Its Cookie Time

In case you didnt know we are girl scouts
and its Cookie selling time!
So if you feel like helping out a girl scout and
ordering some delicious girl scout cookies
you can email us
snojoes@netzero.net
we can then take your order over email
or call you if you send us your number!

They are 3.50 a box,
there are samoas(w/real coconut), tagalongs, dosidos,
trefoils, lemon chalet cremes, thin mints, dulce de leches
and Thank U Berry Munches (with real cranberries).
Let us know if you would like some, what kind/how many.
They will be delivered the first week of March.
We can take orders up until January 31st.

Frenulectemy

So Wednesday Abbi had her dentist appointment, first was putting sealants on her six year molars that just came in. They put in this plastic piece that separates the teeth that the dental assistant is working on from the rest of the mouth and it also sucks out and fluids in there, and by doing both of these things it keeps the teeth that she is working on dry. Abbi starting gagging and choking during this procedure, it was not looking good, I had to tell her to squeeze my hand just to put sealants on.

So when the sealants were done and they took us back into the room where procedures were done. The dentists got my attention and let me know how concerned that he was about doing this procedure with Abbi. With how she reacted with just sealants being put on her teeth, he was worried about how she would react with being number and getting her frenulum cut out. That once the procedure was started he Had to finish, there was no turning back. I know that Abbi would need to have this done if we wanted her to have more room in her mouth for her grown up teeth, so I told him to go ahead and start the numbing and see how that goes. So he first numbs her and she squeezes my hand for that, no complaining, crying gagging, nothing!

She thinks its all pretty funny, feeling her lip, she starts giggling, Its big and puffy and feels really funny!! I was holding Jesse at the time and she grabbed his hand, "Jesse feel my lip... it feels R e a l l y funny!" The dentist came in to do the procedure and starts explaining to me what had to be done. I thought that just the extra piece of skin between her two top front teeth had to be cut out, but that was not the case, the frenulum, which includes the ligament that connects the lip to the gums needed to be cut out along with the spot on the inside of the mouth where it connects to the mouth and the piece in her gums all had to be cut out.

The dentist advised me not to look. I was holding Abbi's hand the whole time, and glanced over at Abbi a couple times, I so should not have done that. It made me sick to my stomach, the blood the knife to my daughter. I was ready to lose my lunch. I held it in, when the dentist was finished stitching her up he asked if I was all right, "no!". He pulled a chair under me, it calmed my stomach but thinking of Abbi like that still makes me uneasy.

Abbi definitely did not feel a thing, she didn't flinch just watched her movie while the procedure was being done, she was better at having this procedure done then have sealants on her teeth and amazingly better than Alona was. I remembered to give her pain medicine when we got home and she was fine, she enjoyed going and getting her soft foods that night, who wouldn't love ice cream, jello, applesauce, pudding and soup. She hasn't only had slight complaints about pain in the past few days and goes back in on Wednesday just for the dentist to see how she is healing.

clipping and pulling

Alona has a small mouth for the size of grown up teeth that she has coming in. So much so that she had all four of her canines pulled to help her other teeth have room. Her grown up canines are suppose to come in when she is about twelve so she has a little more than two years of extra space and then she will need braces. Taking her in to get her teeth pulled was awful, two people had to hold her down while the dentist numbed, her just to numb her and then with all the wiggling that she was doing she ended up bleeding all over. Pulling teeth wasn't any better, I held down her arms and legs while the dental assistant held her head still and the dentist pulled out the teeth.

Now today in about thirty minutes, Abbi has an appointment at the dentist. And every time that it gets brought up that she has an appointment she screams "Nooo"! She has a little extra piece of skin between her top two front teeth, they call it a frenulum. And if it gets clipped then it will give her more room for her grown up top front teeth to come in. So when we take her in they are going to put sealants on her 6 year molars that have come in and clip her frenulum, I am scared for her too and wish that she didnt have to have this done. She also exclaims that she doesnt want to be clipped every time that I mention the dentist. I dont remember having anything done to my mouth like my girls have had the past month when I was little.

Court

I am deathly afraid of Thursday. Thursday will be the first day that I will ever have, oh wait strike that it wont be the first time that I have ever been to court. But the other times that I was in court I was a juvenile and they were hearings to either terminate my mothers rights or to see where we would be placed.

But this Thursday I have a court hearing for a traffic ticket. When I got pulled over at the beginning of December, I was pulling out from a Maverik, the road where I was turning on to the on coming traffic was coming from around a bend in the road and where I was looking at them from was a hotel sign, a parked car and trees. But as the cop also saw I had a phone up to my ear. I didnt see any cars coming pulling out from maverik, which also happened to be about 150 yards from the traffic light. I pulled in to the road and went in to the turning lane, and automatically saw flashing lights. I panicked, I am deathly afraid of cops, I think I was more afraid of the cop at my window that night than I am of court on Thursday only because I didnt have to say a single word to the cop, just nod my head say uh-humm and hand him paper work from my vehicle, registration, drivers license, etc. I pulled in to the far right lane (which was also a turning lane) from the turning lane when the cop pulled me over, panic had taken over and I wasn't thinking logically. Police officers literally scare me to death, I was just thinking that I needed to pull over.

When I was three my parents had a drug bust happen on our home. I was behind the front door at least from what I remember. They broke open the door, tore apart our home and took our parents away, my sister says it was just my dad that was taken away that night. My memories must be a little shady being that I was three years old. But the impression was left and they leave me shutting down when I get near them.

So when I was pulled over that night, he gave me a ticket for careless driving, he said that I pulled out right in front of him, he had to slam on his breaks and he saw that I was distracted from being on the phone and then I pulled in to a wrong place on the road . So he called me a careless driver(this is actually what the ticket is called is careless driving), told me if I dont know how to drive then I shouldn't be driving. I guess he didnt figure that maybe the reason some one might pull off into a turning lane is because she is traumatized by police. And maybe just maybe, she wasn't careless by being on the phone, but that it was dark, there things obstructing my view like hotel signs and trees and he was coming around a bend in the road.

But I decided that I would fight the ticket, and so I went and took pictures at where I would have been looking at when I was checking for on coming traffic. I don't know if the judge will intimidate me like police officers do, I hope not and I hope that I will do all right with speaking in court whether or not I end up having to pay the $310 fine.