A surprisingly productive day considering most of the family (everyone bar myself, Papacrow and Saurus to date) have been succumbing to a cough and cold, and lots of us - including poor Trojan Hero - spent most of the night coughing and spluttering rather than sleeping. Our bedroom might as well have had a revolving door, quite frankly!
Then Wig left the breakfast table at speed and spent some time throwing up in the toilet, poor poppet. Been swallowing too much snot, we suspect - it's happened before.
So table time was a muted and largely voluntary affair - Roo mostly did research for his roman essay (on food), his diary, and some maths. Saurus did online maths and heaps of english. Wig read lots of stuff on the romans (we have a basket of resources, will blog the book list at a later date), Fluff did his diary, some really good writing in his work book all by himself, and some reading on romans. Petal did LOTS of her work book, several times during the day - she's charging through it! Dot did lots of drawing of people, and we had interesting discussions about noses and numbers of eyes etc. Petal and Dot also had fun with the conte chalk pastel pencils - I showed them how to blend and we had fun mixing colours.
There was lots of lego building, listening to Harry Potter audio CDs, building with duplo & mega blocks, making fishing rods (Petal, Fluff & Dot), we watched the Romans episode of Neil Oliver's Ancient Britain ( a great series that we really loved), and I read more of James & the Giant Peach out loud. Fluff really enjoyed some Beatrix Potter in the evening - The Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle and The Tale of Two Bad Mice. Roo had some playstation in the evening with Papacrow and Saurus joined us to watch a football match (Man U v Madrid in the champions league).
It was sunny but no one was really well enough to go out and about today, so we did a bit of tidying and cuddled up and watched cartoons (Avengers) instead.
Papacrow got a fair bit of editing done, I ploughed my way through The Innocence of Father Brown (am regretting this choice a bit, it's hard going in places) and purchased Neil Gaiman's Coraline, as it was 99p on the kindle today! (It's going to be my reward for making it through Father Brown.)
I also did the washing up after lunch, booked Trojan Hero's six week check for tomorrow, and arranged for Grandma to come and sit in for the afternoon - Papacrow is out plastering, I'm off to the dentist and Saurus will need to come with me to hold Trojan Hero!
Will be glad when tomorrow's over and done to be honest.
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As it's tomorrow, then it is dentist day? Thinking of you!! Hoping all is going smoothly for you — and for Saurus and the Trojan Hero too!
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I survived dentist day!
I accepted anaesthetic this time so am still recovering. she found a couple more problems while in there as it were, so had three fillings and the replacement of the one she'd already done but it'd dropped out.
Two more appointments in April *sigh*
Still, I'm very grateful it's all paid for in my case!
Glad to hear you survived. Two more in April though! Well, better to have it all fixed but goodness gracious you're going through it with your teeth. What a blessing that it's not costing you anything - that would be a pretty might bill!
TBH Honey, the fact it is free is the only thing that's keeping me coming back, especially as it all hurts more after she's done anything!
I just feel it would be a waste and ungrateful not to take advantage of it *sigh*
*laughing* Oh yes, to have to pay lots of money to be in such pain afterward...well. That rarely feels cheerful.
It's one of those things, though - if left to go until they *really* caused a problem, well. That would doubtlessly be worse.
well, you know, I sometimes wonder. they never hurt until the dentist *says* they need work and start poking around...
*laughing*
Yes, I understand that suspicion well! Sometimes a tooth will hurt and nothing comes of it, and other times teeth that seem totally fine are apparently not....
Teeth hurt coming in, and they remain pretty durn bothersome the whole way through! Lucky sharks.
yes, I do rather think our teeth are a bit of a design flaw.
Endlessly replacing cartalidge like sharks have, or even just roughed patches of skin and gum like tortoises would be better, though I realise that would mean a diet change...
Human beings are astoundingly complex.
And, it's arguably possible that we got to this advanced state because of what all we were able to eat and gain nourishment from.
That makes me wonder what made this design so desirable - at some point teeth like this were an advantageous adaptation, after all!
Well I think it's because we developed a mix of types of teeth for our omnivorous diet- crushing molars, good for grinding high fiber stuff, and slicing canines, good for cutting meat off the bone - and maybe this calcified tissue was the best medium for this variety?
Well, that all sounds good and right to me.
Oh well. I guess we're stuck with dentists. The best most other species hope for us helper species and I don't know if I want little critters hanging out in my mouth to clean my teeth. On the other hand, if they were bacteria-size i wouldn't mind at all!!
well there's a lot of development in the area of nano technology!
Nanotechnology is pretty amazing, especially when it comes to medicine. I don't know that I'm ready for little mouth-dwelling nanobots though! I feel a little squicky about that.
if they were microscopic I could probably live with it... seeing as how there's already billions of microscopic organisms - bacterium and the like - that live on and in me, and I just don't think about it!
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