My baby boy is 6 1/2 years old. His bottom teeth got wiggly...but did not come out....I was glad...as long as he had all of his baby teeth...he wasn't getting too big...he wasn't that grown up yet. Then his adult teeth started to grow in behind those little baby teeth on the bottom. The dentist said they may need to come out....but not right now. *sigh* Finally, after months....one of the bottom teeth became very wiggly. I couldn't believe it.
This was the very tooth (on the lower left) that I can remember as if it was yesterday finding in his mouth. He was just 3 1/2 months old and I was cleaning his little gums with a cloth...when I saw that little tell-tail grain of white coming through his gums. This very tooth that now was wiggly...the little tooth that made him seem so much more like a baby than a gummy infant was now going to usher in a new stage of maturity.
On October 19, 2009, my little boy sat in my lap and we wiggled and wiggled that precious tooth. And finally, Daddy got the plyers so he could get a better grip on the tooth and he pulled it right out of my baby's mouth. There it is was in my hand. The very little tooth that I discovered over 6 years ago in my baby's mouth. I held that tiny little tooth in my hand and cried. I held my little boy....my baby and we cried together. I am so lucky to be blessed with the sweetest boy in the whole world....and I am so thankful for that. I held that little tooth in my hand....and felt the greatness of the love that I feel for my children.
I love you John Paul Butler Carson....now and always. And every time I look at that tiny little tooth I will think of that day that I first saw it...and of this day in October...when I held you and felt overwhelmed with love for you, my sweet boy.
Love,
Mommy
