Time for a Round of..."Guess What This Is..."

If you said: a first molar of a 7 year old on a black binder, you are correct! While flossing, Andrew pulled one of his fillings out. It was refilled, but ended up abscessing about a week later. Apparently, abscesses can be very painful and life threatening (the infection can spread to your bloodstream), but we did not experience either. Pulling the tooth is standard procedure...good thing he has another one that will come in behind it (in about 2 years). Oddly, I also had a tooth pulled due to an abscess when I was young, but I wasn't so lucky. It was a permanent one and I have the gap in my teeth to prove it. Here is a picture of the tooth in its correct position...check out those roots!

Visiting Harmony

For those of you who don't know, Harmony is not some tranquil spa offering massages and yoga (although it would be a good name for one). "Harmony" is the closest english pronunciation for grandmother in Korean, therefore that is what my kids call my mom. Btw, my mom is Korean (just in case you did not know that either).

Harmony lives in Clarksville, Tn. and we try to visit her a couple of times a year. The kids love to eat Korean food with chopsticks on her little table (you sit on the floor to eat) and catch lightening bugs in her yard. A little FYI: the tree in the picture is a chestnut tree that she grew from an actual chestnut! She can grow anything!

The kids looking for lightening bugs in Harmony's backyard.

Cow Appreciation Day

After watching our friend Jamie perform in her drama camp play Sleeping Beauty (visit Packs blog for more pics), we headed to Chick-fil-A for some lunch. Since it was Cow Appreciation Day, anyone dressed like a cow from head to toe received a free meal. Any partial likenesses would receive a free entree. As you can see, only Juliana was in the full garb but they kindly gave all of us free meals. It was fun (and very busy) and provided another photo op to embarrass the kids later on in life.

The cows, I mean kids

Kelly (and gang) with us earning our free meals. Notice how Andrew is strategically behind Juliana?

Until Next Time

On Saturday, July 5th, the Choate family was able to spend a little more time with us. We started the day with some blueberry picking. Kelly and her kids joined us for a lunchtime cookout and for dessert the kids got to make their own sundaes (fresh blueberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream for the adults). We concluded the day with one of our traditional get together activities...a game of Hand and Foot.

We wish the Choate family well on their new exciting and adventurous endeavour.

Blueberry picking with the Choates. Truth be known, it was originally

Joanna's idea to pick blueberries (maybe 4 ?) years ago. Thanks for introducing this (now annual) tradition to our family!

The kids making their own sundaes

Until next time, my dear friend ...

In a Pinch, Lowe's Will Do...

...just fine. Due to a misleading weather forecast, plans to go to the park to watch fireworks were scrapped. Instead, our good family friends, the Choates, joined us at our house for the traditional 4th of July meal, pizza. She-She and Hailey were able to join us too. In a last minute decision at 8:50 (since the thunderstorms never appeared), the Choate kids (minus Katherine) and the Ohrbergs headed to the Lowe's parking lot (insert music here) "to see what we could see" .

The view of the fireworks from the Lowe's parking lot

The Choate and Ohrberg kids watching the fireworks