Ben's Dental surgery with Dr. Read

It was 8AM and we were still sleeping. We put the kids to bed late last night for the purpose of waking them up late. I got awoke by a phone call from the dental office. It was in my thought that Ben is gonna be asking food when he woke up. I told to the receptionist that we will be coming in about 30 minutes. I hurriedly change clothes and woke up Ben and Mary. Benjamin woke up right away since it is his dental surgery. Mary is like a wormy waker, slow and kept curling herself and as usual refuse to change her clothes- whining that she is still sleepy.

Oh, the taxi - I was thinking to get a rental car but then it slipped in my mind. So, I got stucked in West Knox Taxi- called them and my ride is on time. We got to the Dental office on time. I signed paperwork for letting them to administer anesthetics thru IV. Oh, we were paying $200.00 co-pay for this surgery. It is in my thought that it will be an expensive and am hoping not. It is a pain in the pocket he he he.

We were waiting 30 minutes before they called Ben. I was so anxious- I got mix feelings that they are going to put my little boy into sleep while Dr. Read pulling out his teeth. Finally they called Ben. It is really funny that Ben is kinda excited to have a surgery. He even watch cartoon network. First, he got to wear that mask- mask on his nose. I guess that is an oxygen and has some anesthetics to put him to sleep. They gave him tylenol for pain reliever before the surgery. Ben is a trooper. He did not even squint while the Dr inserting the needle on his arm for the dextrose. Uhuh! trooper!!!!! Photo below when they were getting ready for surgery. Dr checks the flow of the dextrose and give also a narcotic for sedation. Mary is looking up -she is watching cartoon :)



They sent us away and head to the lobby. I am a bit nervous though. My Ben is inside without his Mom. I am praying that all will be fine. I tried to cheer up myself, took some photos of Mary outside the Dental office. I asked Mary to walk to the other dental office which we can connect to wifi and so I can talk to my husband. He is at school but has wifi. Good thing.

This is what Mary and I, she is always my favorite subject in my photography :d




I talk to Brian and he was surprised that we came in early. He is planning to come and pick us up on his lunch hour. I messed everything. He came and brought us home around noon, he missed his lab exercise. I guess it is not that hard since he came. We could of come home by ourselves.

Brian got to the office 10 minutes before the lady called us that Ben is done on his surgery. Wow! The doctor pulled 6 teeth, all were baby teeth. The two extra baby teeth were the barrier in coming out the adult teeth. He has supernumeric teeth. That is their medical term. Thats why the upper part of his tooth did not fall off. I was waiting for that but since I am the one brushing their teeth. I noticed that there is bump on his gums and it scares me. So, I am urging Brian to let Ben see a Dentist while we are here in the states. It is really different care back there in Yokosuka... I honestly don't like their care. I found it no extra care for patients.. that is what I felt.

The surgery went pretty well.... I was very careful not to bump Benjamin's mouth. After few hours of surgery, I could not believe it, this kid is a trooper. He is ready to bounce himself and play hide and seek LOL. I always keep on eye on Mary not to play with Ben and hurt his mouth. The doctor prescribed him with pain reliever but he only took for at least 24 hours. I did not give him medicine the next day. Kids are amazing how their tissues healed so quick.

Disneyland trip September 7 & 8, 2011

After our cruise to Ak, we stayed a few days in Bremerton area. We stayed at Pacific Beach Shores for a couple of days and we celebrated Ben's birthday. In the next day, we met our cousin Doris Skelly from New York.

We flew to San Diego on the labor day and we stayed at our resort in Ramona. It was a very nice resort. I was wishing to stay a little bit longer there. But we drove the next day to Anaheim and stayed in our other resort at Peacock Suites Anaheim. We mostly spent our time there in Disneyland.

Ben and husband were riding the Buzz lightyear ride.

Father and Son- love the rides

Father and son... love to rides.. ride.. uh! This is their second attempt in riding splash mountain. The first time, Ben was being blocked by the other rider and so they were trying to be on the first and second rider. The crew were putting them again on the 4th and 5th spot but then they were asking the crew to put them on the next log. Brian said that they were rehearsing themselves when they gonna raise their arm for photo..

Where is Mary and me? LOL, we were watching the parade lol. It is a girly girl stuff LOL


Brian mentioned that Ben was laughing with the templates they used when Mickey, Donald and Goofy got wet. Way to go BEN!

