The Best Orthodontist Ever.

We have the best orthodontist.

And we had better feel that way since as of right now we can say that 5 of our 6 kids will for sure be spending abundant money time with him.

He better be the best.

He is.

On top of how good he is with their teeth (or lack there of in the case of a few of them who decided to not grow a few of their adult teeth at all), and the fun games and prize opportunities he has within his office, every summer our orthodontist hosts a Cowabunga Bay evening for all of his patients and their families.

We get the whole place to ourselves, there are more prizes, and the "extra rides" or open and running free.  Or at least free to us.

Above: Brynn with Sean and Casidee with Jayme.

Above: Tayler doing her backflips

Above: Cali pulled off double back flips.

The night was actually a bit stormy.  The sky was overcast and the wind picked up which chilled us to the bone.  We spent a lot of time drowning each other in the lazy river because the water was warmer there.  But there's no doubt about it, we have a cool orthodontist.

If you're looking for an orthodontist you should check him out HERE and HERE.

And if you go to him, make sure and tell him that Casidee and Jayme sent you.

Jayme's braces and other thoughts that are neither here nor there

Jayme started her braces.

If you ask her to show them to you, she'll hiss at you like a vampire, baring her teeth.

We're a little bit into vampires at our house.

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Over the weekend I may or may not have eaten an entire box of mint ice cream sandwiches.

... all by myself.

Listening to this for a half hour straight was enough to drive me bonkers:

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Sorry to our neighbors for that.
That ball just did not want to come off.
I blame it on West's dad, Mike.

We're a little off on our kid schedule right now with the winding down of summer, which left us with no kids on a Monday night.

The Man took me to the new Mexican restaurant that's been on my hit list.
Can we say new favorite restaurant?
They had an amazing guacamole sauce to go with the chips, and I got to order a stuffed avacado.

Chicken, cheese, and avacado? Sign me up.

Yesterday I pulled Casidee's class schedule from the school district's website.
Like it or not, Mom, Jr. High is happening.

Except in our neigborhood it's a middle school.

The girl is taking Chinese. 
(How am I supposed to help her with homework questions???)

After writing this post, and letting some people know about it, I received this in my facebook message box:

which is hysterical.

Does anyone else have that problem?  I know that one time I posted this picture of Cali and her ripped pants but I hardly think that qualifies...

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crazy hair and a bunch of talk about teeth

Crazy hair day at school is one of my favorite days of school.

Actually, it wasn't just crazy hair day, it was just plain ol' crazy day.  Which meant the outfit had to be crazy too.

I think The Circus did pretty good with that.  Except Cas, who's too cool to be uncool.

The only downfall to crazy day is when it also happens to fall on the same day as your dentist appointment and your mom has gets to take you out in public looking all... crazy.

You get a lot of looks when that happens.

We've been having a lot happening lately as far as teeth are concerned.  We are becoming the orthodontist's favorite family.  5 out of 6 kids need him.  Aren't we lucky?  Actually, isn't he lucky?  We've just ensured his retirement.

Cas just had her last three baby teeth pulled to start prepping for the beginning of her work.

She's missing five adult teeth.  Yup.  Five of them.  Brynn and Cali are missing one adult tooth only, but it happens to be one right up front next to the big teeth.  Apparently this is a hereditary trait, and being as I have all of my adult teeth, we can only blame it on my mother who was adopted.  We have no medical history so sometimes fun things like this like to jump out at us and take us by surprise.

Cas will be starting her treatment at the orthodontist this week.  Brynn and Cali have awhile before they start, thankfully.  Let me pay off one child before another starts, please.

Though Jayme's getting her stuff done at the orthodontist right now too.  She started a month or two ago.  She and Sean got The Man's little mouth so room needs to be made to fit all of their teeth in. 

Jayme has this awesome contraption in her mouth right now:

And this week we've now added this beauty to her bottom teeth:

After the orthodontist made sure it fit correctly, Jay and I left the orthodontist's office.  Once upon a time I had a retainer to help with a way-ward tooth that my incoming wisdom teeth had pushed out a little bit so I understand a little how this retainer thing goes.

"Hey Jayme, now your going to thay you etheth like thith (say your S's like this)."  I looked at her and giggled.
She looked at me, confused.  "My etheth?"  And as her slurred "s" came out she looked at me in shock.  "Oh my goth! My etheth!"  And she covered her mouth with her hand in horror staring at me with big eyes.

Don't worry Jay, you just need to get used to where the retainer is. 

She practiced all the way home and is doing pretty good with it now.

A random thing: we saw this truck while we were on our way home

How very awesome is that?