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We've been to a lot of checkups lately, for teeth and eyes and bodies. Duchess still has one last baby tooth to lose before the braces period of her life can begin. Skipper has braces in her future, too, but given the rate of baby tooth loss, she'll probably be 30 before that rolls around. I have a new filling.

The big medical news from our flurry of checkups is that Skipper now has to patch her left eye every day for two hours, in the hopes that this will force her brain to start taking messages from her less competent right eye. She does not care for this at all, though her main concern is that people might see her. Her skin gets irritated by the adhesive, so she wears a cloth patch (Mark II - Cook is taking his role as patch prototyper very seriously) some of the time. I'll get a picture of that later.

Also, she wears this hat almost all the time now. The patch plus the hat make her look almost as eccentric as she actually is.