brace for impact

anywhoo, i'd hate to bring up something as controversial as not liking fruit and ice cream together so i'll just talk about getting braces. for the record, i won't reject a fruit pie with a healthy scoop of ice cream, i just prefer fruit as fruit and ice cream as dessert. and nuts should be buried deep in the ground. don't get it twisted. 

now that reagan can easily get his haircut at a salon and his teeth cleaned at the dentist with little drama, it was time to embark on the next personal appearance frontier, BRACES. reagan's british ancestry was showing a little too strongly and he was constantly getting confused for mid 90s alan rickman. (reagan just came over my shoulder and read that sentence and said, "do you sometimes make jokes on your blog?" i try to, reagan, i try.) our orthodontist office is incredibly patient and kind, and based on what we just forked out, they can afford to be. dr white even assured us if reagan could not handle the orthodontics process and the braces needed to be removed, that he would refund the entire amount. they started small with only 4 brackets. it still took as long as it would take someone else to get a full mouth of braces, and there were plenty of breaks and a few tears(by me too!) but he persevered with those 4 little brackets. the technicians went above and beyond to soothe his anxieties and one even took a turn entertaining herschel so that i could focus on reagan. again, i hope to be that person for another mom when the opportunity presents itself. 

as we were driving back to school, 3 of the 4 brackets popped off and we had to turn around and head back. it was the office lunch hour at that point but the same great group came together and quickly reattached the brackets. i knew it was a successful visit when reagan asked his favorite conversation starter question, "dr white, when's your birthday?" for the record, it is in january. 

we went back the first week of june to add 4 more brackets and it was going so well that the technician was able to put ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the brackets on. the full mouth. 

reagan was cool as the other side of the pillow and i enjoyed listening to the office's late 90s pop station.

he is still mourning the loss of popcorn. i'm still mourning the loss of skin elasticity on my stomach.