We have had some pretty big steps taken by young men in our household recently!
(Anything in the last 2 months is recently to me.)
Sam got braces.
It is not that we are freaking out about the aesthetics of his merely 8 year-old smile, it is that he had a pretty bad cross bite that needed braces, in addition to a palate expander. He's been very stalwart about the braces. They're no prob! The palate expander, on the other hand, has us all longing for ear plugs at the dinner stable...er, table. *Ssssshllurp!*
Joey lost his first regularly-scheduled tooth.
He is eating gingerly these days, with 2 more wiggly teeth getting ready to launch.
Adam learned to pee into an empty water-bottle.
It was an emergency...a DIRE emergency. We were STUCK in a traffic jam, surrounding by witnesses, and the pitch of his whimpering warned me that we only had about 30 more seconds to disaster. What was a mommy to do? He didn't spill one drop--what a champ!
No mommy could be more proud.
Be sure to expand this picture, because it's a great one.
