Cornelius Chronicles

This week Loyd had his0 first dental check up. He did great. He was full of all sorts of funny questions and saying for the hygienist and the dentist. When it was his turn to get into the examining chair he asked the hygienist if he needed to take his shoes off. She got a good chuckle out of that. Then as she was cleaning his teeth she asked him to, "Close." So, he squeezed his eyes shut real tight and left his mouth wide open. That got a bigger laugh. Then the best laugh came near the end. She was cleaning his teeth with the scraping pick. After a couple of teeth he asked, "Why are you drawing on my teeth?" She thought that was really funny and said no one had ever asked that before. He was as good as gold for the rest of the visit and came away with a clean bill of healthy teeth. No cavities. :) I'm glad he was so good and had a positive experience. You know that Bekah LOVES school. Well, I had to pick her up early to go to the dentist a...

It's hurricane season and we have been vigilant in storm tracking and keeping our emergency food and water supplies up to date. Apparently this has rubbed off on the kids. I'm glad to know that their little play house is now well stocked with clean drinking water should an emergency arise. :) This week we went to Space Center to get out of the heat and to play with friends. They boys missed Bekah, but they had fun palling around together with just the boys. They made a good duo to play trampoline basketball and the wall climbing tag game. They are such good brothers. We also enjoyed a small ray of sunshine this week. Loyd is particularly partial to a certain kind of ribbon on his beloved boop rags. It is a silky texture with bright multi-colored stars all over it. Those boop rags which have this special "stars" ribbon maintain a higher status of love and use those those without. It has been 5 years since I was last able to find this highly prized ...