Braces

June 11, 2019 is a day that Josh and Peter might be happy to wish never happened. Both of them got braces that day. Josh will likely have his for 18 months, while Peter is looking at 2 years. Josh gets to wear rubber bands on his teeth, and Peter has an expander on his top jaw that we get to turn with a key every day from almost a month to widen the jaw. Meanwhile they are learning new ways to eat, what foods they should avoid entirely, and which they merely have to cut into bite sized pieces before they put them in their mouths. 

Peter, who wasn't eager to have photographic evidence of the braces, is mourning that his vampire fangs will be pulled back in line with his other teeth. The baby canines didn't come out, so the adult teeth pushed out in front of them, higher in the gum... they look very much like vampire fangs. We finally had to have the dentist pull the baby teeth out before he got the braces. You can see the crooked teeth in this picture taken last year... Anyway, for better or for worse we have begun the process of straightening them.