Welcome. I have great plans for you. I have plans for me to be a better, more patient mother. I have plans to get a little more exercise and am hopefully on my way to being more natural with my allergies. I'm excited for a new start and am thinking there are good things in store for us.
We did a little New Years Eve, but it wasn't totally intentional, just circumstantial. 'Cole, Tommy, Alex and Will came over to give Chelsi her Christmas presents. They weren't doing anything, so Nicole suggested a taco bar for dinner. So we invited Jay, Shannon and Sawyer, but only Jay and Sawyer could come. Of course, all were in bed before midnight, but we still had a nice time to catch up and it was so nice to see Jaemin and Sawyer playing with tattling or fighting. Apparently, Sawyer just told her dad that Jaemin is her best friend. Where do 3 year olds get this stuff?
Jaemin shared his Thomas with Sawyer.
Today, Chase started off the year with his braces. He only got 4 of his top brackets on and, of course, chose green and grey for his school colors. He will get the bottom 4 next week and then 4 more on top after a couple more permanent teeth come in. Very luckily, he lost a tooth on New Year's Eve and it turned out to be the one all of the orthodontists we saw and our dentist thought was fused to his jaw bone. So, that was one less tooth to pull later and best of all I could quit worrying about how much it was going to hurt Chase getting pulled! 3 more baby teeth need to come out, but he said they might come out in the next couple of months so we're giving them time. He also got spacers put in and bumps. Next week he'll get the rings put on his back teeth to hold them back. Chase said this afternoon he can already feel the pull on the one tooth on top that has crossed his bottom teeth. The bumps are put on his back teeth so that he cannot close his mouth all the way. That way when his cross-bite begins to fix they will clear each other as one goes back and the other one gets pulled forward. He said he's pretty sure this will completely fix him with no future treatment needed and in about 12 months. He will definitely be out of braces by 8th grade. I'm so glad we held off long enough to get in with this new guy. He found a different plan of treatment for us that was about 1/3 the cost of the original guy I went to (there have been 4!). He's fresh out of school and graduated pretty high in his class and Chase feels really comfortable with him.
Here's one of my baby boys in his green and grey!
And, knock on wood, using local bee honey has been really helping me. I'm off all allergy meds including my nose spray. It was the last I was willing to give up, but needed to try. 1 week of honey and cinnamon and I haven't had an asthma attack since I started. I don't know how or why, but I had actually been having them more frequently after getting off Advair (after it caused pneumonia and dysphonia) and I've been doing really well. Now the place that sells the honey is leaving me some beeswax to try. She said the pollen's more potent in it, so I'm going to take it easy at first because I get itchy after eating the honey, like all over my body. But it goes away and I'm hoping to build up immunity to it all and hopefully by the time the season really sets in I'll be ready to go and drug free! YAY!
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