Ch. 254; Vol. 10
“Agh! I just chunked my tooth again!”
Puck ran to the bathroom for a tissue. Two wobbly front teeth, hanging by threads for weeks.
“IT CAME OUT! IT CAME OUT IN THE BOX! I SPIT OUT MY TOOTH!”
Third Lost Tooth: 8AM; Upper Left Central Incisor
“Agh! I have to get another tissue! It’s bleeding!”
SPIT! SPIT! SPIT!
“Son, stop spitting all over the floor…” Bær shook his head, laughing.
I washed the prize to put in the little glass bottle with the cork top.
An hour later…
“MOM! THE OTHER TOOTH CAME OUT! I ATE A BANANA AND IT CAME OUT!”
Fourth Lost Tooth: 9AM; Upper Right Central Incisor
That’s the way to start a morning.
But Crackers wasn’t amused. She thinks she’s a dog, but still shares no interest in family events.
“She is a dog. Remember?” toothless Puck told me. “She’s pretending to be a dog.”
Yesterday he concluded that because the two dogs in the neighbor’s yard were her only source of animalistic example, Crackers therefore aspired to be a dog.
“Aaaallll I want is my two front teeth, my two front teeth, my two front teeth!!” Shirley Temple. Puck eliminated the whole Christmas thing because, as he expressly told me with almost-concern, “I don’t only want my new teeth for Christmas.” Just to make that one crystal clear…
Puck grinned for Mom.
“Whoa, Puck! I think this calls for a celebration!”
That celebration later that afternoon came in the form of Orange Leaf frozen yogurt.
Paint rollers spread charcoal and pale green-gray in the basement staircase. Carrie was at it again. Sunrise to sunset.
While I worked algebraic problems with Linnea in Mom’s and Dad’s room, Pumpkin head-rammed her, purring like a great lion. Then the beast plopped herself on Linnea’s back, shedding black fur on her pink volleyball jersey with crushing weight. She knew who owned her.
It was another year of Wednesday nights. Were we really starting Year Four? Church History for me: September through May.
Puck obviously kept his teachers amused while I was in the other classroom.
“Keep those other teeth in your mouth now,” one of them laughed. “Who has their tooth fall out from a banana?”
