On The Topic Of Teeth
Zeke lost his first tooth! Right after his sixth birthday. If memory serves me correctly, that’s about when I lost my first tooth. I also remember being so scared to go to school with a loose tooth, and crying, begging my mother to let me stay home! The boys have been so brave about the whole loosing teeth thing. Zeke’s tooth actually fell out at school (the reason for the little envelope) and he thought that was so cool.
(It looks like we’re going to have two lower central incisers growing for the one that Zeke lost. Phoebe is getting her first tooth…in the very same spot where Zeke lost his! It will be interesting to see if Zeke’s tooth loss/Phoebe’s teething pattern will be the same.)
Some of you may remember this comment, from way back in April of 2007…
How many teeth has Zeke lost and when did he start? This usually has more to do with small motor skill development than anything else.
I had written a bit about Zeke’s preschool teacher saying that he needed to work on his small motor skills, and about his general disinterest in things like drawing, printing, coloring. His Grampie left the above comment in responce.
And then there’s this one from even farther back, in September of 2006, also from Grampie Horsman…
The chemical change in your body which causes you to loose teeth is the same change which helps you develop coordination and concentration. That’s why, in the Academy, we never pushed the children to do what we felt was “good work†until they started loosing teeth.
I am now truly a believer! I had started to notice just a couple of months ago that Zeke’s dexterity had gotten much better, and that he seemed to actually like drawing and coloring now! Very interesting.
And also on the topic of lost teeth, remember this post, about Elijah losing one of his top front teeth, and the little, twenty second video that we linked to - “Elijah The Toothless Whistler?” Up until about a week ago, it had had about 70 hits, but now, mysteriously, it’s had over 1500! How wierd. And some people aren’t very happy about being “forced” to watch a twenty second video of a kid who “can barely whistle!” We’ve deleted some of the nastier comments, but some of them we left, ’cause they’re just so silly. I wonder what exactly they thought “Elijah The Toothless Whistler” would be about, anyway?