Toothless in the Park

Last night when I was putting Katie to bed, she heard a siren and said, "Fire truck? Fire truck?" Then, she said, "pray?" so we prayed for the person who needed help. It was an encouraging end to a pretty tough Mother's Day. Little did Katie or I know that a fire truck and ambulance were coming to help her today!

While playing at the park, Katie slipped off her little step while looking at the "duckies" and fell today. Because of the amount of blood and screaming, and out of caution, our sitter called EMS. So, both a fire truck and EMS arrived full of six nice men who officially diagnosed Katie as front-toothless! She lost both of her top two front teeth! Ugh. It makes me so sick. But I am counting my blessings that she was not otherwise injured.

Here are a few videos of Katie narrating her incident... after the initial shock wore off, she became mostly obsessed with the "mess" in her mouth and kept asking for wipees! When she discovered the blood on her shirt, she said "eeeww! clean shirt! cow poopoo!" There was cow manure used as fertilizer recently at the park, which I explained to the girls... it always amazes me that they really listen and file away somewhere everything we say! You can also hear her saying, "look at duckies", which was the last thing she remembers before the big "fall". She also told me on the way home that her teeth "go away"... "to park"

When we got home, on the first time she put her paci in her mouth, she immediately removed it and said "teeth! teeth!" Jake was slightly disappointed that she quickly adjusted and found a way to maintain her relationship with the dreaded paci.

Mimi and Popop came to the rescue, as usual! However, the rescue vehicle got a little stuck... ask Mimi! It's confidential. I could tell you, but then I would have to... you know.

One of the lost teeth was found, root and all. But, even after the EMS and fire fighters and kind strangers at the park searched, the other missing tooth never was discovered. So, after school, Abby asked to return to the park to the "scene of the crime" to continue looking for Katie's tooth. It would have been a great story if she had actually found it.

Abby will be sad that the tooth fairy will visit her LITTLE sister tonight before her first tooth even gets loose! Then again, tooth fairy should not go overboard or Abby might come up with a way to lose a tooth real fast! :-)