The Big DumpTruck

The tooth is out! Junior ended up yanking the thing out himself!

Why yes, I am one of those loser moms who gets sad when my child hits a major milestone. Wasn’t that tooth just coming in?

Nothing to report here. Junior got new boots (mom picked them up) so that if we do get accumulating snow tomorrow the way they’re predicting, he’ll be all set. Not that I’m voting for snow, but you know darned well that if it did and he didn’t have boots, he’d find a way to go outside barefoot.

The tooth is still hanging in there. I can’t believe it hasn’t fallen out, you have to see this thing.

I broke the 11000 mark this evening. I’m still behind a bit. I think that technically I’m supposed to be closer to 17k, but I just took the balance of what is remaining and divided it by the number of days remaining. I suppose maybe I could catch up the extra 6k over the weekend, but I don’t want to sprain something.

While I type this Mr. Dump is attempting to rip out one of Junior’s teeth. In a good way. That thing is flapping back and forth so loosely that neither of us can figure out how it’s still attached. Unfortunately, the tooth that’s supposed to be pushing it up and out is coming in behind that one, which makes me cringe because he had such lovely, straight baby teeth, and the first grown up tooth is already messed up. Braces. I mean, I love the look of a kid with braces, I really do. My step-kids have them, and I think they look cute on them. I had them. Mr. Dump had them. My sister had them. Was it too much to ask for Junior to have perfect teeth? I guess so.

Time to make another dentist appointment. They said to call when the first big tooth started coming in, and this would be it, eh?

Anyone from Leominster know why Kidzworld on Central Street is closed? Junior loved that place, and I don’t want to tell him it’s gone.

He has a winter birthday, now that’s one less place he can have a party, and I think that stinks.

So Acton has a mountain lion. You know, soon, all the other towns are going to want them. Boxboro will sulk at being overlooked by said mountain lion, and Littleton will have a town meeting to get a prop 2.5 override for the purchase of a mountain lion.

My sister actually lives in Littleton, very close to the Acton border, so this one actually hits a little too close to home. And we have Westford readers here at the Dump, so they should keep an eye out as well.

I knew no good would come of Donelans carrying CougarSnax in the pet aisle.