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Life {Style}Nervous and DONE!
Posted on June 16, 2011
Well it went way better than expected! She just finished at the brushing station and they called us back and got started. She is so tough and brave. I probably would have cried had I been her age because of nervousness. But she hoped right up there and got it done. She had a moment of panic when she went to rinse and realized she couldn’t swallow very well. Eating is a trick and I suspect she will shed a few pounds during this process. 
6-8 months with the top one and then she will get the bottom one. I don’t want to wish time away but for her sake I’m already looking forward to the end of this journey. 
{Nervous} I can read the nervousness and fear on her face. It was all I could do not to go get her.
{Hesitant} for some reason it’s a personal thing and she doesn’t want to show it.
{Resigned} when she realized I wasn’t going anywhere til she showed me.
Bad Mommy, good Mommy?
Posted on June 15, 2011
Today my little girl gets upper and lower palette expanders put on and I am torn. She cry’s every time she thinks about it. I feel so bad. I tell her that she is perfect just the way she is but yet I’m trying to change her physical appearance. Isn’t that lying? Do I really think she is perfect if I’m trying to change her? Does she realize this? Does it make her sad? Her teeth are shifting at an alarming rate and I don’t want her to be embarrassed at her smile when she gets older. Right now she doesn’t realize how bad they look and doesn’t care. I see and know how fast they have moved in the past 2-3 months and worry about how much they will move in the next 2-3 months. And yeah, deep inside I think if I admitted it her teeth do bother me. They don’t embarrass me but it bothers me because it does make her less than perfect physically and it is something I can fix. I am a fixer. If there is a remote chance that it can be fixed, I will try. We can save her some pain and time in braces if we start now. Does that make me a bad Mommy for wanting to fix this or a good Mommy for fixing her smile for her? Sigh. Some things are hard to figure out…
Summer is here!
Posted on June 14, 2011
and we’re so excited!! Is there anything more fun that staying outside all day, running around bare foot and playing water? If you’re a little boy there isn’t. Breckan enjoyed playing in the water last week and then we had his little cousins over for a water shoot. I think they all enjoyed it.
