The Little Man had some exciting news for us this morning when we woke up. He came into our room, unusually bright-eyed, and said, “You know what? I have a wiggly tooth!”
So he does. And that marks a new milestone: the Little Man’s first loose tooth. It’s his lower left-center tooth, what a dentist would call, I think, 24d, or a central incisor. I have some vague memories of my first loose tooth, at roughly the same age as the Little Man, and I seem to recall being slightly terrified of the whole matter. Not the Little Man. He was eagerly enthusiastic, and it was catching. The Little Miss started checking her own teeth, on the off chance that she, too, might have a wiggly tooth.
In my Going Paperless posts, I’ve written about how one of the ways I use Evernote is to keep track of our kids’ milestones. I sometimes get questions about what those milestones might be, or what they look like in Evernote. Well, this is a good example of one of them, and here is what it looks like in Evernote (filed in my Timeline notebook and tagged with the Little Man’s name, and “milestone”):