Better

I'm feeling better. Thats it. Goodbye.
I will have my mom make an appointment for me to go to the dentist this week so i can answer your questions and let you know what is going on with me!
Bye.

this is not my teeth. its just a picture I found on the internet of what mine looks like and wha tmy key looks like.

Japan

Colin and I just noticed that there is someone reading this blog from Japan (this week)! We want to say that whoever you are, we hope you and your family are safe and that everything will be okay. We have you and your country in our prayers.

Colin & His Mom

still sick

Sorry for no updates....Colin is still under the weather and will write again when he feels better  and can return to the dentist :) Thanks for supporting his blog! He is so excited about it!

-Colin's Mom :)

Ugh

Today I was supposed to go to the dentist but I got the flu. Goodbye.

just want to let you know things still can get stuck

It is Sunday and I just forgot to tell you in case anyone wants to know is that things still get stuck in my palate expander like my mom made eggs this morning again before we went out and they got stuck again. I was sitting at the island and I wasn't talking and my mom said I know that you are getting the eggs otu of your palate expander! How did she know that? But yes, she was right. Things still get stuck but I can get them out quick, quick quick!

Some kids are just mean

This week at early morning dropoff at school there was this boy and this is the same one who picked on me on the kindergarten bus and he was taking my backpack and kicking it all over the cafeteria!!! But the thing that made me want to cry and then I did in the afternoon in my mims car was that this same kid was making fun of the way I speak because of my palate expander!!! He kept saying I speak like a baby! When I got into my car in the afternoon when my mom picked me up I was crying. I also cried because I got punched in the eye at recess. It was not a good day and that eye punch was from a different kid! My mom went to school the next day and took care of it but I hate that the palate expander makes me talk funny. Can't they do something so that you don't have to talk like this. My mom said that at least she sees big changes in myouth so I guess that's good. I only have to turn the key 3 moretimes and them I go back to the dentist but I don't know when that is.

Ouuuuuuuuuch

I went to the dentist you know a few days ago and I have to tell you that now when I do the key, it is WORSE than before well now it is getting better but the first few days it was hurting again really baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddddd! It was stinging on my right side and then I got a little cut in my mouth but today it is not bothering me so much, the cut is what I am talking about. My grandma was here the on Saturday and when my mom turned the key, I was screaming and crying and why am I telling you this? Oh yeah because I am trying to tell you what is going on with my palate expander. Well like I said it is feeling a little bit better now but you know I haven't turned the key yet today. I hope you have a good day.
Your Friend,
Colin.

The Key Has Started Again!!!!!!!!!!!

Me at the dentist office. I am playing video games. I like to play Mario Kart X-Box. the game is really cool!

This is me and my dentist. He is nice.

Today I went to the dentist. It was a little fun. I got 2 silly bands. One I didn't really  like because the dinosaur one I liked, but one more that came in the little container from the prize machine was a little pink princess. I really don't like that one.

The assistant came to get me from playing my video games. She took me to the dentist's chair. She checked my teeth. She said she had to put some pressure on each side with this metal thing. I thought it was funny because she took this jar thing filled with all of these metal pliers and stuff and put it on the tray  in front of me. I was sitting there the whole time wondering if they were going to use all of those tools in my mouth but no, they did not. They only used like one or two. Then she asked me to bite down and she wanted me to loosen up my mouth, the bottom part but I didn't quite get that. So she was using her fingers to close my mouth in some special way I didn't get. That was okay. It did not hurt. Then she left and some other lady came in to talk to me about my blog. She said she had read part of it and thought it was cool. Me and my mother told her that people from so many far away places read it like in South Korea and Australia and the Netherlands but i don't know where that is really but My mom said it is far from here in the U.S.A.

Then the dentist came and I asked him if i could take a picture of him with me for my blog so that is the picture you see here today. He is a nice guy. So he looked in my mouth for a little while and I don't know what he was doing but then he said, okay, well I only have to turn it 12 more times. I did not want to tell him but really I want to turn it 20 times again. Come on, how do they expect my teeth to be fixed if I can't turn it 20 times. So he turned it for me. The assistant gave me a new chart and my mom asked if she could round off the top of the key because it has been getting a little stuck some time. So they did that and then the dentist told my mom that now the key would have a different feeling so she had to stick it in the whole to see what the new feeling would be. did I tell you already that they gave me a new chart? Well they did and now, oh wait, I told you about that already. Sorry

Okay, well I am going to go to bed now. But I want to tell you that I had a fun time.

What they did to me was fun stuff. It was so fun that I wish i could go back tomorrow or maybe everyday.

Goodnight.

The Key Has Ended!

This is a picture of me with my chart.

Me filling out the chart. This is what I do every day.

See the space in between my teeth???

Hello. the key  has ended. It has ended. It has really ended, ended all day long! I have to go to the dentist on Thursday. I get to get out of school early becasue my appointment is at 12:30. So I don't have to turn the key until then. I have to start turning the key on thursday again if the dentist says so. I am so happy and a little sad. I am sad because I can't do the key anymore but I am happy because i get to go to the dentist and get the prize machine again and get a slinky. The 6th slinky, the 7th slinky, the 8th slinky.

See you here again next time on Kids News. Next Time (or after I get back from the dentist on Thursday!)

Bye Bye...Okay, I am going now to finish my homework. I didn't know I would get so much homework in second grade. What is up with that?????

Biiiiiiggggg Spaaaaaccccee!

It is growing. I am talking about the space in between my front tooth. Now it is starting to look like I lost my front teeth. Well I have to tell you that even though I am now 8 years old, I have only lost 2 teeth and that are my bottom teeth and my top teeth are still there but it doesn' tlook like that anymore. It looks like I lost one tooth. Okay, well now the key when it turns does not hurt my left side anymore. It hurts my right side but only for a few minutes.. When I went to my piano lesson and I saw Miss Bouchard, she told me that she had a palate expander too but when she was in 6th grade and not 2nd greade like me. She asked me if it hurts me on top of my nose and then she pointed to the top of her nose. Well I had to tell her that no, it does not hurt my nose but it was nice of her to ask me how I was doing and now I know that even more people have the palate expander.
I went to the Connecticut Science Center today and it was fun. They should have something about palate expanders there. Now I am going to have dinner. Goodbye. See uyo later

The Easy Key

When my mom twists the key, it doesn't hurt that badly anymore. I don't really whine anymore like I did the first couple times I did it. But now it doesn't really hurt that badly and when I bite it doesn't hurt that bad actually. 
The space in between my front teeth is getting bigger.
I ate a bagel and a big chunk got stuck in my palate expander but I kept pushing it back and forth with my tongue and it came right out in medium sized pieces.
Thats it for today.
Hasta Luego.
Your Friend,
Colin
P.s. My mom is getting worried that because I am not complaining anymore that she is not doing it right so when she takes my brother for his checkup on Friday, she is making me see the hygenist there too. She says she doesn't want us to waste our time if it is not working but I am telling her over and over that its working. Calm down Mommy!
P.S.S. My dog Tybee says hello.