Real quick we were thinking about moving again and this time we are looking at moving companies to help us out. We were looking at the other side of the country like the Florida area. I have a ton of relatives out there and I think being close to them again would be good for me and the kids.

But … there is so much crap to move that I don’t think I want to pack all of this up and drive a big ‘ol truck all the way across the world. Let someone else deal with all that! I want to be lazy and just fly out with a few things then just unpack when we get there.

Although the thought of moving is nice and getting out of the dry hot desert is also appealing, I don’t see us being able to go anywhere until a few very loose ends are tied up! Tied up!

I have been dealing with laptop issues since before we went on our trip to Washington. Before we left I wanted to spruce up the desktop to make the UI a little easier on the eyes. Not to mention I have been using the iMAC for so long now that I am more acustomed to the layout of the screen.

After installing, or should I say re-installing, Window$ XP Media Center, the glitches began. At first they weren’t too much of a hassle. I got most of the bugs worked out and my laptop was as easy to use as the first day I got it. Everyone remembers their first day with a new computer. They are always so much easier to use arent they? Well after getting all the drivers installed and making sure all the Window$ downloads were in there, all 1200 of them, I started noticing that there are little things like the WiFi that would Just stop working for no reason at all. No setting were changed and nothing was turned on or off by me or anyone that used the laptop.

After some careful consideration I decided that one last time of re-installing an OS was going to be necessary. Well … this time Ubuntu was the OS of choice. Never again will I make this mistake. If you don’t know anyting about Ubuntu don’t try and use it as your only or primary OS on your laptop. ALTHOUGH I will say this, when I installed Ubuntu and restarted, removed the install CD and fired it up for the first time, everything worked. EVERYTHING!!! There was no need for searching for the drivers for the video card or the booming laptop sound system drivers. The laptop was 100% ready to go immediatly after install. THAT was pretty cool. The only down side for me is that I have never used Ubuntu and I am somewhat new to the whole coding your computer thing so getting some of the Admin level “things” to work is impossible for me. I’m going to stick with it though. Everything on my laptop just seems like it is running better and to be honest I like having the extra room on the HD since Dell was stingy on the HD space and only left me with a 60 Gig HD.

I downloaded the Wotdpress App a few days ago and gave of a go. I ran into a few bug that were fixed apparently. One of the biggest issues I ran in to was that I couldn’t load a blog to the phone.

I did a few minutes research led me to believe that no one really tests put their installs correctly. Everything that I read told me I was not goi g to get this app working. Well here we are and so far so good!

I kept getting an error that said there was an inability to connect the XML-RPC file. I tried out several of the fixes listed in the help forums but none made any difference at all. So what did work you say??

Well I will tell you. If you ate having trouble using you’d iPhone to update your blog then try this ……..

In “Settings” ~ “Writing” make sure the box is checked for the XML~RPC file then check your Theme. If the app doesn’t work with your theme then use the Default theme on your blog until WP App is installed, and working, then change the theme back when you are dome.

If I send a cabana boy can I get a trinket ??

My sons permanent teeth are coming in behind his baby teeth and the baby teeth are not out all the way just yet. They are however very lose and have been for a very long time. Actually since he smacked his face on a slide trying to run up it the wrong way when he was about 2 1/2 while at daycare when the Oasis Daycare (Now out of business, go figure) Child Care Provider stopped paying attention to the kids. But thats a different story.

So recently, about two weeks ago, the permanent teeth started to poke through and the baby teeth had not made it out all the way. Being as loose as they are however, every senior member of the family has taken their turn trying to “pull” them out. Understand that these teeth have had dead roots and have been loose for over 3 1/2 years. Since the slide incident. I have urged and enforced a little game that kept him wiggling his teeth during every TV commercial while he was sitting around watching the tube. They had gotten looser since the beginning of the game and to be perfectly honest … when I was 6 I string and door pulled 3 of my teeth and all of my teeth turned out just fine.

