Pictures of the past three days

We have been in and out of the orthodontist, periodontist and the surgery center for the past three days. Mariah got a palate expander to help correct her cross-bite. I got dental implants, bone grafts and a skin graft from my palate and Trent got tubes put in his ears.

Here is what the palate expander looks like in the roof of her mouth. We have a "key" that we turn two times a day. It moves about 1mm every time we turn it. Don't worry it's not painful.

Here is Trent helping turn the key. He loves to help out in any way he can.

Here is what my mouth looked like the day of the surgery. My left side (your right side) is where I had the most work done which included my skin graft.

You can't really tell but on my left side (your right side) is where they took some skin from my palate for my implant. Believe it or not I haven't had any pain whatsoever! Praise God!!

Here is my sweet Trent sitting in the floor waiting to be called back. The gown cleaning people only brought pink gowns and they had all boys having surgery today and they all had on pink gowns. Trent was only happy for about 15 minutes while we were waiting. It is probably because he didn't have breakfast! He didn't wake up from the anesthesia too well. He was kicking and screaming and flopping around like a pancake. The nurses said it was very normal for kids to wake up like that and when we walk out the door he would be just fine and he was!

Here he is sitting in a rolling chair after we got done spinning around! I tried to do everything I could think of to keep this little guy happy. There wasn't many things in the little room to play with though.