Nothing...
Friday, March 12, 2010 by Amy
Seriously, nothing is going on around here. Nothing, nothing, nothing...
The weather is getting better, so hopefully this weekend will be nice. We're planning on going to the Denver Zoo tomorrow. The weekend after this is the Denver March Powwow that Riley and Rudi, in particular, are looking forward to.
Oh, I've been calling dentists to see about getting some of my missing teeth fixed. Interesting stuff, I know! So, I have two implants with a missing tooth between them, and I asked a dentist's office, on a whim, if there was such a thing as a bridge abutted on implants. Turns out, there is! I may be able to get all three teeth replaced! It will cost a bit more right now, but I won't have to get an implant for that other missing tooth. Sweet...and these offices offer cash discounts and multiple crown discounts, so it shouldn't be too much more than I would have paid for two crowns. Nice. It would be so awesome to finally have those gaps filled! Not as if that's the only work I need done, but it's a start!
Riley's front tooth is not long for this world. It has been loose for several months, literally. She was still 5 when it first came loose. Now it's just sticking out there, all nasty and whatnot. Loose teeth give me the heebie-jeebies. Last year, Riley was playing with Matthew and as he was talking, his tooth was just flapping in the wind and fell out right there. I nearly puked. Her other front tooth is also loose, although not nearly as much. It's probably waiting for the other tooth to fall out. I'm taking the teeth-losing thing pretty hard though. My girl is growing up!
We've started feeding Lola a raw diet. So far so good. Right now she is getting one raw chicken drumstick and one raw egg a day. She seems satisfied. Chicken is the easiest to digest, so we'll stick with that for a while. Later we'll start adding other meats and some organ meat. The first time I put a drumstick in her bowl, she hunched up like she was going to get in trouble, or like I was framing her, and ran away with it. Yuck! So, I took the pad out of her crate so it was just the plastic tray in the bottom and tossed the drumstick in there. That way, I just wipe up the tray when she's done and put the pad back in. Easy-peasy! Instead of staring at her kibble and then walking away without eating, she is enjoying meals now. Hopefully she'll lose a little weight. Growing hair on her chest would be a bonus too. Some people suggest feeding rice and vegetable puree, but so many people say that's not necessary, so I don't know which to do. I'll probably just monitor Lola and see if she seems to be missing something in her diet.
The weather is getting better, so hopefully this weekend will be nice. We're planning on going to the Denver Zoo tomorrow. The weekend after this is the Denver March Powwow that Riley and Rudi, in particular, are looking forward to.
Oh, I've been calling dentists to see about getting some of my missing teeth fixed. Interesting stuff, I know! So, I have two implants with a missing tooth between them, and I asked a dentist's office, on a whim, if there was such a thing as a bridge abutted on implants. Turns out, there is! I may be able to get all three teeth replaced! It will cost a bit more right now, but I won't have to get an implant for that other missing tooth. Sweet...and these offices offer cash discounts and multiple crown discounts, so it shouldn't be too much more than I would have paid for two crowns. Nice. It would be so awesome to finally have those gaps filled! Not as if that's the only work I need done, but it's a start!
Riley's front tooth is not long for this world. It has been loose for several months, literally. She was still 5 when it first came loose. Now it's just sticking out there, all nasty and whatnot. Loose teeth give me the heebie-jeebies. Last year, Riley was playing with Matthew and as he was talking, his tooth was just flapping in the wind and fell out right there. I nearly puked. Her other front tooth is also loose, although not nearly as much. It's probably waiting for the other tooth to fall out. I'm taking the teeth-losing thing pretty hard though. My girl is growing up!
We've started feeding Lola a raw diet. So far so good. Right now she is getting one raw chicken drumstick and one raw egg a day. She seems satisfied. Chicken is the easiest to digest, so we'll stick with that for a while. Later we'll start adding other meats and some organ meat. The first time I put a drumstick in her bowl, she hunched up like she was going to get in trouble, or like I was framing her, and ran away with it. Yuck! So, I took the pad out of her crate so it was just the plastic tray in the bottom and tossed the drumstick in there. That way, I just wipe up the tray when she's done and put the pad back in. Easy-peasy! Instead of staring at her kibble and then walking away without eating, she is enjoying meals now. Hopefully she'll lose a little weight. Growing hair on her chest would be a bonus too. Some people suggest feeding rice and vegetable puree, but so many people say that's not necessary, so I don't know which to do. I'll probably just monitor Lola and see if she seems to be missing something in her diet.
