Lex and Braces...

 For about 6 months, Lex had an expander in her mouth, a device that spread the top teeth apart and widened her mouth.  That recently came out and she also had five teeth pulled.  This was all done in preparation for braces...

The before...

And the after...

She only has four brackets on the front four top teeth, more will be coming...she was not pleased in the second picture, it all felt weird to her, but she'll figure it out...

Lex's Vaccinations...

 Lex started her COVID vaccination process in November...here's the result from the first dose (she wasn't smiling as much when the needle went into the arm)...

And here's the picture immediately after the second shot...

We had to take one more (without the mask) outside...she was happy...

She's considered fully vaccinated in a week and though we haven't been doing much mitigation (she doesn't wear a mask at school this year, we haven't modified much of our activities considering most tend to be outdoors, etc.) on our end, next week will be a good day.  Everyone's vaccinated, there's been no major quarantine issues that we've faced and there have not been positive cases in anyone close to us.  Now variants might change things, but in the mean time, let's roll...