Torturing Cannon

It's not that we actually enjoying torturing our son, but we're doing this for his good.  Yes, I'll admit it here, our son has screwed up teeth and the only way to correct this situation is through a little society-approved torture treatment called orthodontics!

Last we started the long process to strait teeth with Cannon by taking him to the oral surgeon for the extraction of SEVEN teeth (that's four permanent and three wisdom).  Poor guy doesn't look so happy, does he?

(Don't worry, he wasn't really this sad, I just told him to look that way for the photo!)

 He pulled through the surgery just fine - in fact way better than we expected - he was even eating pizza after 3 days.  Of course the night of the surgery I fixed him whatever he wanted, which included a cake-shake.  See that piece of cake and that glass of milk?  Put them in the blender together and you get a very drinkable cake-shake!

Less than a week after surgery, he was into the orthodontists office for the placement of full braces.

 

Before

After

(Still smiling)

That night he had swim practice and I snapped this very scary photo of my son.  Stevie says it should be an album cover for some heavy metal band!