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Orthodontics – The 2nd journey begins #LaurenGoFar #LaurenOrtho

March 19, 2019 by Wendy S

Our children were destined to need braces. Both Craig and I had braces when we were teenagers.

In April 2018, Rachel started her orthodontics journey. The estimated time for her treatment was one year. She had a bit of crowding that needed to be fixed and a little bit of an overbite. Dr. Bozek put on Rachel’s braces on April 18th and the current estimation is May 2019 to have them removed. Seems like just yesterday she was losing her first tooth!

Lauren was told that she needed to wait a year; she had to lose the rest of her baby teeth. In November, Lauren lost her last tooth. We called Dr. Bozek and set up an appointment. 

March 11th, the day after Lauren’s 12th birthday, we met with Dr. Bozek again. They took new x-rays and photos. They came up with a plan.

The plan.

Lauren’s treatment plan is going to take 2 years. Her little mouth has so much going on in there. 

The teeth on the top need the most treatment. The molars need to be moved outward. This allows more space to move the teeth at the front so that they are straight.

You can see the top molars on the right side are inside the molars on the bottom.

To move the molars outwards, they will be installing a pallet expander. 

But before they can do that, they had to put in spacers. These do exactly what they sound like they do. They create space between the molars. They need this space to put bands around her teeth that hold the expander.

Step 1: Spacers

Yesterday was the first step in her orthodontics journey. Lauren was nervous, but she climbed into the chair. She was in the middle chair and she carefully watched the two girls in the chairs beside her: one was getting fitted for her retainer and the other was getting a mould. Lauren was going to have to do this as well.

She said the mould material tasted like marshmallows and that it wasn’t that bad.

Orthodontics - Spacers

With Lauren’s dental history (6 cavities when she was only 6), I wasn’t surprised when the ortho technician told me that she flinched a little when she went to put the spacer in. Lauren is very hesitant when to comes to any dental stuff as she’s worried that it will hurt like getting cavities filled.

In the end, they were done and she was excited that they were turquoise. (I’ll post again about why.)

Filed Under: family, Life, peanut, teeth Tagged With: Bozek, Lauren, ortho, orthodontics, peanut, teeth

Music from my youth has been Minion-ized!

July 31, 2017 by Wendy S

I’ve written before that I love when Sesame Street brings in celebrities and sing their songs with a bit of a twist. Animated movies, in this case, the Minions, do similar things.


Driving home from camp this weekend, I was enjoying singing along to SIRUS 90s on 9. 90s on 9 @ mapsgirl.ca

“I Swear” by Boys to Men comes on and I chuckle.

“We had so many boy bands when I was your age,” I tell the girls.

I sing the verse and when the chorus comes on, Rachel exclaims, “Hey Lauren, this is the Minon’s Underwear song!”

Minion Underwear @ mapsgirl.ca

Really?  

Yep. I know the Minions are everyone’s favourites, but my girls love them.  Lauren even went as Agnus for Halloween last year… complete with fluffy unicorn.

For your listening enjoyment, I give you the Minions!

Minion Underwear Song

 

And for more fun… the lyrics:

Ah , Laopoda. Talachi , Matol , Lina.
Ah, Labadi , Hochi, La , No chaaa. Wu pla na chii , leh ji

Fuh pa pu seh , La ma nii

Underwear! La kah reh , Li rey wee , Gih leh bya

Mah ke reh , Underwear!

La pah kreh , leh gua ri , Teh lah keh , Lah peh reh. Underwear!

Lah ceh peep, li bee the , ee leh gua. Lah gua rehh

Ley show lee leh duu , Lah keh rey dee zuu

Bleh ahh boh dee zu re kah , Zohh reh kah laa ,

UNDERWEAR ~ Lah du. Leh ah mo dee underwear.

Filed Under: Life, munchkin, peanut Tagged With: funny, minion, music

Let The Summer Begin!

July 7, 2017 by Lauren Kreativ

My favourite part about the summer is spending time with friends and family! In the summer we go camping in our travel trailer. It’s called the #SilvaBulletRV.

A post shared by bigdaddykreativ (@bigdaddykreativ) on Sep 12, 2016 at 1:57pm PDT

Camping is so much fun because we get to see our camping family. We have become very close with some friends at our campground. They are just like part of our family. I am so excited for when we go to Ohio because I will get to ride in a go-cart by myself! Ohio is going to be so much fun because we are going with our camping family. I am so excited!

A post shared by Wendy {mapsgirl} (@mapsgirl) on Jul 23, 2016 at 11:48am PDT

l love to go to the park and play with my friends at camp. Going swimming at the campground’s pool is so much fun. I get to make big splashes when I jump in! Swimming is the best this year because I can go to the pool with friends, and not have to have Mom and Dad come with me. I never swim alone, because it is not safe.

A post shared by Wendy {mapsgirl} (@mapsgirl) on May 29, 2016 at 10:16am PDT

Summer break is awesome because we don’t have to do any school work! Lots of popsicles and freezies for all those hot days. Even if it rains, we still have fun! I like to ride my bike and go on bike rides with my friends!

A post shared by Wendy {mapsgirl} (@mapsgirl) on Aug 10, 2016 at 10:39am PDT

Last year in the summer was lots of fun. We went to Universal Studios! I went on a few of the roller coasters!

