The Growing Walnuts: Teeth Talk

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Teeth Talk

There's lots of talk about teeth these days in our house. Esme woke up with a sore mouth during Labor Day weekend and turns out she had two loose teeth - the bottom central incisors. And then this past weekend she lost her first one! She just came off the floor at gymnastics and had her tooth in her hand. I was shocked! I was expecting a lot of tears and a tooth dangling by a thread for a week but she braved it. She said it was extra loose that day and so she just reached in and yanked it out. It's amazing how much she's matured since the twins were born and since starting kindergarten. She's a whole new kid sometimes.

Anyways, that night she had a sleepover with her cousins so I told her the tooth fairy only visits when she sleeps in her own bed so we waited till the next night. She dutifully put her tooth in a little heart shaped pillow and placed that under her pillow. Then in the morning Chan woke right up and came bawling out of his room. I asked him what was wrong and he said "the tooth fairy didn't come to my room." Ha ha! I guess we didn't explain that part to him. He wanted to go in Mimi's room and wake her up to see what she got. Too cute! Esme had a whole story about how she woke up when the tooth fairy came and they hung out. Pretty funny stuff! We recently read this book called April and Esme Tooth Fairies that's adorable and you should check it out if you get the chance. I'm thinking this was her inspiration.

The babes are also teething it seems. Everything goes to their mouth, there's lots of drool, they love it when you rub your finger along their gums, and they've been batting at their ears for awhile too. Still no signs of any teeth though. Eve is now rolling over both ways and pretty comfortable with that. Poppy can do it but she's content on just one side where Eve just wants to keep on moving. Poppy has found her toes though and loves grabbing those. She has yet to get them to her mouth though and Eve still hasn't touched her toes.

The girls are definitely plumping up too as we just switched them to size 2 diapers. And I recently packed up all the 3 month clothes and they're fitting in 6 month gear. They're catching up! They'll be 6 months next week and we just started them on solid foods too. Eve of course loved it and Poppy is still figuring it out. So far they've had rice cereal, carrots, and peas. No more breastfed poops :( It's completely stinky now.