Teeth

So.  Extra teeth.  Apparently, if you have one extra, they pull five.  

Macie was a trooper.  The oral surgeon wanted to put her under general anesthesia at the surgery center because she gets so nervous, but when I found out that would cost us an extra $2,000 

I bribed her to be brave. 

Just sit in the chair, they will give you gas, and you won't feel a thing.  

She was absolutely horrified, but she did it.  

And luckily, I was right about the not feeling a thing, or I don't think she would ever trust me again.  

Pre-surgery:

the front one fell out two days before she was scheduled to go in.  So that was lucky.  Pretty much, she has an extra front tooth.  If it was just an extra baby tooth, it wouldn't be a big deal, but she had the extra permanent one up there as well.  It was coming in sideways preventing all the other teeth on that side from dropping down.  She had lost all her baby teeth on the other side, but none on the extra tooth side.  

 So they went in and pulled four teeth that were exposed, then opened up her gums to extract the extra one.  It was pretty disgusting.  And, yes, I am THAT mom that took pictures of the whole grotesque procedure. 

She wasn't happy about any of this.  Quite mad, really.  She is pretty self conscious and will only smile with her mouth shut.  They were pulled mid September.  It is now December 29th and the teeth haven't come in yet.  But they are hurting, so I am hoping that means they are on their way. 

I had bribed Macie with things like an Ipod, a trip to Holiday World, or getting her ears pierced. Normally she would have to wait until she was nine for piercing her ears, so that is what she chose.  Fabulous!  I saved two grand and only had to dish out $30 to get her ears pierced.  It was a win-win. I failed to document the piercing, but she said it hurt more than getting the teeth pulled.

A few shots from her program at school.  The school is doing the "7 Habits of Highly Successful Students" by Stephen Covey, so the program was all about the habits:
Be Proactive
Begin with the End in Mind
Put First Things First
Think Win-Win
Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood
Synergize
Sharpen the Saw