Our dentist has been mentioning Birch needing expanders for some time.  Birch started to beg me over and over again to make an appointment with Aspen's orthodontist, so I finally got around to it.  He was so excited to get his own mouth appliance...I think because Aspen has braces.  I think it's funny, but hope the excitement lasts!  He's had the expanders in for a few days now, and has been pretty uncomfortable.  He was just dying to get them in though; I snapped some photos of him the morning we went to the orthodontist.  He's an entertaining boy.