Baby Girl is not so baby anymore!

Guess who has a wiggly tooth!  Last night at dinner I noticed one of Athena's teeth looked a little crooked.  I checked it out and it's totally wiggly!  Baby girl has her first loose tooth:)   It's pretty wiggly and I think it will probably be out in the next few weeks. 
I have to say, I'm surprised she has a loose tooth already.  In my early years of teaching when I taught 4K, I never had a 4K-er lose a tooth. She first turned 5 in December!

It's the bottom middle right one (her right)

I was further shocked when I looked closer and saw that the permanent tooth is already showing through behind this wiggly one!  See it back there?  

Here she is showing off the little wiggler, pushing it with her tongue. 

She's constantly wiggling on it now and feeling the new one behind it now that I pointed it out to her. 

She's pretty excited and has been asking a zillion questions about the tooth fairy now:)  I have several cute books at work about the tooth fairy that we use during our Dental Week. I'll have to borrow some to bring home to read to her. 

Playdough. Who knew?

As an Early Childhood professional I know what a great tool playdough is for helping to improve the fine motor skills of preschool and kindergarten age children.  When Alton's daily note the other day said that he had a great time playing with playdough at daycare that day though, I though "Yeah. Right.  Playdough with 1 year olds?  If I gave Alton playdough to play with right now all he would do is throw it and try to eat it."  Athena heard me tell John about it on the phone though and wanted to give it a try with him.  Alton's big sissy is always looking out for him:)  We gave it a whirl and I was pleasantly shocked!   


He had a great time ripping it all up into little bits.  Talk about a good fine motor exercise!  Expecially for a boy!

 


We had minimal eating attempts.

  


Of coarse banging the container on the table was great fun. 

 


Looking adorable while trying to get the lid back on the can:)

 


Dumping the pieces out of the can...

 


...and then loading them back in again and again  turned out to be tons of fun too:) 

 Now I"m a believer and realize you can do playdough with a rowdy, 'high energy' one year old boy.  He sat nice and played with it for at least 10 minutes!  We'll be doing it again very soon:)