Weekend, Update

With a yard like this, you'd think my kids played football:

(Look closely, you'll see yard-lines. Ken + fertilizer = stripes.)

Well, we're not doing football yet, but we do have a T-Ball player (and Assistant Coach) in the family. Shannon is playing for another year only because his buddy Sean is playing and Sean's Dad, Jesse, is the coach. Jesse, in turn, named Ken his assistant. Here they are at the opening ceremony:

And here is Shannon ready for his first game of the season (minus one shoe):

It should be an interesting year. There was a lot of craziness getting the league going this year, but now all we have left are two months of T-Ball games. Most are on Friday nights so we will still have our weekends free, and since Ken's presence is mandatory, I'm not forced to be at every game whether I want to be there or not.

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Onto another subject, Riley has been bothered by allergies this Spring and has been experiencing a lot of drainage. I let him sleep in the recliner one night, which enabled him to get a decent nights sleep. However, when I demanded he sleep in his own bed the next night, he improvised:

Riley made his own recliner by dumping out a large tub of clothes that he'd found in his closet, and filling the tub with a large stack of clean blankets which were also found in his closet. Now I have two large piles of once organized, folded, and clean laundry that is now disorganized, wrinkly and most likely not-so-clean. But Riley is sleeping well at night.

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And finally, I spent all morning at a dentist's office getting a second opinion about having veneers placed on my teeth. The good news is that they ARE an option. The bad news is that I would have to go through hell before my teeth could accept them. Seems I have an overbite that would result in failure within ten years if I went ahead and got them now.

The solution is simple. First of all, I would need to get braces (luckily it appears that I would only have to wear them for 12 - 18 months.) In order to prepare my teeth for braces, I would need to have five root canals and three fillings done. Once this has been accomplished, I can wear braces for under two years at an approximate cost of $5400. Once my bite has been corrected and my teeth aligned, I would have to have three crowns put on my molars, and then if I would still like to correct the yellow tooth (which will now be straight,) I have a little more work left. Should my yellow tooth survive all of the shifting from the braces, I would then have to have a root canal performed on it, (although if the tooth fails at either of these two stages, I can always get an implant, no problem.) Once the root canal is performed, they can shave it down and apply a veneer. Simple as that!

Did I mention that I don't mind the spaces in my teeth, I simply want to repair the one yellow tooth? Anyhow, we're talking about it, but in the meantime, I'm going to hit a couple of grocery stores and get some quotes on teeth-whitening products.