Brace Yourself, Chapter 2

I got my bottom braces on yesterday and immediately I could feel how tight the wire was. I am suppsed to be on a liquid diet for 24 hours but if it's anything like last time, it will be a week before I can chew up a steak. My cheeks are getting a lot more raw than they did with the uppers. I feel like I bite my cheek more often. She had problems getting the brackets all on and the wire through because my bottom teeth are cramped and two of them are very crooked. I look forward to this being a little easier and more importantly to getting my teeth fixed so I can get these braces off.

I had a major blessing yesterday when I went to get these on. Chris has been doing a little computer work for them. They usually just take the money they owe Chris off my bill. It works great! He had done some work about a month ago and it didn't come off the bill this time, but completely separate you have to pay an additional amount when they put the tops and bottoms on. So, after I got the bottom braces on yesterday, I went to pay my monthly bill and for the bottom braces and she said I didn't have to pay for the bottoms. She said her paperwork showed they were already paid. I assume it has to do something with the work he did, but we didn't think the work equaled out to that much. We're so thankful, though! Next year I'm going to have to have my wisdom teeth pulled to have some room for all the movement in my teeth and it's going to be expensive. Any money we can save on the braces can help with that. Plus, Christmas is coming up and I normally have half my shopping done by now. I don't this year. God always seems to provide and always at the right time. It's God good!

Eli Say...

Eli has started to say a few words. He says, Mom, Dad, hat, hot, ball, and maybe one or two others. He has always communicated very well, but lately since he realized he can grunt and point he's started doing that more and I don't really care for it. Chris was feeding him a rice krispie treat the other night after dinner. Before he would give him a bite he would say, Eli say...love or Eli say...please. It was so funny because there are certain words like please, thank you, yes, and no that he just signs and I'm not sure if we'll ever get him to say those words. He laughs at himself when we get excited if what he says sounds similar to what we asked him to say. I'm sure if you had us on video trying to get him to say words and then getting excited and watching his reaction, it would be quite humorous.

Past That

So we might actually be past the sickness round in our house. At least, we're at the end of it. We went through quite the battles here over the last month. We just ended with 3 of us having severe congestion and winter colds, even though it isn't even winter yet. And, now, Eli is getting 3 teeth at one time. Poor kid! I know it's just part of getting bigger and older, but you know it can't be fun. I am experiencing all kinds of fun pain with braces and so I can relate at least a little.

I just finished an afternoon of Quickbooks for NTCP and some laundry and now I'm back off to church for the evening. I gotta figure out what I'm going to fix for dinner when we get home. No time for that, now, though...Eli is waking and needs some attention before I undress and redress him for church and stick him in the car for 35 minutes. Every day is a great day! I know that sounds sarcastic but I don't know what I would do with a different life. I love mine very much and everyone in it.