When Olivia was 2 years old she had an accident involving a collision of her two front teeth and our raised, stone fireplace hearth. It was nasty. Suprisingly enough, once her teeth grew back down out of her gums, they came out of the whole ordeal looking decently normal. Until recently.Wierd stuff started happening with them, and so the dentist recommended that they both be pulled and the gums cleaned up in order to get everything ready for the permanent teeth that would be coming down sometime in the next year or so. Deal. And let's be sure to get this done before we're off to Adam's brother's wedding and all the pictures that will be taken. Can't have a girl with crazy teeth in those, now can I!
In order to get her ready for this event I told her all about when I was in Kindergarten and I had a bike accident that left me two-front-teeth-less (and I stayed that way until almost the end of 3rd grade) and how that night my parents bought me a milkshake for dinner and that I got to eat it in my Grandma Smith's bed watching TV and feeling rather pampered. So I promised her a shake for dinner, even though I couldn't promise a night out at Grandma's. And then I told her about the song she could sing at Christmas wishing for two new front teeth....to which she basically replied, "Why would only want two front teeth for Christmas?"
Now, the big day has come, and she was a champ. The earlier picture is her coming home from the extraction (as they call it) feeling a bit tenuous about smiling, but by the afternoon she was ready to hit the pool.
Looking good, eh!
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Yes, we know that ordeal well around here. Alison had her front tooth pulled (two years after an unfortunate accident) when she was 4. She is still missing said tooth, and still has all her others. =( I did think Olivia looked mighty darling with her missing teeth yesterday!
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