I think I have a loose tooth

Today i went to my mom's class after school. Her class is hatching eggs - for chicks. So today she had 3 chicks hatch. They are so cute! We waited two hours at the school to see another one hatch. you coudl see the hole and the little beak sticking out and then an arm and then it kind of rested for so long tha tmy mom said it was time to go home but while we were waiting I played with some of the toys with my brother and my friend and then my mom let one of the chicks that hatched yeterday run around on the floor and it wen tover to my hand and it walked over it and then it pecked my fingers
But tha tis nto why I am writing. I want to tell you that one of my front teeth is finally loose! at least I think so but don't worry, I ti s not going to affect my palate expander.
I hope you have a nice day. I just wanted to tell you about my tooth.
hey, how are you doing...the ones who told me they just got the palate expander? I hope you are doing okay with it and hey, you are one more day closer to having less days to turn it.
Your friend
Colin

Now it is time to find out about you and here is a joke too!

This is me with my Opa. He came to visit me from Florida. I am playing the piano for him. Oh, that is something you can do with a palate expander...play the piano..haha

Hi to all my blog friends out there! How are you doing? I hope you are all doing okay? I have been wondering who is reading my blog. I looked today and I have over 1,485 hits! That is soooooo cool. I am wondering who you all are. Do you all have palate expanders too?

When you write comments, I will answer them so let me know and then I will answer you :).

I have to tell you that yesterday I was supposed to go for my checkup for my palate expander. I didn't go. My appointment was for 2 o'clock and my mother couldn't get me out of school early to take me. i don't know why they don't make my appointments for after school. My mom said she will try and get an appointment for after school. I don't like missing. Besides my brother has pneumonia and it was raining and she didn't want to go out in the rain with him. Tha tis another reason why I missed my appointment.

You know sometimes I forget that I even have the palate expander so if you are just getting yours, don't worry, because it goes by really fast. I was so scared when i first got it and my mother was going crazy with fear because she was so afraid to hurt me. It does hurt when you turn it. Tha tis the the truth, but then you kind of get used to it. Now I am in the part where it just hangs out in my mouth to keep my mouth the new size. I have not lost a lot of baby teeth so I will not even get braces for a couple of years I think because don't you need your grown up teeth to get braces? But at least when I get my grown up teeth, there will be space for my new teeth to fit in.

Here is a dentist joke I found to make you guys laugh...

Why did the king go to the dentist?

To get his teeth crowned...

haha..

I will tell you that I really didn't get that but my mom has a crown so she was trying to explain it to me about what a crown is.

Have a good day.

thank you for reading my blog

Hang in there if you just got your palate expander..it will be okay :)

Question Answered...

Hellllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooo friends,
how are you?
"W" from Sweden asked about how much my mouth was stretched out with my rapid palate expander. This is the email from the dentist to answer that.

"The expander has an 8m screw. Each turn is 1/4 of a mm. His total expansion was 8mm.  There is also a 12mm version of the appliance. "

when you look at that on a ruler, its really not that big but boy did it hurt and now I still have the space in between my mouth but my mom says she doesn't think it looks as big as it did. I haven't had to turn it for about a month now but it stays in my mouth to hold the stretch I think.

Have a good day. I am going to my school concert now to sing.

Your Friend,
Colin :)

Good and Bad

THINGS THAT ARE STILL A PAIN HAVING A PALATE EXPANDER

Still talk a little funny

Things like pretty much everything except for drinks still get stuck

Nothing else really

THINGS THAT ARE NOT A PAIN HAVING A PALATE EXPANDER

Brushing my teeth
Watching tv
Playing video games
Playing on my Little League Team
Playing with moon sand
Doing karate and getting my green belt the other day! Yeah!

WHAT IS COOL ABOUT HAVING A PALATE EXPANDER

I got to write a blog and now I am famous! Even a few of my friends read my blog for their reading challenge homework for school.

Today I saw I have 1,197 hits so me and mymom checked to see where people read it from so here goes..
US.A., Canada, Denmark, UK, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Phillipines, Lebanon, Denmark, Austria and China.

I am making new friends on the internet who are going through the same thing as me.

Oh, my mom said to write that one thing that is cool about having a palate expander is that my teeth will be great! Yeah!

Have a nice day.

Oh, I will email my dentist today about finding out how many millimeters my mouth changed. That was a good question from "W" in Sweden...Hope they will answer back soon.

See you right here on my blog next time. Adios amigos. See you another day.

Oh, I am going bowling now.

I'm back...sorry for taking so long

Hi Everybody, I am sorry that I have not written in a few weeks. I have been really busy but I have not forgotten about all of you and this blog.
So I went to the dentist and guess what, no more turning! Hooray! Actually I was a little bit sad because I thought I would have nothing left to write anymore and I really like writing and my mother said that I am getting better at my writing because of this blog.
So I am not turning anymore. The dentist told my mom not to turn it anymore. She said, "no problem." She didn't like turning it anyway because she was always feeling like she was the  "torturer" like I called her the first few times. Well maybe I called her that more than just a couple of times but IT HURT!!! So the dentist turned it one last time for now and did something to it but I don't know what so that my mom couldn't turn it anymore. She was like, "don't worry, I won't turn it" but the dentist told my mother that there are some mothers who still want to do it. Are they crazy???
So I have to go back to the dentist in a few weeks and I then will write again. Now I have to go back every 6 weeks to get it checked out. I don't know how long I will have to do that for. I think they said I can get it off during the beginning of 3rd grade.
I hope you have a happy Easter.
Your Friend,
Colin

Some more information

Happy Monday.
Some of you have asked me questions about the palate expander but since I was sick and missed my appointment and my next one is not until Thursday, here is a web site I found with my mother that might give you more information. Really I am thinking that I have been pretty good in giving you information, like the real truth about the pain and how things get stuck but this website we found is pretty good I guess too. I also think that I pretty much tell you how sometimes its not that bad and at other times it really STINKS! Like when food gets stuck in it and you have to take your time eating something like today I was eating my favorite pasta salad and the noodles were getting stuck and all I wante dto do was eat it quickly because it is so good but I had to sit there with my tongue trying to get the noodles out so i could keep eating!!!!!!
I just don't want you to think that I have not been working on this blog because I love doing it.
Have a good week.

http://www.ortholearn.com/demos/ortholearn.swf

Hello. It is Saturday and they couldn't get me in for a dentist appt to check my palate expander until next Thursday. When my mom made the appointment the receptionist made my mom laugh because sh told her that one of their patients does a blog about the palate expander that we should check out. Of course she wD talking about my blog so that was funny.
Have a good weekend. Your friend coli
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