Growing Up

My babies are growing up on me. Glorianna lost her first tooth yesterday. She’s 5 1/2. Her 2 bottom front teeth have been loose for a while now. Expecially the one on the left. I’m surprised, really, that she kept it as long as she did. When it first became loose, she was really worried. This was after all, the first time she’d ever experienced this kind of thing. But after a few days, she got used to the idea, was finally able to be convenced that it wasn’t a bad thing, a new tooth would grow in it’s place, and suddenly it was pretty cool. She then started checking every day to see if her tooth had fallen out yet.

So yesterday, her and Riah were wrestling around and he accidently bumped her mouth. POP! Out comes her tooth. Thankfully Trevor was there to witness it, otherwise the story Glorianna told, would probably have gotten poor Riah into trouble. ha ha . She decided she wanted to keep her tooth. So we cleaned it, put it in a baggie and she carried it around all day. Some time towards the evening, we found the empty bag in her room. But no tooth. She was heartbroken. Her missing tooth is now really missing. We just have no idea where. I’m sure it will eventually get sucked up the vaccuum cleaner.

And speaking of missing teeth….Zion seems to be on a tooth loosing streak. He has lost 3 more teeth in the last 3 weeks. 2 of which were molars and “bad” teeth, anyway. One had a filling and one had a cap. So we are glad to be rid of those. I’m just hoping and praying he takes better care of his new teeth when they finally do come in.

Azariah now feels left out and has decided he wants to loose a tooth, too. I just hope he doesn’t want to loose one so bad that he makes one fall out. He’s already lost several teeth and they’ve been replaced by his new “grown up” teeth, but since he hasn’t lost any recently, and his siblings have, he is wanting to join in the excitment. =)