“Other than a dimple in a cute little chin,
What’s more adorable than a toothless grin?”
~Azu “Betty” Espezia
I still remember the day that Jackson got his first tooth. It seems like just yesterday. He was a few days shy of six months old, we were on a trip to Chicago, it was snowing and very cold. The poor little guy was not sleeping and had buckets of drool running down his face. His round little head was covered with the cutest hat that read, “I’ve Been a Good Boy”. We were outside playing in the snow and I see the tiniest little white emerge through his gums. Sweet little tooth, now gone. How can that time have passed so quickly? In the blink of an eye, my sweet boy is growing up. I imagine I will forever also remember the day a week or two ago when he awoke early in the morning to tell me that he thought he might be losing a tooth. It took me by surprise–only four years old (yes, almost five, but I always love to keep my children as young as possible for as long as possible
)? It seems far too early, but the dentist did tell us to expect this. Still, my mommy heart was not quite ready.
The Tooth Fairy made a visit to us last night, and this morning it was glorious to see the look on our sweet boy’s face when he showed us the shiny coins she left in place of his tooth. His toothless grin makes me smile each time I look at it, and it is instantly like a movie in my minds eye that begins to play, that little hat on a cold, snowy winters day and a white little tooth bringing it all back…
Slow down, baby boy.
we love you more than the moon, the sun and all the stars in the sky,
mommy, daddy + addie grace
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