Loose

I generally consider Isaac and myself as pretty on top of things having to do with the boys. I don't think there is much that gets by between the two of us watching. So, imagine my surprise, after looking in his mouth twice a day, every day, Isaac called me over yesterday evening to look in Jason's mouth. I saw this:

So after our talk about what is going to happen, Jason's take was:
"The baby teeth will leave the parking lot so the big teeth can move
into the parking space?" Yep, my boy. That about sums it up!

I swear I just about fell over.

(Then I might have had an internal freak out over what those big teeth behind those baby teeth will likely mean. After which I may have just about snapped his head off while I desperately tried to see if there is anything I missed on the top. Thankfully, there isn't. Sigh. I was somewhat relieved to find that one of the teeth is slightly loose until I realized that the other isn't budging at all. I guess that would just be greedy?)

How the heck do two teeth grow in that much before I even know it...when I look in his mouth two times a day?!!?

I don't know.

Parenting fail right there. Lol.

We have an appointment with the dentist next week, just to make sure that he won't need and dental intervention in this situation. (Oh, please NO!)

In my defense, doctor Google says that most children loose their first teeth in the first grade--you know, when they are 6 or 7. The boy won't even be 5 for three plus more months, so I wasn't even considering there would be teeth issues at this point. That's something, right?


***I had to go back and check to see when he got his first teeth because I was told that in general, the earlier they get their teeth in, the earlier they will fall out. I wrote a post about it on 6/30/08. He was 8 months old. That's not all that early! (He was such a cutie in those days!)