Keaton goes to the hospital

It's hard to see your child in a hospital bed, I don't care if it was just to get some teeth removed and a couple of cavities filled, It just isn't the sight you want to see. Keaton as some teeth problems even at this early age.  He was grinding his front teeth down to nothing, and the dentist said he wanted to take them out before they caused him problems.  Also his back teeth are so tightly packed together that he had developed cavities in between a couple of his back teeth because we weren't flossing.  I thought I was doing good at just making sure they brushed good.  I didn't floss my other kids teeth when they were this age. None of them have had any cavities!  So because of his age and what they had to do, he had to be put in the hospital and be put to sleep so they could work on his teeth.  He was able to bring his giraffe and blanket for comfort, and they gave him some nice hospital pj's.

After a long time of waiting and many nurses later, they put him in a big red wagon and took him into surgery.  I wasn't to much of a wreck. After all it was just dental work.  I couldn't help but feel it was all my fault though.  I must say we are ALL avid flossers now!

I met with the Doctor who performed the surgery and he said everything went fine and gave me his two front teeth in a little plastic cup.  The tooth fairy will do double duty for these teeth!  They brought him back to his room and layed him in this bed to rest and to wake up from the anethesia.  He did not want to wake up. His mouth was sore for a couple of days after and he said it felt weird to not have his front teeth.  He said "How am I going to eat apples now?"  I told him as soon as his grown up teeth grew in he'd have no trouble eating apples. As I said before I don't like seeing my children in hospital beds, and I hope the next time I do it will be to visit Amber after she's had her first baby!

On to other things.  This summer we've decided that our pond wasn't big enough.  So we had Bobby come out again and dig some more.  We had to drain the pond about 4 feet so he could dig another big section, and we wanted him to leave an island in the middle.  The little part with the grass will be that island when the water level returns to normal.  I wanted a little place for the geese and ducks to nest and be safe from the dogs!  We had geese last spring but the dogs kept chasing them off. It was making me mad.  I love geese and ducks on our pond.  We also discovered that we have about a thousand gold fish in it as well.  Last fall a friend of ours had about 5 gold fish that were in his mothers little pond and they wanted to get rid of them, so he asked if we wanted them.  Apparently they have the right conditions for spawning because we have lots of them now!  Guess it's time for the bass to go in.  Hope they like to eat gold fish. 

This is Bobby and his big machine, tapering the edges.  It's amazing how he works that shovel.  It's so smooth it looks alive.  So lots of stuff going on at our house, with the landscaping.  Lots more to do as well.  But it's fun to see things take shape and look nicer as each project gets done.