Category: Chloe (Page 6 of 20)

Chloe and Josiah are loving being able to play together for hours on end.  We had a snow day (well actually a COLD day) last week and they played and played with their stuffed animals.  I just love hearing their little dialogue and character voices.  It makes me smile.

I don’t like the dentist.

Don’t worry–it’s not personal.  I don’t like ANY dentists.

I have very soft teeth and no matter how many times I brush and floss regularly, I have always had something that needed to be done with my teeth–fillings, root canals, more fillings, crowns, and more fillings.  So, I have a great dislike of the dentist.  Add that to our predicament of being self-employed and not having dental insurance = expensive trips to the dentist.

However, I realized that my own feelings about the dentist (and cost!) have been deterring me from taking Chloe and Josiah to the dentist.  So, I finally bit the bullet and took them this morning.  I’m so proud of me. 🙂

And I’m so proud of them–they both were just wonderful.  I know Chloe was quite nervous this morning and even when we arrived.  But the dental hygienist was very patient and explained everything to her wonderfully and soon she was having a great time.    Josiah was a bit resistant about the whole dentist thing, but after he watched Chloe on the chair wearing the cool sunglasses and getting special bubble gum stuff in her mouth, he was totally on board for his turn.

And for those interested, Chloe has two discolored spots on her bottom front teeth–turns out it’s just a “birthmark.”  They think it happens when the tooth is developing and she might have a fever at the same time that simply changes the color of the tooth.  There’s nothing we can do about it–but it also doesn’t affect the tooth at all.  It’s not weaker or anything, simply a funny color.

Josiah got a marble run for Christmas and both kids just LOVE it. They will set it up (or more accurately one of the adults will set it up) and they will play with it for hours.  It’s really fun.  Plus it’s strangely addicting to me–trying to figure out a new way to make the marbles end up in a different place but still work… it’s all good fun.  Chloe can set it up and get the marbles to go through all the different routes she’s created, but Josiah is a little young to set it up by himself yet.  But I think it’s a great toy to work on “engineering” and thinking outside the box.   We’re all having fun with it!

I know Tim has already posted this picture on Facebook, but I wanted to re-post it here in case any of you missed it.  I just love this picture.  This is the moment that it really dawned on the kids that we were ACTUALLY having a baby.