Back on Superbowl Sunday, about 30 minutes prior to kickoff, Martin did a face plant in the middle of the family room and broke one of his upper front teeth. It didn’t bleed much and he was fine after a few minutes. That week we took him to see his dentist who then referred us to a specialist. The specialist took some xrays and recommended that we do a root canal to reduce the risk of it abscessing. Since (at the time) he was under 2 years old, it require that he be put under general anesthesia at a hospital for the procedure. We scheduled it for the first week in May. Two things happened during this period.

The first was that we caught a lot of grief from some friends and family for performing a root canal on a two year old. This upset us because we obviously didn’t *want* to do this, but believed it was the right thing to do. More on this later.
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We are moving along nicely on the garage. The slab is now complete and we are ready to start framing. I’ve updated the project page with more details and photos.

I’ve just activated a new theme that I have been working on. There are probably going to be some broken links, bugs and some modifications (like the masthead) but I’m pretty pleased with it so far. I developed this one from the ground up.

A couple of features that I like:

• the images in the masthead change (with ajax)
• the font size can be changed by the viewer and stored in a cookie

Things I need to fix:

• the About link
• the fonts in the category box
• the masthead
• the number of tags in the tag cloud
• spacing for short block quotes
• gap at the top of the footer in IE
• comment count on pages
• 404 page
• add a decay to the masthead images
• fix previous and next entry links at bottom of the page

We finished the footing this week and the foundation walls should be completed by the end of the weekend. I’ve updated the Garage Project Page with photos and details.