Americanuck

On another note, when does the PAUSE happen in perimenopause? The way I’m flying through these eggs I should be through it all by now. I’m cranking up production baby, it’s like puberty all over again.

We are heading into what I guess you could call the home stretch in Sean’s adventure in dentistry; his jaw alignment surgery.

The main wire on his braces has been replaced with surgical one that has small hooks to hold the heavy elastics that will help to hold his jaw in a fixed position and allow for more speedy healing of the surgical site. The entire operation will take place in his mouth through the spot where his lower wisdom teeth used to be.

He has come a long way, his teeth are very straight now, he just needs to have a bit more adjustments done after the surgery that will give him “lip competence” The Ortho feels it could be anywhere from 6-12 months more of braces and then he’s ready for the retainer.

I am going to be off work the week of and the two weeks following his surgery, Tom is off with me the last couple of weeks which is great. Fortunately Tom is also off the day of the surgery and the day Sean is released from the hospital so he will be with me to help me out (read: find the hospital, it is one I’m not familiar with) with Sean, I know he’s going to be in pain.

Here are his teeth as of today.

Just in the time he started with the expander he has grown up so much!

Well the long weekend is coming to a close and the start of a new school year is nigh. We found out today from one of his friends that Sean was supposed to have received his course list and schedule in the mail last week and so far, nadda. The poor kid is a bit worried about what to do tomorrow so I told him to go to the office and explain the situation.

Not receiving mail for long periods is nothing new; our mailman has supposedly had issues getting in our building in the past (Canada Post claimed it was he was ‘locked out’) but pfftt whatever, the regular guy probably went on vacation and they didn’t have anyone cover his route. I reported the last incident because I was concerned about mail theft, we never go more than a day or so without at least junk and we had no mail for five days in a row.

We managed to find Sean four pairs of jeans (yay!) and a bunch of t-shirts, new gym shorts and a new pair of runners so clothes-wise he’s set for, a while anyway. The jeans are all a 32 in length (men’s waist size 28/29 so a belt is involved for sure). They are long but not that long. I wonder how long before he outgrows them?

He’s a size friggin’ 10 mens shoe now. He’s officially beat his brother in shoe size. Sean has always had huge feet even since he was a baby. Even though he’s always been on the shorter size I always figured he would be like a puppy and grow into his feet.

Man, my last baby is starting Grade 9. I’m feeling old!