that smile!

Friends, Liam has had braces since second grade! It's been seven long years of tooth extractions, head gear, expanders, brackets, rubber bands, adjustments, and countless trips to South Bend to see Dr. Homeboy* the orthodontist. And today I took him to finally (finally!) get them taken off for good. He has a retainer that he is supposed to wear at night for the rest of his life (we'll see how that goes when he's in his twenties), but he's free of metal. And look at his beautiful smile!

* Not his real name, but it might as well be.