SO … I told my little tough guy that I wanted to try and give it a shot and see if they were in fact loose enough to come out with a little coaxing from a piece of string and some muscle. WELL … it just so happened that the teeth were ready to come out and they popped right out like a couple rockets out of a launching pad. His initial reaction when I tied on the string was to be scared … what 6 year old wouldn’t be right … but when the first one popped out like nothing was holding it in, and nothing was for a very long time, he was so excited.

Now .. for all you everyone going OMG right now keep reading. I called the dentist that we took him to when he cracked his face on the slide who was very nice and helpful at the time of injury. His recommendation at that time was to pull out the teeth since the roots were already dying and would be completely gone within a couple of weeks. On top of that the roots to not re-attach themselves. He also gave an option of pulling the teeth and adding in a set of fake teeth that would be attached to his outer teeth and would have to be pulled when the new teeth, the ones in question today, came in because there would be no room for them and they would come in behind the baby teeth. You follow? Then of corse the option my sons mother chose, and I WILL get into that in a second, was to leave the teeth, the dead teeth, in there and hope for the best. Her reasoning for leaving the dead teeth in there was so that he wouldn’t talk funny and kids wouldn’t make fun of him for talking funny. Seriously. I’m not even joking. Understand this .. with the option of leaving the now unrooted teeth in there that the possibility of infection and abscess were very possible and something that we had to watch for every day for over 3 1/2 years now.

When I called this dentist today he advised that if the teeth were loose that we should give pulling them out a shot and not to try “too hard” but also not to be overly easy on them. He actually remembered our son, from notes I’m sure, and the situation that we were in and would be in further in the future when the new permanent teeth started to come through. There are not may dentists that would recommend pulling your own teeth, but when they are baby teeth that are loose and ready to come out anyway, there is no problem giving them a little encouragement.

I also read an article while searching for other parents that had this problem and I found some very interesting information. If your child has “Shark” teeth as they sometimes call this apparently, then you are in luck. This is perfectly normal and your child is not the only one that this has happened to and on top of that this is NOT an emergency. Keep an eye on the teeth that are coming in. If they get through the gums behind the baby teeth then watch how far out they come and how long it takes. If they make it out and the baby teeth are not loose then get your kid to the dentist. If the teeth that are coming in are pushing out the baby teeth still and the baby teeth are loose, watch for the signs that the baby teeth are getting looser and if they are make sure you are sure that the roots are all the way resorbed before you start tugging on them. If your kid is in pain because of the huge teeth coming in then take them to the dentist.

Some things you should know.

This is more common in the lower teeth and not in the uppers. The only reason this happened to my son was because of a stubborn and slightly over cautious mother. If his teeth would have been taken out when the dentist recommended it then we would not even have noticed any difference when the new teeth came through.

In the front two bottom teeth this usually happens around age 6. Be cautious because around age 11 it could happen again with their farther back molars also on the bottom. It’s not uncommon so don’t freak out.

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So how is everyone today? We are finally back from the Ultimate Vacation Experience and let me just start by saying HECK YEAH. Thanks to Nina and Nino we got to have a really nice time … extraordinaire, fantastic, out of this world vacation experience. I personally have NEVER had such a great time traveling in a POV across the great countryside. But the Vacation is a story for another time.

I have something I want to share with you that really makes me wonder if kids don’t really see more than we think or realize in our action and in what we say. Out loud!

So I was plugging away on the computer and my youngest son, who is only 16 months to date, wanted to sit next to me at the desk. Now I have sat him on my lap many a times so that he could watch the computer screen with me while I was talking to his Mommy on IM and working on websites or some cool flash or whatever else I was doing while he was up and being a boy.

Check this future hacker of America out ……

I figured I would give him his own little corner of the desk today and I set him up with a keyboard and access to the side slide out thingy and to my surprise he placed his thumbs on the spacebar and his fingers as close as they could be to the home keys on out. (He still has little tiny baby hands)

This is a random image from a trip we took to go and see Q’s cool room and all the toys!!

Very nice … How amazing is it that at 16 months he has taken notice where my hands are placed on a keyboard and he doesn’t hunt and peck like his older brother of 6 years who refuses to pay attention to little things like hand placement but has leaked out an almost cuss word a time or two. Still these two boys are so bright. They are our little shinning stars.