updates

The oven saga is finally over.  It works!  Yesterday the part came, but while trying to put it in, my husband discovered a different problem....a wire that was burned through in the back (which is probably why the heating element kept going out.  He took the wire off, and that meant I then had no stove, either.  We went all around town the other night trying to find a replacement wire, without any luck.  But we did get the name of a place that might have it, so I went there yesterday and got what we needed.  When he got home lastnight my husband put it all back together, and it worked!  So I survived a week and a day without my oven, and we didn't have to go out and buy a new one, even though that would have been nice.  And we didn't even have to resort to eating take out.  I used the grill and my crock pot and did just fine.  

I can't remember if I wrote abut Rachel's dental woes, but there have been some.  They resulted in two trips this week to two different orthodontists, for two different opinions, to figure out what to do about a molar that's growing in at an angle.  The consensus was that the baby tooth it's getting stuck on needs to be extracted in order to make room for the permanent molar.  She has some other crowding issues, but nothing too terrible, it sounded like, and it all sounds much less traumatic and expensive than originally feared.  I'm not looking forward to dealing with the extraction, as shes so dramatic and fearful when it comes to anything like that, but we were told we can wait until summer, so I'm happy to put it off for a little while.

Rebecca is enjoying talking about letters, their sounds, and finally is even writing some letters.  She learned now to write an "R" last week while Grandma was here, and she's writing them everywhere.  She talks a lot lately about words that rhyme and is getting a little better each day and coming up with words that really do rhyme (a lot of times she will say things that start with the same letter rhyme, so we're working on it, explaining that they don't start with the same letter, but need to end with the same sounds to make them rhyme...she is slowly catching on).  

They're both loving the warmer weather and play outside every chance they get.  It makes it hard to make Rachel do her homework in the afternoons when she gets home from school and it's so beautiful outside!  I'll be glad when summer is here and there's no homework to worry about and they can play outside to their heart's content!