Hey World!

What's up? I'm Annie, and I am in 5th grade. I have six brothers, I'm the oldest, and I have a crazy family. Poor me, but I love it! The picture above is a little wrong..... I was in fourth grade and I had short hair. I also didn't have 50 pounds of metal in my mouth! It's a long story....

      It was May 15, 2013 when I got an expander in my mouth. I was supposed to get it on the 14th, but I was in a play that night and this thing would make me talk weird for a while. On the 15th, I got pulled out of school at maybe 10:30 or 11:00 to go to the appointment. Beforehand, I had had other checkups that lead up to this one. When we got to the ortho, they took me right away. They sat me in a chair and cleaned my teeth, to make sure nothing would mess it up. I stared at the appliance the whole time before they put it in. This thing is going to be in my mouth??, I kept thinking. First, they glued the brackets on (yuck!). They made me bite on some kind of tool to make it go into my gums. I'm sure they did that on purpose. Anyway, next, they shaped the expander to fit it onto the brackets. They glued the other part of it to one of my molars and my upper right canine. When they were done, it looked like two pink buttcheeks with metallic arms out-stretched like a star. I was in a lot of pain, so we went to Subway to get a sub. It was my first one!! So afterward, I went to  school and showed everybody what I had gotten that day. Every single person I showed was grossed out by it. I was sore the whole day, but I came home to more pain! My appliance came with a key to crank it. I felt pressure every time, and it really hurt!!

Don't worry.. that's not my mouth!!

Now, I have something way different. It still expands, but it looks like a W. It's metallic. Are you grossed out enough yet? Okay, okay, fine. I'll stop. 

Now, I have long brown hair and much less homework than I did last year. 

That's it! I'm done talking about me.  Thanks for reading! Hope you check out my other blog entries! See ya!