It's not even that I have anything to say, but this came up when I was aiming for something else in my browser history and here I am. You know a whole day of wasted time starts with just one click of the mouse.
Anyway the sun has come back out and paradise has returned to normal. i will miss this weather when we move pretty much anywhere else.
Today is day 2 of Joey walking around with a tooth hanging on by a fraction of a root. It's been hanging and yesterday it was bleeding, but today it just hangs. He's refusing to eat, let us pull it out for him and been wiggling it since dinnertime yesterday. I used to think the thought of tying a string to a tooth and shutting a door was inhumane. NOW I get it and think that'd be the most humane way to end this nonsense. He wiggles it, but he's not really WIGGLING it, more a ever-so-slight movement which he clings to it for dear life with both hands.
We took S + J to the dentist last week. I realize I hadn't been good about getting their routine care done, so called up and got all 4 of them apointments. And the Dental assistant there was explaining to me how Sonia's older which is why she used the adult flouride on her teeth.
Of course I had to bite my tongue about saying the obvious "uh, they're twins which makes them the same age" Sonia still has a good 1 1/2 inches in height on him and has lost 7 teeth to Joey's 4, so I guess by looking at them she made some assumptions.
Other than that.. my recent quest has been to eliminate any urine smell from the house. Because after renting 'cat pee house' nothing gets my skin ablaze like the smell of urine on carpet. Especially our brand new carpet.
And I have 2 culprits. JM who has kept me in potty training purgatory for months now has had more than his share of accidents and the dog who I suspect was responsible for alot of it.
So.. I had (that would be past tense) that blacklight flashlight that came with the magic potion that was supposed to eliminate it from the last house. While the goo did nothing, the light worked well. And since we've moved I couldn't find it. I took every closet apart, offered a monetary and/or candy reward... nothing. I'd resorted to the crawl-on-the-ground-and-sniff method which was a. gross and b. ineffective so I went to home depot and decided to go buy another one.
I couldn't find it so I went to the 'head trainer' and asked her. She looks at me weird as I explained they used to sell a box with a blacklight flash light and urine remover and wondered if she could find it for me. She says 'well, I've been here 2 year and we've never sold something like that' and I still insitst, yes, it was less than 2 years ago and yes, it came from here. So she asked over their walkie talkies if anyone knows of what I was talking about. And a guy in paint does. I think he watched alot of CSI or Macguver. Maybe both. He brings me to elecrical to get the light bulb, then to lights to get the light fixture and when he's done I have the best. dang. urine stain finder in the world. It's not battery operated, but it worked really well.
And the "nature's miracle" stuff really did make the stuff disappear as you spayed it on the stain on brown rugs. Not so great on blue rugs.
But the smell is gone. And that makes me happy.
And the dog is one accident away from finding a new home.
And JM, well... I wonder if there's much hope for that boy.
EDITED TO ADD:
the tooth is out.
It fell out when he and JM were wrestling about an inflatable beach ball and who it belonged to.
Yes. that happens alot. Not the tooth part. The wrestling part. Someone tells me that's normal for boys. If it's not someone needs to let me know.
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