My Facebook memories kindly informed me that it has been EIGHT YEARS since I had my gallbladder removed. Ah, fun times.  Actually, the pain that triggered the whole thing was just incredibly bad.  Once I knew what was going on, I could at least avoid triggering another attack.  And then recovering from surgery was tough.  […]

Thumper learned a valuable lesson yesterday.  Never try to pull open your water-bottle valve with your teeth, especially when you have a loose tooth. That is the other center front tooth, which was the next one up… but it wasn’t ready to be pulled.  Thumper doesn’t wiggle his loose teeth – at least, not yet […]

It blows my mind, because it took a long time to happen, and yet… MY BABY LOST A TOOTH. Thumper’s front right bottom incisor had been wiggly for a while, but wasn’t bothering him and didn’t seem to want to move.  And unlike other kids, he had no inclination/idea to work the wiggle to lose […]

Two years have gone by since Rerun was toothless. I loved this stage so much. Rerun has lost six teeth total so far – he seems to be kind of taking his time.  Thumper is now six and a half, and only now is one of his baby teeth developing a definite wiggle.  Given all […]