Ben really looks funny on his expression.. funny or scared? Well I dont think he got scared, he was asking to ride it again today.

September 6 at Ramona CA

Peacock Suites is one of our resort from Shell Vacation. I was comparing the accommodation from Disney Vacation Club Resort..This is just 2 stars down. But anyways, having a place to stay is the most important thing.

Today, we are packing again and getting ready to head out to Disneyland. Oh yeah, we are Disney NUTS! Waking up at around 800AM, setting up everything and loading the car-Wow!!!! I really don't like the idea of hotel/resort hopping. I guess there is a good strategy in doing this- Oh yeah Brian has and will let you know later hehehehe

Brian checked us out in our resort around 9AM and looking at the time, looks like we could not make it on time in returning our 1-day rental car that we picked up from the airport. We decided to change rental car the next day since it is cheaper that way. The nice thing to the location where we pick up the new car, they let us turn in to their location. It was so nice though. If you guys are looking for rental car, do Hertz though. I find it there cheap from other rental car company but maybe am wrong.

After we got the new rental car, we grabbed some food to eat. We had no breakfast and it is 10AM. ... Oh what a hassle but we dont want to pay more in getting a rental from the airport. It is just too expensive :)) . So, we drove head to Anaheim- drove it for almost 2 hours. When we got there, there is no room available since we got there early. So, we tried to find a grocery store and pick up few things like water. The nice thing, the resort has a complimentary hot breakfast which is good. I just like to save some money and hassle too. It is so hard to travel....everything is a cost.

Right now, while am typing my little journal of the day. I am watching the kids swimming at the pool here at Peacock Suites. What do you think of my fish kids LOL? Brian came in as well and joined us. I am not really a water person. I don't like to dip in the cold water hehehe, Brian was being a chickened though he let his one foot touch in the water. He felt it was freezing but when we asked the kids. The kids said it is fine. They are really fish kids.

After an hour, we head to our room and we saw that the hotel has a complimentary free ice cream at their breakfast. It is nice to have an ice cream, we head up there and grabbed and ate. We were enjoying though, it is F-R-E-E hahaha. That is what Mary was saying.. F-R-E-E... hehehe

After that little refreshment, we did tried to find our annual pass but I could or we could not find. I was so sure that we have it but am just too lazy to look inch by inch in the luggages. And so we went to the park and hoping we could get in but then we were kinda disappointed. Disney is charging now for replacing annual passes. It changed a lot since 2001. So we went back to the resort. We were so thankful though, we found it. We could not pay 80$ for replacing the four passes. LOL.

We spent the rest of our evening here in our resort and trying to sleep early then.

Flying to San Diego from Seattle

September 4th, 2011 - We met our cousin Doris at Lori and Ken's house in Shelton WA

We just had a wonderful time- talking and laughter..

We left at around 630 and trying to catch the ferry at 755PM bound to Seattle.

Brian dropped us (Ben, Mary & I) off at the ferry terminal together with our luggage and I saw a taxi dropping off his passenger. I ran and told the driver to follow Brian to the parking lot where we drop off the rental car. Oh I did not really carry luggage more than 2 before but this time I did. My hand is full. Plus Mary just woke up from her 30 min nap. I am so thankful that Ben helped rolling our luggage... Plus we found a taxi that can bring Brian back to the ferry terminal quick. We just had 25 minutes spare time to do all things. But we were glad that we made it on time.

The ferry run from Bremerton to Seattle, approximately an hour crossing time. We got there around 855PM and grabbed a taxi going to Hilton Garden Inn where we spent one night.

Today, we woke up early at 430AM. Prep ourselves and the kids- load our luggage to the luggage cart. Huh! I was still sleepy- technically all of us. The kids were complaining that the sun is not up yet. All things flow smoothly. Airport were so busy even early in the morning. I regret that I did not send our stuff back home. We are paying 20$ per checked in luggage :(.

When we were boarding, we heard that a couple of seats were broken and was trying to fix it. That's why our boarding was being delayed. Oh well, we let the kids finished eating their oatmeal.

We got here in San Diego safely and drove around 40 min to get here at Riviera Oaks Resort, Ramona California. Took the kids to the pool. I have two fish kids LOL. We were also driving at the city. It is very small city but it is really relaxing though. I like to come back and do horseback riding :D when the kids are old enough to ride. Must be fun.

We spent our afternoon relaxing and catching sleep.