having fun in life

*****Post delayed from last week because Lucy wanted to surprise Grammy and Grandpa!*****

Lucy has had two loose front teeth for so many months. A few weeks ago I asked her if she had been wiggling them, and she said no, she had been too busy having fun. In life? I asked. Yes, in life.

You can't argue with that.

Last night after bed Lucy came into my room, mouth bloody and formerly-loosest front tooth in hand: "My tooth came out," she said.

It has been almost a year since her first tooth came out after last Thanksgiving in Virginia. She put the new tooth in her tooth fairy box but wasn't ready to put it under her pillow yet--she doesn't want the tooth fairy to take it until she has a chance to show it to everyone.


Update:
The evening of the morning when I wrote this post we were heading back from Fred Meyer on a family walk when Lucy, normally our cautious child, missed a big bump in the sidewalk and faceplanted on her scooter, knocking out the other front tooth. (Not fully knocked out, just bloody and twisty until Lucy, in an act of extreme bravery, reached in and twisted it the rest of the way out.) After the trauma of that event subsided, Lucy was extremely pleased for two reasons:

1. She lost two teeth in one day. "I broke the record!"
2. She now looks like a vampire because of the differential between the gums where the two front teeth used to be and the little side teeth that are still there. 

She has been stopping strangers on the street for days to tell them both of these things.

At the end of that day, Lucy summed it up for us: "For a darn bad day, I'm having a darn good time."

Friday Cute Shot (Now with Teeth!)

Tooth Number Three: True Blood

 Future vampire, Lucy "Westenra" Broughton

After a month of respite, Lucy's third tooth emerged on her 6-month birthday. She's going slightly out of order--what most of the voices on the interwebs call "a normal variation" and a few scream is a sign that she will never in fact have any front teeth--and instead of one of the top front teeth following the bottom two, we are looking at the right lateral incisor.

Right now, with just the one, she kind of looks like a little hobo, but if the matching one comes in on the other side, we'll have ourselves a little vampire.

We haven't managed to get a great shot of the new tooth yet, but if you look really closely here you can just see it peeking out under her lip.

Edit: I found a better one!

Proof of the Tooth

If you squint, you can see the first one--it's still just a white line in the photo, but it's sharp!

The second one is to the left of the first one (Lu's left), but appears to be photographically shy.

A Message for Tooth Number Two

What's that, tooth number 2? You're jealous of tooth number 1? You want a little attention directed your way, and you don't want to wait your turn?

Well, consider this your lucky day. You just got a whole blog post all to yourself.

Now will you leave sweet Lucy alone?