Haiku Friday

Mouth patrol over
I'm free! I'm free! squeals Jeffrey
I'm free! sighs Mommy

The doctor prescribed five days of "mouth rest" are over for our 10-months-old-today Jeffrey. The dentist said that would give his loose replaced tooth the best chance of catching hold again. He is reveling in his new freedom away from a crazy mommy who carried him everywhere, constantly pulling his hands out of his mouth and grabbing everything fun from his reach. I'm quite relieved too -- that was totally exhausting!! My nine and ten-month-olds have always LIVED to put anything and everything in their mouths. It's how they learn! Trying to prevent that 24/7 that was very frustrating for both of us.

There's no guarantees the tooth will heal, even years later it may have a more tenuous hold than his other teeth (well, not the one they pulled out completely, LOL, that's in my dresser in a baggie).

Now that I've grossed you all out completely, I promise to stop talking about it. ;-)

Happy Friday! I'm off to reclaim the house and children that turned wild while my attention was necessarily on the baby. :)

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