So, I have figured out now that if I am really excited about something, later that day and into the next day; I “poop out.” A prime example of this is Thursday. Sean got his braces off.
I was so excited for this to happen in the days leading up to the appointment! My friends and my Mom warned me to not be so excited because I would, “poop out.” Sean said that I would fall asleep on the way home. My mom came with us to drive just in case.
Well, he was right. I, “pooped out” on the way home! I was so extremely excited to be there and my Mom and I could sit on the couch in the back to watch him get them off. My Mom sat on the couch and she just put me close to it. The tech taking his braces off was named Holly. I told her that it wasn’t this exciting when I got my braces off 23 years ago and that I was so excited! I asked her some questions about his retainer use after his braces are off.
It wasn’t until she was finished and Sean was in the bathroom that she came over to the couch and sat next to my Mom who was sleeping. She tapped her leg, woke her up, and handed her a clipboard and started explaining the things she needed to sign when my mom looked at her and pointed to me. My mom told her that I was the, “responsible party.”
Holly turned and looked at me and asked, “Aren’t you his sister?” I laughed and told her that I was his mom. She gave me the paperwork to sign and I signed it. I think I was so excited about this day because his teeth have come a very long way!
Sean didn’t want me to take these pictures but I assured him that it would be a nice comparison when his teeth are straight. In this picture, I remember telling him to, “Show me his teeth!” I took this picture on June 13, 2015.
This picture was taken July 20, 2015. His vampire teeth had already started to move! These are the only two pictures that he let me take. I’m sure if he was a girl, he would’ve let me take more. I wanted to make a Flipagram of the progression. I just have before and after.
He’s had braces for three years. He started seeing the Orthodontist when he was seven. He needed mouth surgery to get four teeth pulled before he got his braces on and surgery after the braces were on to expose teeth that were below his gum line on his lower jaw.
He humored me to take this one picture before he went out because I told him that as a single mom, paying for this all by myself, this moment makes me really proud! He said that he hasn’t done much to be proud of then. I told him that this was not the proudest moment I have had because of him but the proudest moment I have had because of me!
Also, I think it takes me TWO days to fully recover after I, “Poop out” now! #MSsucks!
His teeth look great!! Great job mom!!!