I am super busy... I told the kids I would be done with my work for other people by the first of December and we would just have fun, but... one of the shops I just did some graphics work for wanted the same banners (animated .gif files) done in other sizes. of course the proportions for all of them were different so I can't just resize, i have to remake. THey are all the same theme so that does make it faster, but it also makes it boring..... sigh.... I've done these pics and written this text three times now. Anyway... the kids forgive me because that means more toys for them when I'm finished.
Talk about a "small world" moment! Another of my trade partners (I did photo editing, she's doing some car decals for me), when I wrote to give her my mailing address, she replied back saying that she and her husband had grown up in a town right down the road, her grandmother and brothers live within three miles of me, her first girl was born in the same hospital as my first two kids, and we are still comparing notes, but we think that my husband and her husband probably went to middle school together. Stuff like that is so fun! They are now in Florida, but are from right here where we are.
Trying to think of other news....
oh. Joey is getting fit for his "appliance" soon. He has an underbite that he's had since he was a baby. the dentist has been watching it for several years and wanted to wait and see when his front adult teeth came in. The bite is still off, but only slightly. He wanted to adjust the top teeth asap so that once they were moved into the correct position, all the other teeth could come in an and not be shoved out of position, thus, trying for an easy correction now, rather than major correction later once they've all grown in wrong. I used to think that ortho treatment on a kid so young was stupid, but we really trust our dentist and fully agree with him in this case.
Enter the insurance company.
Our dentist is a participating DENTIST. He also is licensed and does orthodontic work in his office. however, he's not a participating ORTHODONTIST with the insurance company. So, even if he agrees to work within their pricing schedule, they won't cover for him to do the work. So we had to find someone else. now... what sense does that make? pull a kid from the doctor and staff he knows and likes, the doctor who is very familiar with his case and has been watching and measuring for nearly three years now... and make him go some place new, where they have all the new patient fees etc. How utterly stupid. Anyway, he went for his consult the other week and the lady just called me yesterday. basically, the music lessons that I had hoped to do after the new year will now go into Joey's mouth. yikes. Why is it that we pay so much insurance? someone remind me?
Since Joy doesn't have her top teeth, we can't know if she will have the same issues, but since she has the identical face shape as Joey, I do kind of wonder. And now Jonny is looking more and more like them every day. Very cute kids, if I may say so myself, but if the jaw shape is part of the package... maybe I should sell them to a modeling agency while infants to pay for the tooth issues later.
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