Reasons to Skip School

A few days after his birthday, Hyrum had an appointment with our new dentist, Dr. Jared Johnson (a 2nd cousin to Poppa Jeff) to get his teeth pulled. I have a feeling it is the beginning of many years with orthodontists for our family....SIGH.

 

I don't know a lot about teeth, but apparently these are monster teeth. Hy did great. We went to McDonalds to get some ice cream for the boy, but he couldn't eat it because of the numbing stuff. Then the pain meds started to wear off and he was in PAIN. He screamed bloody murder almost the whole way home until we reached the turn off to Malta and suddenly he stopped. And although he hurt the rest of the day, it wasn't as bad. And he was pretty proud of his teeth.

 

They were sooo big, he got a $1.25 for each tooth from the tooth fairy.

 And then a little while after that, Hyrum got to leave school to watch the guys poor cement in front of the little white shed. He had been asking lots of questions about cement trucks since Karen Fowles got him a lego cement mixer for his "birthday" and so Ev thought "we can't let schooling get in the way of his education" and got him out of school. I don't think he was sad about leaving school for a little while.... ;)