M is on a temporary 8 weeks with no orthodontia anything glued to his teeth. B has made 3 batches of peanut brittle since last Thursday, and today I popped the rest of the strawberry popcorn the boys grew two years ago. It all popped, but there wasn’t quite enough for snack, so I also popped grocery store popcorn. The strawberry popcorn was pink and white, the regular gold and creamy yellow. I’d have taken a picture, but they ate it too fast.
M asked for hot tea with milk and sugar – it was 1 degree F outside today at breakfast, we have ice on the inside of the windows. though my thermostat tells me it is 64 degrees in the house (away from the windows ;-)
M gets pallet extenders in March, so we’ll all eat the sticky, crunchy, hard snacks while we can. I think I’ll go get more tea too, I’m cold in between my shoulder blades.
Brrr. Palate extenders. Ouch.
what are we in for?
We went through palate splitters with Ruth. It is something I had to have my husband do. Men seem to handle it better. It involved a key inserted in the hole in the hardware and turned the prescribed number of times on the prescribed days. Ruth got so she did it herself. Much better. Sore a little at first and then not much fanfare. Do the job and get it over with was Ruth’s mindset. She was a little older.
So far M has been so calm about everything – he even fell asleep in the dentist’s chair once. He really likes the staff at his orthodontist’s office too. We’ll see how it goes in 7 weeks, meanwhile, we are all enjoying the sticky/sweet/crunchy contraband – but we have been trained to brush our teeth well afterwards – I guess M’s teeth have been good for the rest of us!
He may really like the process then. The hardest part for both my children to deal with was the soreness after each change. I learned to keep soft foods around. I am afraid to admit that my children did not adhere to the food limits that the orthodontist put on them. They were teenagers and I explained they were the ones that would have a life of stained teeth if they did not brush properly and then left it up to them. I chose not to fight that battle. Ruth did well with the process, Blair not so much.