A "Model" Patient!

Here's her new smile! Karleigh did so great today, the dentist called her a "star patient". I was very proud of the little peanut. She has some spatial issues, loves to cuddle but doesn't like to be held down at all and can get a little claustrophobic at times. You never would have known it today! We gave her some Motrin about an hour before the appointment, as suggested. We got there and she colored for a while and we went back to "the dolphin room" - which is conveniently located back away from the cleaning stations. Her only request was a pair of sunglasses to wear during everything. She picked raspberry for her smell of the nitrous but man they had a bunch of different options from peanut butter, to chocolate, marshmallow, grape, watermelon and more. Then they numbed her up with a gel, I'm assuming much like Ora-gel and then she got the Novocaine. She did so, so great. Never complained about the pressure and there was no pain at all. They used a little thing to push the gum away from around her tooth a couple of times and then basically used a pair of pliers to wiggle, wiggle, wiggle it out. It slipped out with what looked like a huge, long root on the end. Karleigh was quite proud of herself. It didn't bleed as much as I expected since mouths usually bleed quite a bit. She got a cute little pink tooth fairy box (I'll take a picture of that tomorrow since she asked the tooth fairy if she could keep the tooth) a popsicle - actually two - one for her, one for Rylan and a couple of tokens for the prize machine. She's such a little creature of habit and got herself another ring and a super bouncy ball for Rylan. I love how she ALWAYS thinks of him and shares with him even when he's not standing right there, he was in the van with Jim, watching a movie. Jim picked up a few soft snacks and Horton Hears a Who... though Karleigh said she thought Horton looked more like a Larry... and we came home.



When we got home we were greeted by a laptop that wouldn't power up at all which made me less than happy, to say the least. This really isn't the most convenient time of year for me to be without my computer and photo editing programs and I could go on and on about that but I won't. Though I pride myself in giving great customer service... I'm not always the best customer. Jim, however, is generally a great, calm, mellow customer so he got to handle it and I stayed home. He managed to get us a loaner laptop (since ours won't be back until the 27th at the earliest) and an external hard drive which has every little bit of data that I had on my dead laptop. It took a few hours but he done good!



While Jim was gone, Rylan and I snuck outside and took a picture of the moon since he was so impressed with it coming up over the barn tonight. Just thought I'd share... looks cold doesn't it!?! The kids are keeping their fingers crossed for snow this weekend - we'll see. We're at the right elevation for what the forecast is predicting so far so time will tell!