Spencer has turned into a little explorer/daredevil. He is crawling all over the place and can't sit still for 2 seconds. The worst part is that he pulls himself up to everything. He can't be content with just crawling around, he thinks that he should be walking. 
So about 2 weeks ago, January 2nd to be exact, my brother came over to see the house before heading back up to BYU. I was giving him a tour and Spencer was crawling along behind us. I wasn't watching him very closely. He crawled into our laundry room and stood up to a 3-step step ladder that was folded up and leaning against some boxes. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but he and the step ladder fell. I found him laying on his back crying. There was something that looked like a wad of chewed up paper laying on his tongue. So I scooped that out and picked him up. When I did that, then he started bleeding everywhere. I thought that he might have bit his tongue or cut his mouth somehow. But on further inspection, I realized that his little tooth was missing! I had picked it up off of his tongue, thinking that it was paper, and I wasn't even sure where it ended up. We searched the floor and eventually found it in a fold on his shirt. Spencer seemed to be fine as soon as his mouth stopped bleeding. But it really made me quite upset! We made a number of phone calls, but there was nothing we could do for his poor little tooth. 
So now my little boy just has one little tooth! And he hadn't even had that tooth for 2 months! Jon tried to reassure me that Spencer was not the first baby in the world to lose a tooth, but I asked him if he knew of any other kids loosing a tooth that young. I also took Spencer to the pediatrician Monday morning and the doctor said, "I've never seen a child this young lose a tooth. What happened?" And then, "Let me go and call a pediatric dentist." He will probably need to have a spacer put in when he's about 15 months so that his other little teeth will grow in properly. It still makes me sick to my stomach to think that he knocked his tooth out. And I haven't been able to bring myself to part with the tooth yet. I'm just not sure what to do with it. Sorry I don't have any pictures of him with only his one tooth, but I'll post one if I can ever manage to get one.
So about 2 weeks ago, January 2nd to be exact, my brother came over to see the house before heading back up to BYU. I was giving him a tour and Spencer was crawling along behind us. I wasn't watching him very closely. He crawled into our laundry room and stood up to a 3-step step ladder that was folded up and leaning against some boxes. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but he and the step ladder fell. I found him laying on his back crying. There was something that looked like a wad of chewed up paper laying on his tongue. So I scooped that out and picked him up. When I did that, then he started bleeding everywhere. I thought that he might have bit his tongue or cut his mouth somehow. But on further inspection, I realized that his little tooth was missing! I had picked it up off of his tongue, thinking that it was paper, and I wasn't even sure where it ended up. We searched the floor and eventually found it in a fold on his shirt. Spencer seemed to be fine as soon as his mouth stopped bleeding. But it really made me quite upset! We made a number of phone calls, but there was nothing we could do for his poor little tooth. So now my little boy just has one little tooth! And he hadn't even had that tooth for 2 months! Jon tried to reassure me that Spencer was not the first baby in the world to lose a tooth, but I asked him if he knew of any other kids loosing a tooth that young. I also took Spencer to the pediatrician Monday morning and the doctor said, "I've never seen a child this young lose a tooth. What happened?" And then, "Let me go and call a pediatric dentist." He will probably need to have a spacer put in when he's about 15 months so that his other little teeth will grow in properly. It still makes me sick to my stomach to think that he knocked his tooth out. And I haven't been able to bring myself to part with the tooth yet. I'm just not sure what to do with it. Sorry I don't have any pictures of him with only his one tooth, but I'll post one if I can ever manage to get one.
6 comments:
I'm so sorry! I would have been devastated as well. If or when it happens to me at least I'll know who to call for comfort!
Don't feel bad Kristy. Brigden will be loosing both of his front teeth pretty soon. They are turning brown from his lovely fall breaking his hand. He is only four so he will not have two front teeth for a year or so. Boys are so fun!!!
Wow!! That's crazy! I didn't know a fall like that could pull your tooth out! Poor kid!
So sorry about the tooth! He will be even cuter with a one tooth smile.
Don't worry too much Kristy. Katelyn has been missing that top one since she was about one. I'm actually gonna kinda miss her missing tooth when it finally comes in. I think I've got another year or so to go being that Jenn just lost her two front teeth. He is still just as cute and cuddly!
Oh wow! Saddness! Your kids are so beautiful he'll have no problem pulling off cuteness even without his tooth! :) No joke! Still that's sad! Poor guy.
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