Tooth drama

My kids have some jacked up teeth.

Last year, Landry's adult teeth came in BEHIND her baby teeth. The two bottom ones were about half way up before they finally pushed out the two baby teeth in front. For several weeks we had a very nice, showey shark smile. It was nice that she never had a gap though - the new teeth were right there to take the place of the old. Her top teeth have been loose for a few weeks but slow progress and no sign of shark teeth on these... but she did find some new molars coming in the other day. Good lord, that kid is going to have a very full mouth soon.

Then Megan found the beginnings of HER shark mouth last week. She has one bottom tooth that is almost all the way in and the baby tooth in front is starting to sag forward.... a great, snaggley look. I think she is avoiding the baby tooth though - b/c if it were me, I'd have messed with it until it fell out - like two weeks ago.

I guess I should go ahead and invest in a tooth fairy pillow - can't borrow their cousin's pillow forever and it doesn't look like I'm going to learn to sew in time to create my own. Ho hum.

I did take them to get their pics done about two weeks ago though -- my thought was I better get that done before they had gappy smiles. I guess it didn't occur to me that ALL of my kids would grow adult teeth before they lost their baby teeth. Constantly rejuevenating smiles.

We register for kindergarten on Thursday. Where does the time go? For God's sake... hurry! :)

PS - will try to post some of the pics from JCPenney - most are very good, but when you copy from the website the resolution is so bad that you almost can't make out the race of the children. We'll see if I can get anything to show up.