Baby, Dentist, Coding, and a Party

December is upon us with all it's goodness. The best goodness is our new nephew Kaden Dale Stokes!

My sister and her family welcomed him this last week! He is named after some great men.

We are trying to establish care with doctors and a dentist before the year is out. We have each seen the dentist. Dr. Coffee is committed to teaching prevention. She wants to teach about how dentistry works. Hurricane and Underfoot both needed to have some sealants put on their teeth.

Hurricane went first, and she talked him through each step. We came back a different day for Underfoot. She asked Hurricane to explain to Underfoot what she was going to do. He even remembered the process.

She then had Hurricane stand next to her while she did the work on Underfoot. Hurricane was fit for a pallet expander. She then had the boys make molds of their thumbs.

Sweetheart and I met our new PCP for an annual exam. It was nice to go together. 

Hurricane had a concert at school. He has been learning about Diwali, Hanukah, and Christmas. The song he comes home singing is the Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel. He didn't sing that one in the concert.

One day after music class, he came home with gelt and wanted us to buy more gelt so we could play the dreidel game.

Underfoot's school hosted an evening of An Hour of Code. The boys attended and tried the different coding available to them.

They liked Bits Box and scratch.mit.edu. The Hour of Code is way to introduce computer programing to children. Sweetheart and the boys like to code when they use the EV3 and from the coding language Python. They are reading about book about how to do it together.

Sweetheart changed the water heater anode rod. The former rod was almost all but eaten.

The purpose behind the rod is to extend the life of your water heater and has nothing to do with the temperature of the water.

He was grateful to complete that when he compared the 2 rods.

We have worked on the house for almost 4 months and have finally come down to 1 page of projects to finish. One of the projects was to put up shelving the basement and finish unpacking what is down in the basement. Happy to report that we have found our alarm clock, Underfoot's Bear book, socks, and a few other missing items. It's nice to have things off the floor. Sweetheart has been work on putting in a whole house humidifier. He also figured out how to fix the hot tub.

Sweetheart's employer host a Christmas Party at the Buckhorn Exchange. We dressed up and tried some different game like duck, bison, elk, Rocky Mountain oysters, and alligator.

We had fun time seeing Eevi and Troy, friends from Tucson. Sweetheart learned about the job at Rincon from Troy. We are grateful that Sweetheart is employed and happy with what he is doing.

I have decided to do a 30 day photo challenge. I've enjoyed trying to be creative.

Sweetheart's iPhone broke. He spent the last week getting phone fixed. In the end, Apple fixed the phone much to Sweetheart's relief.

Be Well.

*****

We may have a book addiction. 

We may reserve up to 99 books. 

We may have 4 cards.

When my parents came to visit, 

we went to Village Inn where Grandpa Kirky

taught the boys about how his Dad sampled syrup.

We had an appointment go later than planned 

and headed to IHOP.

Underfoot demonstrated how to sample syrup.

 Goooood.....

Hurricane snapped this shot.

I thought I looked good.

He then did this shot of himself.

 Our Jesse Tree

 Photo Challenge - Something RED

 Photo Challenge: JOYOUS

 Photo Challenge: TODAY'S TEMPERATURE

 Aunt Karol made a book about Gramps.

She sent me one.

Gramps is my great-Grandfather

who dressed as Santa for many, many years.