Some Pictures and stories to go with them

Little boy had a loose tooth for about two weeks. Here is a picture I took of his loose tooth.

Healthy pink tonsils, wouldn't you agree? The loose tooth is the lower front incisor on the left.

Sunday, it became so loose that he could make it almost horizontal. He decided he wanted someone to pull it out after church. But almost as soon as we got home, he pulled it out himself. It bled a little, and he gagged a little on the blood, but overall it was completely painless. Here is a picture of his new smile.

The new tooth has emerged quite a bit. We put the baby tooth in an envelope so it wouldn't get lost, and left it for the tooth fairy. She gave him a whole dollar for it. I only used to get a quarter for my teeth, but a dollar doesn't buy as much as it used to...probably about a quarter's worth.

Last week, Little Boy brought home a friend named Snopp to spend the night with us. Snopp is blue, and he lives at school. Everybody in Little Boy's class gets a turn to bring him home where he can join in family activities. Snopp brought a book with him, in which Little Boy's classmates had written about Snopp's adventures on his other visits. During his visit to our house, he and Little Boy watched TV and played. Snopp went out to dinner with us to the pizza buffet, where the waitress was very friendly to him. When we got home, Daddy vacuumed Snopp so he'd be all clean at bedtime. Then Snopp slept in Big Brother's bed, because Big Brother is away at college. Little Boy drew pictures and dictated the story of Snopp's visit to his daddy, and put the story in Snopp's book.

Here is a picture of Snopp tucked in for the night.

He is sleeping with Swimmy the Mardi Gras fish, so he won't be lonely.