Dentist again

We had a lot work to do on Jenny's teeth. Poor thing! She had already had two teeth taken out at last dental visit. She got two more taken out. I think she is quite worried. "How am I going to eat with holes from both sides" - that was her first question after the work was done.
I have to follow the dentist's direction. Dr. Thomas Bouwen is a pediatric dentist. In his opinion, these two baby molars are so bad that they can't be repaired. It is better to take them out now and put a spacer in place so her adult molars will have room to come in normally. She still have one more big tooth on each side so she should have no problem eating. These teeth have been bothering her. She was afraid to eat anything hard, even not apples!

Jenny is a little brave girl. She did not make a sound with her dental work. We had to visit a lab to take her blood for her blood work before the dentist appointment. She did not make any trouble on that either. Her doctor ordered so many blood tests that we were worried if they were taking too much blood out of her! She is a trooper!

Anna, on the other hand, was so afraid about these things. She nearly cried when the nurse put the needle on Jenny's arm to take her blood out. Anna had a simple cleaning of her teeth today. She was asking more questions and more worried about her procedure. In the end, she was happy because these people were so good with children!

I tried to take some photos, but my camera was not working. By the time I figured out what was wrong with the camera, Jenny already finished hers....She did not look too happy then.


Jenny just finished her dental work - poor baby!



Anna is ready for her dental cleaning.



Can't you tell Jenny is suffering? Hope she feel better soon.

School Concerts and Lunar Eclipse

Yesterday was one of these days that runs from 6 am to 10 pm non-stop. It was first day of school after two days of snow days and a weekend! We quickly squeezed in a dinner before we headed out to Holland Christian High School for Toby's and Joshua's school concert. It was one of the events that we love very much. Both Toby and Joshua showed their talent in music. They both were drum players in school bands before. Since last year, Toby had picked up Bass Clarinet and Joshua recently picked up Saxophone. In yesterday's concert, Toby even played a solo - way to go Toby!
Kids really did great job. Every year, you see them improving. Today, they played together with Hope College students. Hey, I am bias. I think my kids did better.
Jenny was very excited about the concert. She clapped at the end of every number. She was especially excited if she could see Joshua or Toby - which was hard thing to do because they were blocked either by a music note stand or someone in the band. Jenny also loved to be allowed to hold video camera, but I think we will have to turn ourself 360 degrees many times in order to watch the video she taped. Oh, well - everything comes with practice.
Anna, on the other hand, slept through the whole concert. It was just another high school concerts for her. She was tired after a long day of school. Kids were get used to stay home for the past 4 days because they had two snow days - Monday and Tuesday. Today was the first day they went back to school.
We were home just in time to see the start of the Lunar Eclipse. We had some clouds but most of the time, you could see it clearly. It was very cool! Taking photo of it, though, was not easy. We tried anyway.


Holland Christian High School Concert


Toby is getting ready


Joshua just finished his peformance


Lunar Eclipse ~9:30 pm


Lunar Eclipse ~10:00pm


Lunar Eclipse ~ 11:00pm - with clouds over it.

Things we know and learn about our kids

We raise three children before adopting Jenny. We found out that everyday, we learn something new about Jenny. It makes us realize that we have taken granted about the things we know about the children we raise.

Things we know about Toby:

1. He is a very caring person
2. He loves his job
3. He is a good leader
4. He is dependable
5. He is responsible driver
6. He is an excellent student with very good grades
   
7. He loves Lacrosse
   
8. He knows what is right and what is wrong
9. He loves everything mom and dad cook especially mom's dumplings
10. He is left handed in everything except golf
    

Things we know about Joshua:

1. He acts as careless, but cares a lot in his heart on everything surrounding him
2. He is an excellent student with very good grades
   
3. He loves everything Mac
4. He loves computer and programming
5. He is very good at Math
6. He is a picky eater
7. He likes smash potatoes, broccoli, corn and peas
8. His favorite food is Lasagna and Steak
9. He hates messy food, but does not mind messy room
10. He is left handed in everything
    

Things we know about Anna

1. She loves her teacher Mrs. Ashby
2. She cares about her friends
3. She loves her little sister
4. She likes to wear T-shirt over turtleneck
5. She loves to play Legos and video games
6. She loves to watch"Ni Hao Kailan"
7. She loves to eat dumplings
8. She is a very good swimmer
9. She can sing 5 Chinese songs and a lots of Chinese words
   
10. She is left handed on everything

Things we learn about Jenny:

1. She loves everything pink, sparkling and shiny
2. She loves Spaghetti with meat sauce
3. She loves to dress up
4. She loves math
5. She can count to 100 in Chinese and to 10 in English
   
6. She can add and subtract with numbers smaller than 12
7. She loves to do jumping robe and playing video games and dolls
   
8. She wanted to ride bike in the snow and got "no" for answer
9. She adores her sister and calls her "jiejie"
10. She eats with left hand and write with right hand most of time, but some time with left hand.