Speaking of Teeth

Miss Kaycee finally lost her first top tooth.

And guess who is visiting the orthodontist on a regular basis . . .
Palette expander scheduled for next month.
Let the REAL FUN begin.

Oh Henry!

This little guy fell and hit his mouth on our bamboo step. His hands were preoccupied with a sippy cup that slid over the step, leaving his mouth to take the blow. I scooped him up and waited for the blood to come. Surprisingly, it didn’t come as soon as I thought, nor with the amount I imagined in my head.

I laid him back on our bed when I saw a bit of blood in his mouth. I assumed it was his attacher-thing (he’s torn that before). I lifted his lip and to my horror, his tooth was gone! I ran back over to the step to see if it had been knocked out there, but I couldn’t find anything nor realized that he had hit the step so hard. I was right behind him and saw it all happen. I looked again and could see a bit of his tooth. The root?

I called Ryan, controlling tears and he called our pediatric dentist. She was out having just had surgery, and the other dentist was out of town. They gave us a referral to another pediatric dentist. I thought about calling our dentist but I knew he was with his family in Disneyland. (How dare all these dentist leave at the same time.)

I went ahead and made the call to California and our dentist said to make an appointment with that ped dentist. It wasn’t necessarily and emergency situation, but if they had to extract any part of the tooth, they’d want to do it before it abscessed. Barf. I asked about the possibility that it was shoved back up into his gums, but was told that that was pretty rare and again, I didn’t think he’d hit that hard. And, he hadn’t cut his mouth at all, either. Weird.

Here he is getting an x-ray (which we had to do twice since after the first one, they’d lost it by the time we got back to the exam chair).

Henry was a champ and let the dentist check everything out in his mouth. Again, I asked if the tooth had gone back up. ‘Unlikely’ was the response.

Well as it turned out, Henry does still have his tooth. He hit it just right to knock it back up- and without hitting any other teeth. I’m pretty relieved he still has it and all we can do now is wait for it to come back down. We won’t know if it did any damage to adult teeth until they come in. So, we have a good 7-8 years to see. I’m good with that.

Right after his appointment we hit Cold Stone. It was right there.

He didn’t start swelling until he woke up the next day. It wasn’t too bad either, but so sad to see his face puffy for a couple of days. (Up his left side, up to his eye.)

His missing tooth – 2nd on the left.

Hopefully we won’t see this happen again - this kid is everywhere and falling all the time. But, he's still the happiest 19 month old around.

Oh Henry!

Tuesday

Tuesday we finally had some warmer weather so we spent a few hours at the park with our playgroup. We all enjoyed the sunshine... especially Olivia.
Thanks for the picture, Lorianne!

Later that evening we attended another one of Rylee's plays. In this years Spring Production Rylee was Strega Amelia in Strega Nona. We've really enjoyed watching Rylee perform over the years and this play was no exeception. She does a great job and we look forward to her future performances.
(It's so hard to get a good shot when there's so much movement AND we sit so far back..)

After Rylee's plays, Gma & Gpa Hunt take a family picture.
After SEVERAL shots, this what the best we could do.
The only one with everyone looking at the camera...well kinda..

Here are just some other random shots from this past week.

Rylee's new look - BOTH front teeth out!

And, sweet Olivia with Dad

(and yes... she's always in her jammies)

A Smile Changed

Miss Rylee is growing up.
From this:

Just days later to this:

Although this isn't the first tooth she's lost, it makes me a little sad to see her adorable smile change. Not that she's not a cutie pie still (she'll ALWAYS be beautiful), it's just a step that makes my heart hurt a little.

I'm such a baby.
And, I'm okay with that.