Loose Teeth!
Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 10:53PM I am officially the mom of a big girl now. My daughter is losing the much cliche'd two front teeth. It's hysterical and I'm trying to soak it up as much as possible. Before I know it she will be crying to me about insensitive boyfriends and rough professors and then her kids. But for now she just looks absurd and I adore it. We knew our kids would need a dentist, between my husbands English blood line and my thrown in-your-face-teeth, but this, this is ludicrous! Thank goodness we know a good one (Dentist that is). These teeth came loose the old fashioned way, Ava 0, Barbie scooter 2. Our dentist said we shouldn't pull them out unless the teeth kept her from eating. The girl eats corn on the cobb, I think she's doing fine. 
I've found our close friends and family are struggling with how long these two teeth are taking to fall. Our culture is so obsessed with wanting things right now, that we've lost the ability to let things happen on their own time. Teeth, birth, mile stones, pregnancy, you name it. It's just so hard for us to let go and let the Universe take of things. It's hard to trust that things will happen the way they will. We want to force open the rose bud and help the butterfly from it's cocoon. When we do though, the flower will not bloom and the butterfly will die. These stubborn teeth and this beautiful child are helping me learn how to surrender.
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i still say she needs a photo of her in overalls with pigtails and maybe even a piece of hay!
let 'em hang!
Ha! I have got to get the girl some overalls that tooth is still just kickin' it all crazy hanging out. UGH!
Ava just came up to me today and announced that "Mr. Sticky" wasn't stuck anymore. She really didn't seem in a hurry for the tooth to come out- she just knew it was going to and seemed to wait patiently... It was fun to talk about, though. It wasn't just the tooth and the position (changing as it did) that it took in her mouth but the faces she made when she showed it to me! I agree, rushing a loose tooth can be trouble. A tooth knows better than we do when its time has passed... (unless a scooter changes the paradigms!) Those baby teeth are space holders- holding the space for those adult teeth. Perhaps a metaphor for life?
Let's enjoy all the childhood we can get!!! Miss you, Ava!