All She Wants For Xmas Is Her Two Side Incisors

PB was productive at our swim meet today. While too young to compete, she made use of the time working on her two teeth on either side of her front teeth. It's been obvious for a while that she has permanent teeth just under the surface. It had gotten to the point where each baby tooth was sticking out and pointing to the corners of her mouth. As her mother, I can say she looked like such a Gomer.

The dentist said she should try to work on getting them out. PB has a propensity for teeth that get stuck and need to be pulled by the dentist. Nothing is worse that paying a pediatric dentist $150 for something that can be cured with apples and tooth wiggling. At the same time, her father is squeamish about pulling and wiggling and thinks we should wait for nature to take its course. Unfortunately, that does not work for PB, and now we have a dentist that agrees.

So PB lost the first tooth at the swim meet after some tooth-twisting calisthenics. Gross for the fans, but boy, she was proud. Then, I thought that it might take some time with the other side, but the asymmetry was killing me. Just one of those crazy elements of my personality that I try to hold at bay: I can't handle anything unsymmetrical in my life from flower arrangements to fruit bowls.

Back to PB, we did some more heavy-lifting tooth aerobics after a wonderful pasta Putanesca dinner made by CG. It was quicker than we thought, and out it popped. Now, instead of a Gomer, she looks rather squirrelly. No, I think chipmunk is a more apt description. Ah, symmetry.

Well. Got to go. PB just yelled that CG Jr. "is trying to steal my teeth!" He knows double teeth equal exponential tooth fairy dollars. Are we crazy to give bonuses for multiple teeth?

'lisciously scribed by Scout's Honor @ 7:51 PM