Crowns and Cars

I would like to introduce the new King of the family to you. His name is Benjamin and he received his first crown on Thursday. In all seriousness, we went to the dentist to get his 2 cavities filled and they came out and told me that he needed a crown cause there was a crack under the cavity that would start to hurt him soon. So, Ben really is the first to get a crown in our family :)
The medicine they gave him (versed) made him loopy and hallucinate. I was sitting with him on the couch and saw him reaching at the ceiling. I asked him what he saw and he told me ,'motorcycles', then he kept reaching and grabbing at them saying ,"WO!". Jen and Kandi were over cause we were working out and Ben would slur their names and talk really loud....he was acting like a drunk baby. The dentist told me that Ben wouldn't remember anything for about 6 hours, so I didn't feel too bad laughing at his drunken behavior a few times......Zoey and Nara enjoyed it becuase they could play with whatever they wanted and Ben wouldn't come take it away. Isabel liked it because the TV was on most of the day cause he couldn't walk either, so we read books and watched movies.

The only way I could get him to look at his new tooth was to take a picture and then have him look at the picture. He is sad that I tell him no on certain candies and gum now. Don't want that beautiful new expensive tooth coming out anytime soon! The dentist said that it will come out naturally by the time he is 10-12yrs old. Isabel's apointment is on the 14th, so we will hope we don't have a queen in the family too :)

Onto the cars.......

Tamina took Sam into Primary Children's to have an EEG on Tuesday, so Adam and Ari came to play after school. When Tamina had Sam I took them dinner, sloppy joe cars, and since they were such a hit I decided that we should make cars again. Here is what mine looked like. (I know, the headlights aren't the best....)

I made wheat breadstick dough and cut squares, then we wrapped the hot dogs with it, baked it and had cut up pickles, cucumbers, carrotts, ketchup & mustard, pretzle sticks (to hold stuff together) and toothpicks to decoate it with. I let the kids go to town. They loved it! We spent an hour on lunch between wrapping the hot dogs, decorating, and eating. Below are everyones creations!

Here is everyone making them.

Adam made a submarine! It was pretty awesome. I think that he used 10 cucumbers. He was able to eat most of the creation! He didn't want pickle people, so he had pretzle stick people instead.

Isabel made a car with TONS of pickles and pretzles. She ate 1/2 a jar of dill pickles. She demolished hers and told me it was a car salad on her plate :)

Ben would stick a toothpick into his and then start giggling and saying 'wo'! It was funny and made me giggle :) He told me that his was an airplane, hence the reason he is flying it in the air. He ate almost ate 2 whole hot dog cars-airplanes.

Jen got in on the action! She had pickle passengers in the back :)

I can't remember what Ari said hers was, but I think that it was a boat becuase she didn't want wheels. She loved the carrotts (yes those are ones from the garden!) I was suprised, but she ate her whole hot dog car too!

All in all I would say that the cars were a success! With the leftover bread dough, I made one pan of cinnamon rolls. They were yummy! Adam even told me that I am the best cinnamon roll and frosting maker ever! I will definitely have to make wheat cinnamon rolls again, they were really yummy and then I won't feel guilty eating them cause they are healthy, right?!