teeth!

Before I get to Daphne's 10 month update (10 months and 3 days today! whoa, double digit months!), I wanted to write a little something about the interesting intersection of ages we have going on right now with the two kids, with Daphne getting and Elias losing first baby teeth!

Pretty exciting stuff. Elias as a baby got his teeth on the early side but Daphne's took a couple of months longer to break through. That said, within about a month's time she now has four teeth to date with another two on bottom working their way up...I think. She got the bottom left, with the right one closely following and in the last week the top two front teeth broke through. She also had a nasty several-weeks-long cold so she was a pretty cranky mess last week, right when Elias was suffering from a bad ear infection. By the holiday we were in decent shape, but more about that later.

Anyway, then yesterday when I went to pick Elias up from school he announced that he'd lost a tooth at lunch! Just like that. No wiggly tooth build-up or drama, or not really. He'd been talking about loose teeth for a couple of months but it always seemed to be a different tooth that was wiggly and usually followed a buddy losing one of his or her teeth. So I didn't think much of it. He seems to have lost it at lunch and it is literally lost. The story about where exactly it went keeps changing. I thought maybe it got stuck in food but at first he said he threw it away - because "it was bloody" - and then he said he threw it under the table. Needless to say, we won't be keeping that first lost baby tooth (or future ones?). The whole experience is classic Elias right now - not talking about it much leading up to it (similar to how he didn't complain about his ear hurting until it was causing him so much pain he could only sleep for 15-20 minutes at a time, barely responding to ibuprofen), and throwing it away because "it was bloody." He's not a big fan of messy, so this does not at all surprise me. Keeping the tooth probably didn't occur to him at all.

The tooth fairy still paid him a visit though, leaving $2 for the missing tooth. That's pretty generous, especially considering there was no tooth to exchange. Perhaps he or she knew to search for it in the school cafeteria. Anyway, the tooth's neighbor is super wiggly as well so I think we may have another gap in that smile pretty soon. When I dropped Elias off at school this morning I hollered, "If you lose a tooth today, don't throw it away, okay?"