The Nineteenth Tooth
Simon didn't sleep well on Friday. When he woke up at 11 pm we thought it might have been because he was in a blanket sleeper. It was a cold night so we put him in the zip-up footy pajamas for the first time since last winter. After it was zipped up, Simon asked: "Where'd da belly button go?" We haven't mentioned it before but Simon is very attached to his belly button, when eating he likes to try to stuff food into it, when frustrated he grabs his belly and squeezes, and when he is tired, he rubs and holds his hands over his belly. After removing the pajamas and restoring access to his belly button, Simon went back to sleep. It was when he awoke again at 4 am screaming and crying that we realized that something more serious was bothering him. The next morning we noticed a new molar on the bottom right to pair with his new molar on the bottom left. This tooth slipped in relatively undetected. Our focus had been the upper left molar which is just now breaking through the gum but has been pushing through for weeks.
We're eighteen and a quarter down, one and three-quarters to go.
