The Tooth That Was Not Quite Out

My daughter has had a tooth that needed to come out.   It was being pushed out by the permanent tooth and had started to looks very strange indeed when she smiled or opened her mouth.   It was bothering her, making it difficult to eat.

She isn’t bothered by the teeth when they get loose; she’ll even work on them, trying to get the tooth out earlier rather than later.   But this tooth was persistent in staying put in her mouth.

This is what she looked like earlier today.   Note that the tooth is actually sideways in her mouth.



She won over the tooth eventually.  Tonight the Tooth Fairy will (hopefully remember to) put a dollar under her pillow to celebrate.

The Big Boy Update:  For some reason my son got interested in the knives in our knife block the other day.   We have a big block with a variety of knives in it.   He pulled each of them out, asking about some and making judgement on how others could be used.   When he pulled out the cleaver he said, “I think you could kill a cow with this.”

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter is now taking a low dose of an antibiotic that is fairly useless to the rest of the body because it gets absorbed into the kidneys and bladder very quickly.   But it is good for bladder infections.   She’ll be on this low dose for some time.   It’s only available in a pill and we weren’t sure how she was going to do with it.   I told her she could try swallowing it with lemonade.   I got her a full glass, thinking this could be a challenging event.   She put the pill in her mouth, took a sip of lemonade and swallowed it easily.   We told her we were proud of her, some adults had difficulty swallowing pills.