Remington Family Blog

Halloween made this week very busy. Even though it was fun I am glad it is over. We started it off with a dinner with family that had menu items of, mummy pizza, night crawler rolls, spider cookies, and bubbling blood. Then we had a ward carnival where Kelsie dressed as an Asian Princess, Clarissa was a pumpkin, Brinlee as a princess, Sariah as Juliet and Reed as an old man without a mask. Halloween day I had a great time dressing up as an old man and going to work. It took a lot of people quite a while to figure out who I really was. Halloween night Kelsie was a caterpillar, and Clarissa a bat. I had to carry Clarissa to all the doors since she still has her cast of from her broken leg. Mom stayed home with a painful mouth, and princess Brinlee. The kids got a lot of candy that will take us a while to eat. We talked that maybe we will have a piñata in Dec with what candy is left over. As always, go check out the photos in the 2007 gallery.

Sariah has finally decided to bite the bullet and get braces. Obviously this is not something that anyone wants to go through, but in the long run it will be worth it. She went to the orthodontist and had an estimate. Tuesday she had the braces put on and on Wednesday she had to have 7 teeth removed. Picking her up from the oral surgery was definitely an October event. I go to pick her up and there she is sitting in a wheelchair, with a monitor hooked up to her and blood saturated gauze stuffed in her mouth as if she is playing ‘Fluffy Bunny.’ As I was driving her home, the gauze would drip blood down her neck. I drove with one hand and the steering wheel and the other dabbing blood of my wife. I can only image what other drivers were thinking when they saw my bloody wife sitting in the car. I wish I had taken a camera to capture the moment. She will have to have the braces on for 2 and a half years. I keep telling her that the first month is going to take forever, but after that the rest of the time will go by very quickly. I am proud of her even if she is in extreme pain right now.

Sariah has been talking about dying her hair black for a week or so. She has been a little worried about the change. She went and bought the dye and wondered if it was the ‘right color’. I finally folded and told her that when she dyed it I would do it too. She was excited. I dyed my hair black a few years ago, well before I even know my wife existed so I knew what I was getting myself into.

Sunday night after the kids were in bed we got started. It was great fun. You have to see the photos in the 2007 gallery to get the full laugh. On the package it said: “Not to be used to dye facial hair.” Immediately I thought I should dye my facial hair. After it was done all turned out quite well. Go and take a look at the photos. Hope they give you a good laugh. The one photo with the dye in my goatee reminds me of the Dominos Oreo pizza.

Major event happened two days ago for a parent, our child’s first bone break. Clarissa was running around on the hardwood floor and slipped and fell like she does each and every day. Except this time she fell just right to hurt her left leg. We watched it for a few hours to see if it was a sprain or a break and finally made an appointment to take her in after she continued to not want to even move for many hours. The x-rays showed an obvious break.

Currently, we have a 22 month old in a pretty purple cast that is trying to cope with an overnight change from running to being carried everywhere she goes. I think that she is living it up a little, and demanding to be carried excessively, but what else would I expect from a toddler.