Who's the Ry Guy?

I've been going through some old video clips and this one from November made me smile, so I thought I'd share it. Enjoy.

First Patient

Two weeks ago Adam got to see his first patient--ME! I had a little cavity for him to fill. It was fun to see Adam in his element and I decided he'll make a great dentist. :) This next shot shows a rubber dam (avoid the crazy light). I HATED getting this thing on. Since I was at the school for 4 hours, I had to take 2 bathroom breaks during my appointment. Yes, I truly walked out into the hallway with this sexy green rubber covering my face. All you see of the mouth is a section of my upper teeth sticking out. FREAKY.

When Adam was almost done with everything he asked someone what time it was. They told him the time and he said, "Wow, that went by fast!" Here I am, my mouth/jaw hurting, my back aching from the chair, and my neck in a huge kink thinking, "FAST?? Are you kidding me?" Give him a few more years and he'll be able to do the filling in 10 minutes...

The next week Adam got to see me again to do a cleaning. This was only a 3 hour appt. :) I haven't had that done in almost 5 years, and it felt great to have that fresh clean feeling. Adam must be a persuasive dentist because I've actually flossed twice since then--including under my retainer. I've had this retainer for 10 years now and only flossed under it twice before this cleaning, so I've met my 10-year timeline in 1 week! A little too much info about my oral hygiene, I know...

Growing Up Too Fast

The Deed is Done

After months of wishy washy debate over the hair issue, I finally caved in. During the Christmas break I found Adam online looking for hair cutting places 3 times. :) He even got a bit mad about the messy hair and said Ryan runs into things because he can't see. I disagree and think he only runs into things because he's too tired to walk straight (something that happens often to this kid because he refuses to take naps). However, it's so seldom that Adam gets so passionately opinionated about something that I felt I had to give in. This is my feeling on the event:


Before:

After:

The new stylin' Dude:

Ryan's new do is definitely handsome and Jessica did a great job (thanks again!). Adam is stoked to have the hair gone, and Ryan? He loves it. As soon as he saw himself in the mirror he was all smiles. He gave the same reaction each time he saw a mirror in the next 2 days. (I'm sure he'll miss shaking his head back and forth, though, and letting his hair whip around. He used to love that.)

Okay, so I admit it. I cried the next day over the fact that my little boy can genuinely NOT be called a baby anymore. :(

Would You Want to Cut This?

I thought not.

The Battle of Nova Scotia

This week we went to our first Canadian hockey game! The Halifax Mooseheads played against the Screaming Eagles of Cape Breton--Hence, the Battle of Nova Scotia. The Screaming Eagles pretty much walloped the Mooseheads. We had a great time. I remember when we first moved here and saw a skate sharpening shop just down the street from our house. I wondered how such a place would stay in business, particularly in our part of town. Duh, people play hockey here! We took some Canadian friends to the game with us and talked some hockey/skating/curling talk, eh? We're seriously outnumbered here in that we don't even own our own skates!

Christmas Fun

We had another great Christmas this year in Nova Scotia. Here are some Christmas highlights. Santa Claus! Ryan got to see 4 different Santas this year at various Christmas parties, and he was somewhat curious about all of them. At least he didn't scream or get scared of them. He knows the word Santa because we have a Santa pillow that he likes to play with.

We continued on with a tradition we started last year of making a gingerbread house. Adam and I got into a bit of a frosting fight at the end because we had so much left over! Now that Christmas is over we've started eating the house and it's pretty darn good for a decoration!

This is Ryan's Christmas stash. He got some cars, a recorder, and a French dictionary from us, a xylophone, bath toys, and goldfish from Santa, a train and a mug from friends, a stuffed nativity set from my aunt, and a pull frog and puzzle from Grandma and Grandpa Hatch. Ryan loved his new stuff. Favorite--GOLDFISH. He was beyond excited about those things and stuffed his face so full that he was drueling goldfish. Next favorite--train. We were a little bummed that he liked a present from a friend better than the rockin' cool cars we'd picked out! He does love the cars too, though. :) He likes to drag his pull frog around the house. Usually it's upside down and sliding on its eyeballs. Oh yes, and I can't forget the leg warmers that I made them. Let's just say he wasn't overly excited about opening them.

We made a nice Christmas dinner. We made a turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy, peas and candied yams, and I finally bucked up and made my first rolls. They were perfect. We'd invited a few different families over, but we were too late in asking and in the end had Christmas dinner by ourselves. This actually ended up being a very good thing, because we had to have our turkey dinner sans turkey... It wasn't ready until an hour after we'd eaten everything else. That would have been pretty embarrassing.

We loved getting to have lots of family time together while Adam was off school. We went bowling twice, tried out a new swimming pool, cut out snowflakes, went to a museum, went to a hockey game, had some friends over, visited other friends, played in the snow, went to several Christmas parties, tried out some new recipes, drove around looking at Christmas lights, watched a few movies, Skyped a lot with our families, and played, played, played at home. It's been nice to have another quiet, non-stressful Christmas.