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He Just Won’t Let It Go

Ford is a little shark!
Do you see that little tooth there? That one on the bottom?
That’s a tenacious little monster.
This little tooth has been dangling for three weeks, now. There is a stout little permanent incisor pushing it’s way up, right behind it, with shiny little mamelons to prove its seniority; still, this little guy wont. budge. But it will wiggle and dangle and gross me out, quite happily. Ford AND his tooth are quite happy together, don’t you think?


I don’t know; I give them one more day together before the inevitable…. 😉

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Lost!

gone: upper right incisor!

Ford is one of those firstborn children who considers all the possible outcomes before attempting something new. He isn’t the type of child who just, say, FORDS the stream, full tilt. So when this little front tooth started wiggling, he was in no rush to yank it out like he sees his friends do at recess. Instead, he let it hang there until it was dang ready.

gone: upper right incisor!

Of course, Ford has no problem at all plowing to center stage, and this new gaping gaptooth smile here is his latest prop.

gone: upper right incisor!

But oh! All the wrangling he did to divert food from this tooth for weeks, carefully brushing the poor dead thing until it bore no resistance to the toothbrush. It was getting kind of gross, in the end, dangling there by a thread.

Wait. It’s still kind of gross, really.

“It just came out when I was running! I didn’t do a thing!”
YEAH! SO ready was this tooth that when it finally fell out, there was no blood,

gone: upper right incisor!

just a little gummy middle finger.

gone: upper right incisor!