After almost a month and a half of wiggling and pushing and pulling and tugging, Derik's stubborn tooth has finally "left the building." Yesterday afternoon around 1pm, we checked his tooth, and it was so loose that it would get stuck in odd positions. I tried having him eat "Now and Later" candies since it was suggested that we should try it, but as I feared, the boy would eat them with his side teeth. I tried getting a wash cloth and pulling, and it was still a no-go. The tooth was so loose that it was ready to come out. Finally, my sleep deprived brain had a flash of inspiration. Why not try twisting? So that is what we did. I started twisting and turning the tooth in his mouth. I was afraid that he wasn't going to let me do it because he was really worried that it would hurt. In the space of about 30 seconds, the tooth was out! FINALLY! He is definitely going to have to go to the dentist and get braces at some point in the future. His new tooth that is already coming in, is positioned extremely far back in his gums.
After Derik's tooth came out he was so excited, until he saw the blood. With some fast thinking and talking on my end, his hysteria was soon forgotten with the ideas of $$MONEY$$. He was very quickly able to forget that he was bleeding and now focus on the money the tooth fairy was going to bring him. It was so very hard to keep him from playing with his tooth. I just told him that if he lost the tooth, the tooth fairy wouldn't come bring him money. That thought kept him on the straight and narrow.
Shortly after we extracted his tooth, (haha, love the big word? lol) it was time to take Lexie to the doctor. She inherited her daddy's sensitive skin. For the past week or so, we have been fighting a really bad diaper rash. At one point the rash had developed into a yeast infection. I had some left over thrush medicine that I use on her butt to get rid of the yeast. It worked, but before we got the meds on her butt, she had gotten 3 pretty bad sores. So the appointment was to see what can be done to get rid of the sores. The doctors verdict was that, yes, the yeast infection was the problem that caused the sores, but since it was now gone, the sores had now changed to a bacterial infection. She gave me a perscription for both, the thrush medicine, and also ointment to help the sores. I have a couple of errands that I have to run in a little while, so I will be stopping by Walmart on the way out and dropping off the prescriptions.
I also heard back from my financial aid worker about the status of my pell grant. He said that the reason my money is being delayed is because I switched from one school to another. That switch has to have 30 weeks between, so students do not defraud the government. They are still looking into trying to get my money to me faster, but nothing is guaranteed. So on August 24, Derik will start 1st grade at his old school, Paul E. Culley Elementary. We moved out of the school's zone in June, but I don't want him to go to the new school since we are going to be moving out of state soon. I know he needs as much stability as possible and it's going to be hard enough on him to go to another new school in a couple of months, so I would much rather keep the changes to a minimum. His school is about the same distance from our current apartment as it was from our last. It actually doesn't take as long to get there because I can avoid a lot of traffic since I am going a different direction. He is going to be in Ms. Gallegos class, in room 13. This year he has been assigned track 9, which is the 9 month school, not that it really matters since we will be leaving the area in a couple of months.
Derik wasn't the only one with exciting news, Lexie had 2 new breakthroughs. The first one was that she has finally learned how to blow kisses. It was really sweet. As we were leaving to go to the doctor's, I told her to blow daddy kisses, and I showed her by doing it myself. Then I put her hand to her mouth and said again, blow kisses. Then I said blow kisses one more time, trying to encourage her to do it herself. Lo and behold, she did! She put her pudgy little hand up to her mouth and said MUH AHH! It was too cute! Now of course daddy was busy doing something else, so he didn't actually see her do it, but we were able to get her to repeat the gesture, just not the sound. The other cute thing she did, was while we were waiting in the waiting room at the doctor's office, there were several small children there. She kept going up to these little girls and giving them kisses. LOL. The first little girl was so not fond of Lexie's love. LOL. She just cried and cried. The other little girl didn't care. I tried to get pictures of it, but she would do it at odd times, and my battery was almost dead in my phone so I wasn't able to leave my phone on camera so I could wait for that moment. It truly was sweet!
Over the last couple of months, I have noticed that my legs have started swelling considerably. The swelling has usually been in just my feet, but last night I noticed that it has increased up to my knees. I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't have health insurance, so it's not like I can just go to the doctor to see what's wrong. There is a very good chance that many many tests will need to be ran to figure out why my feet and legs are swelling. I'm afraid that I'm loosing the circulation in my legs, because my feet will be ice cold quite often. I really hope it's not my heart that is having issues. I think if the swelling is as bad tomorrow as it was last night, I will probably have to go to the UMC (urgent medical center) and have them check me out. It's just not normal to have feet and legs the size of a watermellon. It's not normal to walk and feel the fluid sloshing around in my feet. It's not normal to have indentations in my feet just from having them crossed.
Well, I guess my time is up. The kids have been very impatient waiting for me to finish typing. They just do not understand, that by not bugging me while I am working, I can actually get things done a lot faster, then if I have stop every 30 seconds and referee a fight between them, or answer questions that have been answered 300,000,000 times, or whatever else they are doing instead of listening...
toodles!
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