"Twothless"

Thursday was a day that will definitely be one to be marked down on the Mall family memory calendar. I wish that I could say that it was all giggles and smiles, but it wasn’t.


That afternoon when the bus pulled up to our street, the last thing I expected to see when the doors opened was my son in tears with blood all over his shirt and blood stains on his face. Panic mode immediately kicked in! Why was my son covered in blood? The bus driver stopped the bus, walked Travin down to me, and explained what had happened. Apparently the kindergartner (a little boy) who sits next to Travin on the bus, decided that he wanted to play a punching game. He punched Trav in the face and knocked out his two bottom teeth. I swear I wish I could make this stuff up! The bus driver asked me if his teeth were loose. I explained to her that one was almost ready to come out but that the other one still had some time. I had just wiggled both of them that morning. Our bus driver is absolutely wonderful and I don’t blame her at all. She felt so horrible for Travin. She kept hugging him and apologizing to me. On the positive side, the incident happened before the bus left the school. The principal was able to get involved. She pulled the little boy off the bus, wrote him up, and called his parents to pick him up. Luckily I was able to calm Travin down pretty quickly. I think he just needed a special “Travin-Mommy Hug” :)

We put his two little teeth in his special tooth pillow in hopes that the Tooth Fairy would make an early appearance. The Tooth Fairy came and did what she does best, but unfortunately, Travin wasn’t as excited about her appearance as we had hoped. He was pretty upset that the she took his teeth. Not exactly the reaction I was expecting. I think he is the first child I have ever met to be upset that he had money waiting under his pillow instead of his teeth!

This isn't exactly the way we wanted Travin to experience his first tooth loss. The good news is that he is a boy. The whole ordeal is old news now. We have moved on to bigger and better things :)

I lost two teeth they left a space

So big my tongue can touch my face

Now every time I smile I show

The place where something new will grow.

I miss my teeth as you can guess

But for now I get to brush two less!