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Zoolights @ the Phoenix Zoo
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Happy Thanksgiving from Arizona!
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Yesterday, while Cael was minding his own business on the living room couch, Declan bounced, fell, and donkey kicked him in the face. The result was a lot of blood and a seriously wiggly tooth that moments before had only been a gently budging one.
This was very traumatic for poor Cael, who is already missing two on the top - one from an accident on the playground that removed it prematurely - and has only just recently grown his bottom two to the height that they're effective in chewing.
When he went to bed last night he made us assure him, as he always does when his teeth are on their last leg, that he would't swallow it in his sleep. We did.
Which, turns out, was possibly a lie.
About ten minutes after Cael woke up, he was munching happily on his donut when he cried out, "WAIT, IS MY TOOTH GONE?" And it was.
After a search of beds and paths taken, the tooth was not found. No one remembers if he had it before the first bite, so we cannot assure him it was the donut's fault. Basically he will never sleep with a loose tooth again.
To make matters worse, Cael, my sweet sensitive Cael, decided long ago that he wasn't going to exchange his teeth for Tooth Fairy money. Instead, he keeps them all safe in a small treasure box, presumably so he can make a necklace out of them when he completes the collection. Now he's devastated that his collection will be short one tooth - so devastated, in fact, that Ryan made a promise no one wants to keep.
He's vowed to go digging.
Don't worry, we'll sanitize the necklace before we let him wear it.
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Declan's First Day of School!
Baby's first day of school! He was a champ. No clinging, no crying, no "don't go!" or anything. He was a little wary, but ultimately had so much fun with the rubber duckies that he didn't mind when we went back through the gate :(
Update: I arrived to pick him up and found him exactly where I suspected I would: in the sandbox. What I hadn't expected was to find him wearing an entirely different set of clothing. It turns out my brave baby, who has been potty trained for a year (longer than his brothers had been, by far) wet his pants instead of finding his way to the bathroom. He says that the teachers were scary and he didn't want to ask to go. He was not at all upset about having peed himself, though, because the undies he got to borrow were super cool monster ones that he really enjoyed showing off.
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Update: I arrived to pick him up and found him exactly where I suspected I would: in the sandbox. What I hadn't expected was to find him wearing an entirely different set of clothing. It turns out my brave baby, who has been potty trained for a year (longer than his brothers had been, by far) wet his pants instead of finding his way to the bathroom. He says that the teachers were scary and he didn't want to ask to go. He was not at all upset about having peed himself, though, because the undies he got to borrow were super cool monster ones that he really enjoyed showing off.