Last Tuesday

Last week Lauren had her piano lessons--she started in February. She is doing so well with them just like I knew she would. Now, if we could just find a really cheap, yet nice piano to buy. We have a keyboard and I'm grateful for that, but having a piano would be better. Some day..... Anyways, her piano teacher is so nice and only lives literally 5 minutes down the street from us. There will be a recital June 1st.

After piano we went to the orthodontist so Evan could get his bottom braces on. He is doing really well with these. He's never complained of hurting or pain, just some soreness, but with both of his top and bottoms, after 2-3 days he's eating regular food again. He is so happy to have them. He's had his tops for 9 weeks now and his front tooth gap is already closed and his teeth are definitely straightening out allowing room for those teeth that haven't come through yet. They also added springs to his top wire which will allow some adjusting room for when those eye teeth grow in.

Braces

Three weeks ago Evan got top teeth braces. They got put on in the morning and by the afternoon one bracket had popped off his tooth. I called the orthodontist and the receptionist asked if it was bothering him. I said no, so they did not want him to come back in to get it fixed until 4 days from then. It wasn't hurting him or anything but the bracket started swinging around on the wire and we just thought that was weird so I didn't even call back, we just went straight to the orthodontist and I was going to make them fix it. As soon as we walked in, the receptionist was actually glad to see us because she said as soon as she got off the phone with me she felt she should have told us to come on in. (Well, she could have called me back...but anyways, I'm glad I decided to just show up). They said the reason the bracket popped off the tooth was because that particular tooth had so much pressure on it. Another lady bonded it back on and we think she didn't bend back the end of the wire because Evan started noticing it poking him in the cheek. Once we got home, we fiddled around for a while trying to figure out how to get the wax on so it wouldn't rub so bad. Once we finally figured that out, and after two days of Motrin which is what the orthodontist told us to do, he was feeling a lot better.

I am happy to say that he is doing great. After those first couple of days, he has not had anything bothering him since. He is still adjusting to figuring out how to chew certain foods, and is doing a great job obeying what foods not to eat, but he sure misses his favorite dessert--popcorn. The lady who put his braces on was very impressed with what a good job he had been doing keeping his teeth clean, and they get rewards based on if he can keep his teeth that way. Even though I never had braces, the kids who did when I was Evan's age hated them and got teased a lot. Evan has had a great attitude through the whole ordeal and is just so happy that his teeth will be corrected. He says if anybody makes fun of him, we will just simply shrug and think about how nice his teeth will be once the braces come off. Just the other night he wanted me to look at his teeth because the gap between his front teeth was already closing and he was so excited! I never took a before pic of his teeth, but I found one from a couple of months ago, and then in the next pic you can see his teeth with the gap closing in. In 5 weeks he goes back to get braces put on his bottom teeth.