Alex, growing up too fast!

Alex lost yet another tooth this week. So now he has a GAPING hole, where two of his baby teeth used to be right in the front. :D He now loses air when he talks and can't pronounce the "th" sound very well. hehe He was sooooo anxious to lose that second tooth, he pretty much twisted out of existence. Bloody and all. Eek!



Well see, he was always one of those kids that the "myth" didn't reach. While "they" say that mascots shouldn't take off their costumes in front of kids because it would "crush" them, and their fantasy of mascots being REAL, Alex asked me when he was 3 "who's inside the mascot, Mommy?" He asked me whether Santa Claus was real at 4 and whether Tooth Fairy was real at 6, after losing his first baby tooth. LOL there's no fooling this kid! He had decided that the so-called "Tooth Fairy" was just his parents giving him money and saving his baby tooth as a memento that no one would ever want to look at, but we save anyway. Alas... he doesn't care, as long as he gets his dollar!

But this time, after showing me his bloody tooth and the bloody hole where the tooth had been, and after being sent back to bed, I found him half an hour later, pouring over a tissue with a blue sharpie, with a note to the "tooth fairy", bargaining how much she should pay him for the tooth! Yes, there's blue words left on the sheet on his bed! (sharpie + tissue = mess!)

Ok... moving on from the tooth...

Today, he decided to take apart one of those one-time-use cameras. He painstakingly took apart every single little part inside and laid out every piece on the little table. (Mommy made sure it was on the table rather than the floor, cuz I KNOW I'd be stepping on it middle of the night otherwise!) Then he announced solemnly that he was going to make an invention out of it. Only, the invention looked a lot like how the camera used to be, only this time, it's put together with superglue... "Just call me Inventor Alex" he exclaimed.


Aha!