My new life!

Now my sole purpose in life has been reduced to getting food un-stuck from between the roof of her mouth and the appliance!

The dentist warned her of the hazzards of doughy material, but Mikayla cannot live without her PB & J!!! So now Mommy gets to share in the enjoyment of the really GROSS side of a PB & J sandwich!!!

Mikayla gets a torture device!

I had to take Mikayla to the dentist since she was telling me her "new teeth" were hurting her. Diagnosis the little girl with the biggest mouth around, actually has a very small mouth!!! No more room for her bigger better teeth to grow into! So it was decided that it is time for her to start her ortho treatments beginning with a palletal expander. This is a metal appliance across the top of her mouth that is attached to her teeth. Three times a week I have to go in there and turn the key which in turns cranks the appliance wider forcing her jaw to expand and widen. At this point we have now had it on for three weeks, I can already see a difference in the way her teeth are now growing in straighter since there is actually room for them! The down side is it actually affects her speech! My little angel's sweet voice and pronounciation is gone!!! It is pretty hard to talk with a big metal thing in your tongues way. The dentist promised her speech will be back to normal when the appliance is removed in about 9 months!!!

She has been such a trooper with all of this, the first noght was bad since her mouth was sore from all the activity and placement of the appliance, then the next night we had to turn the key for the first time, there were tears and a MAJOR guilt trip on "how could you hurt your little princess like that". Those were her actual words! But since then it is no big deal!

BIG announcement!!! Mikayla has officially grown up!!! She quit sucking her thumb and twirling her hair a couple months ago!!! SO sad to see the cuteness of her de-stressing herself with her thumb and her hair, since that was a sure sign if she was tired or if something was bothering her...The thumb would make it's way to her mouth and automatically her other hand would make its way up to her lil piggy tails. Every night after she was asleep I would have to go in and untangle her hand from her hair! I wonder how she puts herself to sleep now???

Mikayla and one of her many collections!

I think just about anyone with a little girl has been exposed to these cute little animal toys. Mikayla is no exception, she loves these lil animals, and loves to get her daddy in there playing with her animals too!

Nothing better on a Saturday morning than teaching your little pets their Spanish abc's!