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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Wednesday
Nov162016

Braces (boy #2)

DateWednesday, November 16, 2016 at 01:10PM

This morning Micah and I headed to Dr. Ebert's office and Micah got the first part of his braces:

He was happy to pose with me for a before picture when we got there, thought he looked awesomely weird with the blue stuff they "painted" on his teeth initially (it got cleaned off in short order and he was NOT a fan of the mouth expander thingee), and held Sven (my wonderful knitted silver fox scarf) for moral support toward the end...

Unlike when Asher first started, Micah got all of the top braces along with two on the bottom for the elastics...trying to help pull down the canines. This will be our first experience with bands but so far, so good. Micah's trying to see it as a way to strengthen his talking muscles, lol. Fingers crossed that things go as smoothly as they did with Asher's braces. :) 

Whew.

AuthorAmanda | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

Ugh! I didn't like the mouth expander either! Hope the bands aren't too uncomfortable. I didn't have to wear those even though they put the hook braces in just in case. Hated those as they chewed up the insides of my cheeks every time they put new wires on. I feel for him!

November 17, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterNan

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