Last week B went to the orthodontist. As expected, all of the work that has been done has been undone over time. I did not realize it but B has an open bite. Which means that when he closes his jaw there is a pretty significant space between his top and bottom front teeth - they don't nicely overlap. Every time he swallows (which doc said is about 3,000 times a day) he thrusts his tongue forward because his mouth is so small. There are 2 palate expander options. The first one did not work well and is not sturdy enough to handle B's issues. So, we are going with a RPE-rapid palette expander. Basically it is an appliance in the top of the mouth that will be cranked every day to expand things. In forty days we should have gotten a 6mm expansion. The doc said that in all his years, this is the first time he has had to do both options on a patient. I told him I was glad that we could be a first for him! That is scheduled for mid May. So, we have to expand things, then pull front teeth down and out over the bottom teeth and then bring the teeth together. Time to start saving for the additional phases that are coming (first phase paid for :-))
The other day I was talking with Jbird's teacher. He told me, as he was chuckling, that he had to keep getting on Jbird. He said "I know it is a cliche but just no other way to explain it...he is just 100% boy." I just laughed. He said that J tries so hard but just gets excited, blurts and continues to escalate.
So, I recently listened to a radio program on kids learning styles. It discussed auditory, visual and kinestetic learners. Audio learners are those they had to learn, not through listening to someone else, but to listening to themselves. They are the kids that are always interrupting with questions. The kinestetics learned can't learn unless he is busy. There are also 2 ways that kids process information. I don't forget the first but the second is global. Meaning they can't focus or follow through very well unless they know the end results first. They are the ones that like the read the first two and last two chapters of a book first, then they read the middle. Really trying to work through some issues particularly with B, so will be looking more closely at these things and how to implement these things with them.
Spring break is here! We are currently chilling in the room, in between swimming.
We are here with another family.....
Here is the soon to be birthday boy. I struggled with what to get him and I was in Costco and found a snorkel set, something he has wanted for a while. We gave it to him early so he could try it out....
This kid though stole the show....I was shocked at how adventurous he was. Still not wanting to take the life jacket off, but a crazy jumping little guy. He will run and jump and spin before hitting the water. Often times he would jump so high he would touch the bottom, even with a life jacket on.
He was attempting to do a back flip in the water but was unsuccessful with his life jacket. I was sitting in a chair and talking to one of the other boys. He walked up and said "watch this..". I was not really paying attention but saw him do a back flip INTO the water. I freaked out, turned to my friend and said 'did he just do a back flip'. She said 'yep!' He did a back flip from the side of the pool. Something he had never done before and to my knowledge had never seen anyone else do either. He got amazing height and was able to fully rotate. He did it several more times. We tried to get it on video and camera last night, but to no avail. Today he obviously did not have the same adrenaline rush but caught it on film. He was not getting very high so was scaring me how close he was coming to the end of the pool. We are now trying to teach him how to stand on the edge and jump up and back. (You can see in the picture how he is too far from the edge.)
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