Morning folks! Lyzzie is feeling much better today, especially because the tooth fairy left her $10.00! Apparently pulled teeth are worth a lot more than ones that fall out on their own.

I'm going to TDS today to exchange her too-big shirt, and she gave me the $10 plus her Christmas money to get her a gift card for the trip. That's my girl! She admitted that although the novocaine shots hurt really bad, they helped a lot and the actual extractions felt like almost nothing. I just find that so hard to believe! She said it was worse when Grammy yanked out Lyzzie's loose tooth!

She was just so scared, she had built it up in her head that it was going to feel awful and that's why she cried so hard.
Emma fell asleep in the car on the way home yesterday, and I almost got her into her bed but then she woke up and threw the biggest fit I've EVER seen! She was screaming and choking herself and thrashing her body about and slapping and kicking me for a full 20 minutes. Her little face broke out in a red puffy rash from all the yelling. I finally got her calmed down and let her sleep in my bed - the poor thing just isn't feeling better yet. My mom wanted to take her back to the dr. today, but I just had her there last weekend and she's still on the antibiotics, and there's not much more they can do anyway. I'd be afraid the insurance wouldn't cover a 2nd visit so soon for the same thing.
I hope the extractions help and her gap closes quicker than planned.
The teeth were baby teeth that were pulled because they were badly abscessed. They need to actually keep the gap open so the permanent teeth can come in, but that's still a couple years down the road. So she's just going to have this big hole on one side until she's 11 or 12!

Good for you for standing up to your mom! Sometimes I think family members get so comfortable with each other that they just don't stop and listen to themselves and put themselves in the other person's shoes. I hope she remembers for more than a week!
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I was about to ask you to pm it, but then I saw you reposted. I think you look great!! Oh NOOO.. I hope your friend finds her camera. When my memory card failed I was SO upset, I cried at work all day. I would be so p.o'ed if I lost my camera.
Amber: I'm so sorry about Mike's job. I have to agree with the others though, that this is probably a blessing in disguise. I know the timing is horrible and it's got to be very scary. I hope he finds something quickly, even if it's just something in the meantime for some income while he looks for the "right" job. I'm sure something even better will come along, without all the ridiculous demands!
Ugh!! My &*@**$# DH..... I put ANOTHER spreadsheet together last night and all that work to show him we'd probably save money by not using
DDP, and he decides that he wants it!! Well, at least we'll eat good!
Good thing you liked working on the spreadsheet! I personally think that if the margin of savings is that small, sometimes it's better to just get the DDP for the convenience - that alone can be worth a ton. I love how it gives you the "all-inclusive" feel. For our little family it doesn't make sense to get it, since we have AP's and eat so little, but when it's
free dining we go hog wild! When we don't use DDP we eat CS only, so for us the DDP includes not only more food, but experiences that we otherwise wouldn't have. You just
can't put that kind of thing on a spreadsheet.
Lesa: That's GREAT news about Maddie! It's about flippin' time. You'll have to keep us posted on how it goes.
I think if Emma feels better this weekend I just may have to take them to see Alvin & the Chipmunks. Lyzzie runs around doing the "bow chicka bow-bowmmmm" with the hip swivel and everything and it cracks me up - she was doing it in Target the other day. She found this voice changer and recorded herself saying it, then sped it up to sound like a chipmunk. It was so funny!