Little Bites

Arabella cut her first tooth on Wednesday (3/11 when I comb through this blog for facts about Bella for her baby book.) It is the lower right tooth. When I face her, it is the left tooth, so that makes it her right tooth. Have I mentioned I hate left and right? What a stupid concept. If someone tried to introduce this style of moving direction…it would fail.

Six months old and she cut her first tooth. Grandma said she had to “first” something over the other two. They both waited until 7 months.

Miranda has been working on her second teeth. We made the trip to the free consultation at the orthodontist. If we paid him, do you think he might have been more optimistic? The treatment – palette widening spacer applicances now, braces when she has all adult teeth – makes sense to me because it is the same treatment I had. The spacing appliance is crazy. It is removable for brushing. It has tiny little screws to be turned 3x a week. I don’t like this removable business. I can hear the begging now. Just out for 1/2 an hour?

The cost was sending me straight to the classified employment ads. As an aside, there are no jobs now. Miranda seems to have inherited my teeth to some degree. If the children are similar and the retail cost for orthodontic treatment is $5K per child…let’s just say I better get to work. Then the insurance estimate came through and the thought of $3K per child is so much more soothing.Which is to say, I am delusional.

Bella screams whenever her sharp little tooth touches her tender gum. I think we might see tooth #2 in the near future. And maybe it will be better spaced than Miranda and Henry’s adorable pearly whites, but I doubt it.