The Daily Dish has been posting reader emails reporting on their " view from the shutdown ." If you think this doesn't affect you, or if you know all too well how bad this is, take a look at the growing collection of poignant stories. No one is in this alone except for the nutjobs in the House. I decided to email Andrew with my own view. I plan to send a similar letter to my congressperson. Dear Andrew, I am a professor of astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The CfA houses one of the largest, if not the largest collection of PhD astronomers in the United States, with over 300 professional astronomers and roughly 100 doctoral and predoctoral students on a small campus a few blocks west of Harvard Yard. Under the umbrella of the CfA are about 20 Harvard astronomy professors, and 50 tenure-track Smithsonian researchers. A large fraction of the latter are civil servants currently on furlough and unable to come to work. In total, 147 FTEs
An apple a day keeps the dentist away! Or so they say. Too bad we found out he has 3 cavities. This is our bad since we didn't start brushing his teeth regularly until it was too late. You live and learn, right?
Owen: Tooth brushing king. Note two-fist technique. Plaque doesn't stand a chance!
Owen posing for Calvin Klein. Owen wears big-boy underwear almost exclusively these days, requiring a diaper only for number 2 and bedtime. Almost there...
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Don't let the dentist put a guilt trip on you. The same thing happened with Lindsay - and the dentist said, "You mean you haven't been brushing her teeth?" I freaked- but when I told her regular dentist, he said her teeth close together and she probably had a high acid count in her saliva. And she never had another cavity. Don't let them get to you!
Cindy
no guilt,cause until you could hold a toothbrush and do something valuable with it, it was not a regular routine to have much tooth brushing going on..and you guys had different tooth issues, very few cavities...
Now Owen looks like he can get into the battle of the tooth decay..love the crown prince look.
mom
Great work with the toilet training - sounds like you might be spared the joys of batch diapering when your second boy arrives.
Regarding cavities, I have been brushing Calliani's teeth during her bath for a while now. But I'm not sure how much good it will do... the only children's toothpaste available at our pharmacy here in Egypt was labeled 'cola.' Hm.