Tooth-loss count: Hanny - 3; Doodle - 1; Boo - 2

We are right in the middle of a massive tooth-loss around here. With three kiddos the same age, it's bound to happen that way, I guess. It seems like there's always somebody who has either just lost a tooth or has a loose one. Boo just lost her second one on Labor Day, and Hanny & Doodle each have a tooth that is hanging by a thread. I should tell you (or maybe I shouldn't even admit it) that of all the things I've had to see in their short lives - the many tests, changing their Mic-Key buttons, re-dressing their g-tube holes, etc. - the thing that grosses me out the most is those wiggly, wobbly, barely-hanging-on teeth. Oh yeah, when their buttons would accidentally be pulled out after a feeding and we had all their stomach contents on their shirts and a gaping hole into their abdomens, that I could handle. Watching their teeth hang sideways in their mouths gives me the creeps. But I digress... Hanny was wiggling her tooth (not with her fingers - it's now loose enough to wiggle with her lips) this evening and told me, "Mama, I can wiggle my tooth and make it feel like my heart beeping."

They're enjoying school, although by this time of the week they're looking forward to having the weekend off. They got their first book order books last week and are having so much fun reading them. We got one set of 5 early reader books that they can read now. It's so much fun to have them be able to read to us now. We still spend part of each day reading to them, but it's nice to see them developing into readers already. I was inconspicuously watching/listening to them this afternoon reading to their animals. After reading the books they could actually read they moved on to books that they could pick a few words out of but make up the story as they went. I peeked at Doodle just in time to see her holding the book in front of her and showing the pictures to her stuffed animals. Too cute! I hope the develop the same love of books that I have. I love to curl up with a good book and some hot tea. Sounds like a good thing to do right now...