Three in a Row

Breven came running in and announced, "I just pulled my tooth out." That makes it that he lost two teeth in the same day, which is very exciting.

His two front teeth have been loose for quite awhile, and one has been hanging in front of the other for about a month. We have been able to see half the roots, but not brave enough to pull it out.

This morning when he woke up, his tooth was missing. We looked in his bed and on the floor, but we did not find a missing tooth. Breven is worried that he swallowed it, and that the tooth fairy will not come. We wrote a note to explain what happened and hoped for the best. With the other front tooth gone, he realized the second front tooth was really loose too, and so he pulled out tonight. Now when you look in his mouth, he has three missing front teeth on the top not just the usual two-front teeth.

A year ago, he lost his first tooth, his right-side incisor, and a permanent tooth has not grown in that spot. When we went to the dentist, we saw that it was the corner of his permanent front tooth that pushed the side tooth out. Now Breven says he has "three in a row, just like tic-tac-toe." He's a poet, and he didn't even know it.--he, he