In the Teens!

Rylee is officially a teenager now! She turned 13 February 8. To celebrate, I took Rylee to the Shangri la hotel to spend the night. Chris, and our new good friend Lindsay, joined us for dinner at Shangri la's wonderful seafood buffet. Rylee's actual birthday was during Outdoor Ed, so we celebrated early, since Rylee would be gone. After spending the night at the hotel, Rylee and I came home on Saturday and Rylee planned our day. We cooked, opened gifts and played cards. I think Rylee had a great day!

Laying out at Shangri la's beautiful pool :)
Lobster dinner!
Rylee had Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough frosted Brownies for dessert.

Jomar's Excitement

After Jomar's experience so far at the dentist, I expected him to be completely terrified about going back to the dentist. His last visit was to have a tooth pulled that had caused a horrible infection in his mouth. Well, unfortunately, he still needs a lot of work and needs to go back to the dentist a few more time because he has so many cavities.

So this Tuesday, I picked up him and Pauline to go to the dentist. Jomar's first words to me were, "Tita Carol! Tita Carol! Thank you!" I said, "You're welcome Jomar, do you know we are going to the dentist today?" He said, "YES!"

We arrived at the dentist and Pauline went first. At this point, I still wasn't sure if Jomar understood he had more work to be done, and the work was filling cavities. Pauline was scared and didn't let Dr. Diane do much, but we began with cleaning and Pauline will need to go back quite a few more times to get use to being there to let Dr. Diane work on her. She has many cavities and a broken off tooth that needs to be pulled.

After Pauline was finished, we had to go back to the waiting room before Jomar could go. I was talking to Pauline and after what seemed like 2 minutes, Jomar was not with me. I went back to the dental chair room and asked Dr. Diane, "Did Jomar come back here?" She said, "Yes, he is in the dental chair already. He's excited!" We were both surprised!

As you can see, Jomar is in the chair, happy and holding Dr. Diane's mirror so he can watch everything she does to clean his mouth, drill a cavity and fill it. What a precious boy he is!


Since Pauline was so scared, Dr. Diane let Pauline watch Jomar's cavity filling and explained to her everything she was doing. We are hoping Pauline will let work be done in her mouth this coming week as both Jomar and Pauline go back to the dentist.
Pauline helped hold Dr. Diane's tools as they worked. :)