Tough Nugget

Toothless...

Poor Ava...she is a little disaster. At the age of two, she still hasn't figured out that if you are going to fall on your face, especially from the third step of metal stairs, you really should put your hands out so your face doesn't break your fall. Another factor leading to the face-first-fall was that she was holding a Thomas the Train toy in her hand. She doesn't give up Thomas for anything--not even for pavement and metal zooming toward her face. Now she has a missing tooth--including the entire root--to put under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy.

Suck Factor #1:

• It was the tooth next to the very front one, on the right, on the bottom. The reason that this is suck factor #1 is because when she smiles, only her bottom teeth show. This could call for tricky photography skills by Jake & me for the next few years.

Suck Factor #2:

• We have had to reschedule her pictures for this year several times due to work conflicts. It looks as though we waited one week too long.

Suck Factor #3:

• It probably hurts. (This maybe should have been suck factor #1)
  

On the Bright Side:

• She will look perfectly normal in about 5 years.

On the Even Brighter Side:

• This could have been a much bigger disaster if she had also split her face open. But she didn't. As a matter of fact, she doesn't even have a scratch on her face or her mouth...inside or out. So, there will be no scars to remind her of the accident.

She is seriously one tough little nugget. She didn't even cry when it happened. Until she had her mouth rinsed out. Apparently, she does not like that at all. Other than that, you would never even know she lost a tooth! Unless, of course, you look at her.

P.S. Her dental coverage started January 1st!!