Evan woke up rather grouchy this morning. I said to Mark, “Please pray for a change in his attitude this morning. I don’t want to take him to school again like this.” Not long after, I heard Mark yelling from upstairs for me to come up. I came up to find Evan smiling from ear to ear holding….his central incisor (for those of you who don’t have to google names of teeth for your children, this was his front lower tooth that was blogged about a few days ago!). Evan had been brushing his teeth when he asked Mark, “what’s that?” Laying on the toilet seat was his tooth! It fell out during brushing with NO blood! Evan was so excited! He put it in super tooth (the boy version of a tooth fairy doll) and couldn’t wait to show everybody at school today! I said to him, “you know what this means? You are getting big.” He said, “It’s like a warning that I’m growing up.” :) Who knew that our answer to prayer would be Evan’s first lost tooth. No tears today at drop off.

I wish I had gotten this picture in focus better. Hopefully, you can still see the crazy snaggle tooth of which I blog. Evan was just at the dentist last week and this thing was nonexistant. Last night, he comes downstairs after bedtime to tell us a tooth felt loose (he has yet to loose any and really wants to). So, he shows us this bottom tooth which is incredibly wiggly (how could it be so wiggly after being solid last week?). As if that wasn’t reason enough to get excited, to our amazement, there is a HUGE adult tooth coming in right behind this wiggly baby tooth. It must be doing its job since it clearly has dissolved the baby tooth root. But, I find it hard to believe it will be in the right spot or even fit in that spot when this baby tooth does fall out. Anyone know a good orthodontist around here? For now, he’s happy having two rows of teeth–it’s rather shark-like (except that they have 2-5 rows of about 20-30 teeth).

A couple pics from Ashlyn’s first day of preschool in Stepping Stones’ brand new building. The facility is great and Ash’s teacher is one of our neighbors which is fun.