My Brave Girls

Sophie's new toothless smile

So Monday was the big day for Sophie going to the dentist to have three teeth extracted.  This was a big deal for us, given that she had a fairly traumatic experience getting a cavity filled back in April.

Here she is before the procedure

Her tiny little mouth doesn't have room for all her permanent teeth.  I noticed this in May when her lower teeth started growing in behind the baby teeth up front.  After taking her for an orthodontic consult, they said she should have 6-7 baby teeth pulled to make room for the permanent teeth to move forward.  They say her tongue will do the work of pushing the teeth into their proper place, but that she'll likely still need to have braces at some point in the future.

So she had the top three teeth extracted on Monday, and the bottom three will come out next month.  (One was already loose and fell out on its own.  Since the tooth fairy pays $1/tooth and the dentist charges $150/tooth, Charles offered to double the tooth fairy's money for any teeth Sophie pulled before the dentist could get to them.)

Afterwards with a mouth full of gauze and a happy face

Sophie did great this time around, once she managed to get herself out of the car in the parking lot, that is!  Charles took her to the appointment and then stayed home with her all day, though from the energy she had and lack of pain she experienced, she probably could have gone to school.  We've scheduled the next appointment on a day when we're all off from school so that she doesn't need to miss another day.  Sophie is disappointed about this since she quite enjoyed her day off!

Some of the biggest teeth I've ever seen

The title of this post is "My Brave Girls" (plural), so I have to throw in Hannah's feat of bravery.  It was in pulling off this very peace-full outfit that she wore to school on Tuesday:

Doesn't she just exude peace?