawn for tests this morning. They were fasting tests--except for water of course which she was guzzling in hopes of nice, fat, easy to access veins. I promised her it would require only one needle poke for the list of tests that were ordered.

Alas, I am her mother, the queen of runaway veins. Therefore it was not to be. She ended up getting poked four times by two phlebotomists (2 pokes each). Afterward she lay down with coban on both antecubital spaces and her hand until the color returned to her face.

After a few minutes, her cheeks were pink and she was ready to get her breakfast and go to school. Thanks, Holly for being such a good sport! I'll be careful before making any more promises regarding phlebotomy on my offspring.

Technical Difficulties and teeth

I've been waiting patiently for the technical difficulties to be resolved with our main computer. You know, the one I download all my pictures onto and generally use for all my cyber duties. Alas, it still remains in the shop to figure out why it doesn't like the internet right now. We ruled out connection problems since the other computers in the house run the internet wirelessly off the same modem. They all work! Therefore I am confined to blogging from my pictureless laptop. Never fear! Google images will help illustrate my blog!



Regardless of the state of my computer, however, life continues on and so I must continue on with it.


Our family has issues with lateral incisors. Daniel is missing both of his. His retainer has fake ones that fill in the space and leave room for future implants ($3000 apiece--if it's important to him). Paul and Holly are each missing one lateral incisor and the other is what they call a "peg lateral"

Note the triangular shape to the tooth.

Somehow, Emily escaped the lateral incisor curse, but Maddie supposedly has two "peg laterals" (according to the panoramic x-ray--I haven't gotten a good look at them since they started coming in). The jury is still out on the state of Ellie's lateral incisors.

So, Wednesday we went to the dentist with Ellie and Maddie. They were due for a cleaning, but my ulterior motive for getting them there was that both of Maddie's permanent lateral incisors were in--way back behind the baby lateral incisors that were not even close to being loose enough to come out. Ellie has the same issue with a lower incisor that is sitting (not even loose) in front of the the permanent lower incisors that are completely in.

The night before, at Maddie's request, Paul managed to pull out the one lateral incisor (painfully) that was slightly loose--and it had most of the root on it!

Look how little of the tooth actually sticks up above the gums! The way it's supposed to work is that the root dissolves before coming out--but apparently this is not to be with my two youngest children. The dentist extracted Maddie's other lateral incisor which had the entire root INTACT! I did not make her go back to school after the tooth trauma. Thank goodness for novocaine and nitrous oxide! Ellie's tooth will have to be extracted at a later time--not looking foward to it!