Doctors and Dentists

I wish I'd had a photographer on Wednesday to capture the rapture of Doctor day. I dressed up in Ryan's scrubs and white coat and demonstrated how to use the tools of a doctor.

Each child got to hear his/her own heartbeat through the stethoscope and eager volunteers like Addi got to wear the blood pressure cuff and feel the squeeze. Ryann let us look into her ear with the otoscope, but then she wanted a turn to see too of course. The tuning fork was another fun one. Each preschooler had a turn to get it touched onto their head and hear the pitch.

Playtime is when I took the only picture of the day. Elizabeth set up an extensive retail business with no more than a plastic cash register and a lot of ingenuity and sold most of Quinn and Lane's possessions to the glad shoppers. She took pains to explain that her name was in fact Caralina, not Elizabeth.

For the letter S and number 19 we tried a less structured art project. The plan was to draw 19 snakes. It was interesting to see how each child reacted. Mason ended up drawing a striped snake, unlike any of the examples I had drawn, and it turned out he actually had drawn 19 stripes without realizing it! Elizabeth took care to make some detailed snakes and didn't mind if there weren't 19 by the end. Addi and Laine both surprise me at how they keep up with the kids who are much older.

At lunch Elizabeth had us guess what her first baby's name would be and surprise, it turned out to be Caralina. She is a good caretaker of the younger kids throughout all of our activities. I think she enjoys the roll of near-expert, and honestly, I enjoy her help and hilarious comments!


We read two books about dentists (and found out all about Thomas and Hyrum's cavities) and passed out the exciting gift bag from Quinn and Lane's nice dentist. Every girl was a good sport about the fact that some toothbrushes were pink and some were orange and "you get what you get".