Amelia asked last week “do you know that some people go to an orthodontist just outside of their neighborhood?” I chuckled and said “yes, aren’t they so lucky”. She continued “Why can’t we? Why do we always have to drive so far.” Amelia and Emma had the last of their “unicorn” teeth pulled on Thursday. Their precious dentist named the teeth in the middle of their palate “unicorn” teeth. Cleft kids have all sorts of configurations with their teeth, often missing pertinent ones where the cleft is and a bunch of extra malformed ones that appear in their palate. Calling them “unicorn” teeth always made them feel unique instead of weird, not everyone gets to have unicorn teeth you know, but my cleft girlies do, did! Anyone that has spent more than five minutes with Amelia and Emma know how very different their personalities are. They do have a few shared interests, but for the most part, they are polar opposites. Amelia, our type A, straight A kid, 14 tomorrow, is very much in her teenage angst era and has been for two years now, we see glimpses of her coming out of it and Jay and I silently celebrate when we do. Emma who lives outside of the box, is fiery, has the biggest heart and wears it on her sleeve, so the sixth grade girl drama has her in tears at least once a week, we pray that […]

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