Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Knockout


Jeffrey finally did it. He's been trying for months and he finally succeeded in breaking off one of his two front teeth. He bashed his mouth yesterday at the park. I didn't realize until we got home that he had broken out a tooth. I am sick over it. We saw the dentist today and he can have outpatient surgery at the hospital to have it capped (which will cost lots of $$$$$$$ and he will probably knock that out too) or they can pull it out and he can be a toothless goober until somewhere near 8 yrs of age. Six years being toothless, that's a long time. There is no good solution when you break a tooth out. It's really sad. Most likely we will cap it, he will break the cap, we will have to pull the tooth anyway and later when he goes to apply for college I will explain that he has no college fund, we spent it all on dental care when he was 2.
And this is not an actual picture of Jeffrey, these teeth are much too nice to be Jeffrey's, at this rate when he actually gets to be this boys age I am guessing he will have way fewer, way uglier teeth.

6 comments:

Heather said...

oh my goodness that poor little dude. we need to see a real picture. it's cool though. my brother peter always colors one of his front teeth black to look cool...and jeffy doesn't even have to use a marker!!!

Evan said...

Poor kid!

kim said...

First thing I thought when I read this was "that poor little dude" then saw heather said it first

Jen said...

I'm glad we found you!!!! We always wonder what you guys are up to. I love this post-- Ben just knocked out his two front teeth in August and has been hopelessly toothless ever since!! BOYS!! :)

Tiffany said...

I was looking at that picture and thinking, that doesn't look like Jeffrey! I wonder when it happened at the park!

Tinaya said...

Jen, it has been way too long my old friend! I saw your blog on Candice's and had to check it out. It seems like you little family is doing well. We need to catch up sometime. Your kids are darling and getting so big!