After Monday's drama (on top of last week's camp performance), I thought this week would be tough. But Rita had a great week, and we got many good reviews about Rita's helpfulness and politeness from the head counselor. I'm not sure if the daily "if you are good, we'll have ice cream tonight" positive reward method (aka bribe) worked or she just had a counselor which kept her entertained / focused or something but it's nice not to have to deal with naughty behavior!

In other Rita news, we went to the dentist on Thursday because she's been having troubles with things getting stuck in her back molars. Upon closer examination, I noticed that part of one of her molars is missing (and was discolored). The dentist took xrays, and started to drill to fill the cavity. But he stopped and said that the tooth was moving around too much ... and he will need to extract it. We'll go back next week to do that. We are kind of annoyed because this was the tooth that our previous dentist worked on (if you can say that) in February. Needless to say we have moved to a new dentist and we are down one baby molar to show for it.

Lena arrived on Wednesday and things are going well. I'll save that for another post. I'll just say that it's strange to "parent" a 16-year old. I don't think I'm old enough (but I am)! LOL