We went to 3 campgrounds on the way to Orlando. While in Florida we stayed at 2 campgrounds. We stayed at 3 more campgrounds on the way home. We were so excited to go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It was amazing! We tried some Bertie Botts every Flavour Beans, Butterbeer, Frozen Butterbeer, and Chocolate Frogs. We had lots of fun at Universal Studios.

I cannot wait for the rest of the summer. We have a lot planned. It’s going to be so much fun!

TTFN,
Lauren

Filed Under: Blog, Camping, friends, fun, Life, peanut, RVing, Travel, Vacation Tagged With: camping, kreativcamper, lauren silva, RVing, summer, swimming, travel trailer, vacation

Stitches…again! Past experiences don’t always make parenting easier

October 4, 2013 by Wendy S

Do you remember that?  I posted that on May 24, 2009.  Lauren was just over 2 years old.

This was yesterday:

2 more stitches.

I told her that 4 in 4 years is plenty and I really don’t want to have to do this again!

And I think after the whole ordeal, she’ll remember what happened yesterday a lot more than what happened when she was 2.


9:00am

Craig got the call from the school office.  Lauren got hurt on the playground from a swing and was cut pretty badly.  They were concerned about the amount of bleeding and thought she might need to go to the hospital.

Craig was at Ontario Place in Toronto covering the Ken Block media event that was sponsored by Ford Canada so he wasn’t going to be able to leave. Craig called me to let me know what happened and that I needed to go immediately.  I was part of a training exercise, but was able to quickly make arrangements for someone else to help out and I was on my way back to Oakville.

10:00am

I arrived at school to find Lauren with ice on her face and blood all over her clothes.  The principal and vice principal told me what happened:  She was pushing her stuffed bear on the swing and when the swing came back she wasn’t paying attention and it hit her in the face.

Off to the hospital we went.  We got there about 10:20am.  She was triaged by the triage nurse and doctor and then we were sent to the registration desk.  Once she was checked in, we were told to go to the RAZ section.

10:30am

I just looked up what RAZ means: Rapid Assessment Zone.  They need to rename that because that’s a big lie!  We sat waiting for 2 hours before she got moved to a bed.  She did surprisingly well while we waited. We talked about what was going to happen when she saw the doctor. I wanted her to be prepared and I couldn’t lie to her when she asked if it would hurt.

12:30pm

We were moved to a curtained-off bed so that we could wait some more.  While waiting, I realized that we were in the exact same bed as the last time she got stitches.

Finally the doctor and nurse checked her out.  He ruled out a head injury and then talked about her lip.  We had 2 options: do nothing or stitch it up.  “Nothing” would have left a big scar so we went with stitches.

I figured that giving her the needle to freeze her lip was a huge struggle, the actual stitches would be even harder.  I was right.  I held her down, the nurse held her head and the doctor stitched.  The first one was the worst.  While he was doing the 2nd one, the first one ripped out because she moved.  After that one was in, he re-evaluated the location of the next stitch and only ended up needing 2 stitches.

2:00pm

We were walking out of the hospital and saw Craig.  Because I didn’t have very good cell service, I couldn’t keep him as up-to-date as I wish that I could have. Lauren decided to drive home with him and I picked up popsicles.

She had ice cream and popsicles and watched TV until Rachel came home.  The 2 of them played quietly until it was time to to go to choir.  We wanted Lauren to stay home, but she’s so determined. It was good that she wanted to just pick up and keep going.


Lauren is spending today at home with Craig. We wanted to give her lip a chance to start healing a bit before she starts back into her regular routine.

Emotionally and physically tired, I am back at work.  Yesterday’s events are still spinning through my head.  It’s very hard to stay calm when you’re stressed and all you want to do is grab her, hold her and cry “My poor baby!”  Plus the physical strength required to hold down a writhing, angry, scared 6 year old is more that I imagined.

I stand firm on my recommendation about not being the parent who has to be with the child getting stitches. As much as last time should have prepared me for what was going to happen yesterday, I’ll never get used to it.  I pray that there won’t be a third time.


Filed Under: Life, parenting, peanut

the bond between sisters (or the one where I just want her to turn her alarm off)

May 24, 2013 by Wendy S

5:00 am – Alarm goes off. I hit snooze.
5:09 am – Alarm goes off. I hit snooze.

I do this 5 more times until I finally decide to drag myself out of bed at 5:47am. Yep. Now I’m running late.

I’m not a morning person. I don’t like getting out of bed.  And I don’t like getting out of bed that early.  Funny thing (or maybe not so funny), I have to do this every morning.  I’m not always late.  But repeatedly hitting the snooze button is common.

Start working my way through my routine and I hear Rachel’s alarm going off.

“Why is her alarm going off at 6am? She doesn’t have to be up until 7”

I keep getting ready (remember…I’m late)

I look in my bed. Nope she’s not there.  Right, I sent her back to her room in the middle of the night.

Gotta get dressed.

“Ok, kid.  Turn the alarm off already.  Is 6:09 am and this is annoying now!”

I laugh. She’s like me. She can sleep through an alarm.  I’m impressed…a little.

Strangely, it’s not waking anyone up.

I make my way down the hall to get her to turn it off.  She’s not in her bed.  I turn the alarm off.

Back to my room.  “How did I miss her?  When did she crawl back in my bed?”

Not there.

I go back down the hall to check to see if Lauren is in her bed.

This is what I find….

How can you be annoyed at this?!?!  I love these two so much!!

With a full heart, I make my way downstairs and off to work.  Happy Friday!!

Do your kids do things that surprise your every once in a while??

Filed Under: munchkin, peanut

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