Birthday fun and not-so-fun

Kyra turned 17 this week– wow. Yesterday she had a little birthday party for her closest friends. In addition to watching The Princess Bride and eating pizza, it involved some kind of card game that included a lot of slapping each other and screaming.

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Yeah, it’s really something to have four teenage girls yelling for an hour.

Then today, to finish celebrating her birthday, she had all four of her wisdom teeth pulled. She was pretty loopy coming back from the oral surgeon, and promptly flopped down on the couch and went to sleep.

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Right now she’s not feeling too bad, but I know later today she’ll be pretty unhappy. Fortunately we’ll get this whole thing out of the way before a few more family trips and the start of school…