A toothy week

On the 26th I got a call around noon from the school saying that Christopher had slipped on the ice and fell and messed up his mouth pretty bad. When I went to pick him up he had busted up his 2 front teeth really bad and had a bloody lip. Our dentist was great and got us right in. They built Christopher's teeth back up with white resin fillings and they should do him good for a couple of years, but those teeth will eventually have to be capped. He also had chipped some molars when he bit down during the fall and those required what they called a "baby root canal" and silver caps. Since they are baby teeth they will fall out. Overall he had a dentist in his mouth for about 90 minutes and it took large shots of novacaine to numb him for everything... including one in the roof of his mouth. He didn't flinch or act like anything hurt the whole time. I think I would have been bawling. On the 27th, Xander (to his GREAT horror) lost his first baby tooth. He went to be claiming to never speak or open his mouth again. He was singing a different tune the next morning when he discovered the crisp one dollar bill the tooth fairy had left him. On the 28th we discovered that Eliza had cut ***4 NEW TEETH*** over the course of the week. No wonder she had been so grumpy! She's gone from 2 to 6 teeth in days! We're just waiting for something toothy with Darci now.