Sunday, April 13, 2008

Half of Us

Half of my family left for Arizona last Thursday. The Husband and Q flew to Arizona to visit with The Husband's grandparents for a few days. They will be home tomorrow night, just in time to spend a few hours with my husband on his 38th birthday!

So for us, it has been a girls weekend, and a somewhat lazy one at that. We spent Friday night at a friends house, then Saturday at home in the rain. Saturday night we went to dinner with my in-laws to celebrate their 39th! Anniversary. And today was spent at home, lazy, playing and watching tv. I'm now sitting here, catching up on some old tv, procrastinating, avoiding the things I really should be doing.

And, while in the midst of this diversion, I got a phone call from Arizona. It went something like this:

"Hi Mommy, did you know I don't have a loose tooth anymore?"
"Oh, did you lose your tooth?"
"I did. It came right out at the resturant, and it didn't even hurt, and it came right out, and now theres no tooth."
"Really. That's great. How does it feel to not have a tooth there?"
"Fine, Mommy. It didn't hurt at all."

There was more to it, but I was lost in silent tears and feeling bad that I wasn't there for it.

So I skyped them, while still on the phone with them, and saw it on video ... and it looks strange to not see his little chicklet of a tooth there anymore.

So ... not only is tomorrow my husbands birthday and the day they come home, but I get to see the gap in my sons beautiful grin! Tomorrow's gonna be good!

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

milestones

While at the dinner table tonight, Q mentioned that his tooth hurt. He said something about biting a white cup (styrofoam ?) at school and now it was hurting. Well, just a few minutes ago, while brushing teeth, he mentioned it again. So, I checked, and sure enough, it's loose.

When his little mini-chicklet tooth wiggled, my heart sped up and then it dropped. Seriously.

He, on the other hand, jumped up and down and squealed (literally, squealed) with delight.

We came downstairs and told Daddy, who is of course, duly excited.

In the whole scheme of things, it's only a tooth. But it's my sons tooth - my first child has his first loose tooth and I feel like crying. He is upstairs right now, singing the joys of his loose tooth. His words, getting in to bed tonight, "Oh, I can't wait to tell everyone about my tooth. Well, except people that don't know me." He's so excited, and I feel awful for feeling awful.

He is convinced that his tooth will fall out by the time he turns six, which is in about six weeks.

We'll see how it goes. I may need somebody to hand me a kleenex.