Noah at Mary Poppins

Friday night Scott took Noah to the Broadway show, "Mary Poppins." It's Noah's favorite movie - - he was so excited to be there! Scott said he didn't move a muscle the whole time, he was just entranced. I wish we all could have gone, but the tickets were fairly pricey. I'm just glad Noah could go. He hasn't stopped talking about it yet! He can't wait to tell all his friends, and he really wants to go again.

Candy's Party

We had a fun weekend. Friday morning we flew to DC (left the house at 6:30) - - of course our first flight was cancelled and our 2nd one was delayed an hour. We finally made it - - we were there for my brother's wedding, I'll post about it later, when I get the pictures.

Anyway, Sunday morning we flew from DC to La Guardia (NYC) to go to our friend Candy's annual Mother's Day party. Scott worked for Candy when she was a consultant for United many years ago. She is a fascinating person, used to be the CEO of Harlequin and is now the VP of marketing for the Washington Post. Her husband Joe is the wine editor for Conde Nast magazine. They know all kinds of interesting people and are very fun to talk to. Candy is a huge reader and bought me a huge stack of books when we first got to know eachother and introduced me to several of my now favorite authors. She is a real sweet person. We went to one of her parties several years ago and it was lots of fun, and since it was kind of on our way home (not really) we were excited to attend this one.

We got in several hours before the party started, so we stopped at the Bronx Zoo. We'd never been before - - they have several really great exhibits, especially the apes and gorillas. It was the most beautiful day, perfect for walking around outside. We had a great time.

Then we drove to Candy's beautiful home (she and Joe live in New Jersey). Just like last time, the party was full of great food and insteresting people. Lots of people in publishing, a CEO of a huge company, an ACLU lawyer, a woman who had been a lawyer and went back to school to become a teacher, a humor columnist, and his wife, who just wrote her first book, which I'm planning to read (I'll let you know how it is). The kids got bored after a couple of hours, so they sat in the car and watched movies on the DVD player. We flew out of Newark, but of course our flight was cancelled again so we didn't get home until midnight (that's 4 airports in one day, if you're counting). So now I have all this laundry to do, house to clean, etc. Also I took Noah to the orthodontist today and he needs a "dweedle" - - braces on 2 teeth in the back, because one is coming in way too far forward. The same thing happened to Ethan! He was really good with the x-rays today, but I don't know how well he'll deal with the impression on Thursday.

More on the wedding later . . .

Smile!

Just a little hint from a tooth professional. If a tooth (baby or permanent) gets knocked completely out (with the root still attached) the best thing to do is not rinse it off but to put it right back in the tooth socket (if it is muddy or something you can rinse it with contact lens solution). If the socket is too swollen or painful to put it back in then keep it in a little cup with contact lens solution (if that's not available I think milk is an ok second choice, but not water). Then head straight to the dentist. A lot of times the tooth will be ok, they can splint it to adjacent teeth and the bone will grow around it and hold it back in place. This happened today to my neighbor's little boy (a front baby tooth was completely knocked out). I was so glad I was home and could tell her what to do (and watch her other kids while she went to the dentist.)
If the tooth is broken off then there's really no point in taking special care of the broken off piece, you can't glue it back on. (This happened to Ethan last year, chipped a big piece of his front tooth off - - the school nurse saved it in milk, but there's no way to fix that!)