No. 6 just ran into the family room to tell me "I have a ton of teeth back here," and to point to the place where she'd discovered her molars (do little kids have molars, or are they called something else?). She also explained that the teeth don't go any further back because "that's your cheek."In about another year she'll be starting to lose them. Life is funny that way.
I wonder what's the deep significance of losing your baby teeth.
In other news, today I explained to her how you get to have cousins (i.e., when siblings grow up and marry and start new families, their kids are cousins). She found this to be a wonderful truth, fit for repeating and curiously giggle-inspiring. She also remarked that the reciprocal nature of cousinhood (e.g., I am Caleb's cousin and he is, likewise, my cousin) is like the reciprocal nature of neighborhood (e.g., I am my neighbor's neighbor and he is my neighbor).
It was a kind of weird connection for a 4-year-old to make.
But I was impressed.
4 comments:
Kids are cute. :-)
By the way, very odd question from long ago, but what relation was the Dendrophile to you? I've forgotten now.
The dendrophile is my cousin. I need to check to see whether he still feels the same way about trees.
(He's 10 now! We are old!)
You make me wish I had a little sister.
Oh man, we are old...
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