13 June 2008

Growing pains

The not-so-little one complained that one of her teeth is wobbly. Finally! The first baby tooth is coming out. I was all for it to come off naturally but a week later, we saw the permanent tooth surfacing a little crooked. Off to the school dentist we went.

I've not been to a school dentist some 20 odd years! The horrible dental nurse in my primary school really put me off going to the dentist. I still had visions of that horrid woman screaming and shouting at me. Thank goodness dentists and dental assistants nowadays are much more child friendly.

The lovely lady attending the not-so-little one talked to her about cartoons, about princesses and other things. Took her mind off when it came to anaesthetise the gum for the extraction and another filling.

The most pleasant thing is she checked Alia's mouth and told me three of the adult molars at the back had surfaced. I just realised how much she had grown!

The tiny baby tooth was given to her to be taken home and I was talking about tooth fairy and how much would the tooth fairy leave. Strangely, she just does not want to have the money, preferring to keep the tooth instead. How much as she grown!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please tell her that Aunty E misses her a lot!!!!

Sigh...our girls are indeed growing up.

ps: hope we get to see you this Aug.

Elly's mum

Lee said...

Hi Lady, terima kaseh seribu. By the way, how you found me? Yellow pages? Ha ha.
Your this post very interesting.
Ya la, my young school days, we were all frightened of the school dentist.
I dare swear he used pliers on our teeth. Should see some kids run, ha ha, me too!
Wow! You saw that white bikini, huh? Would have sold my grandmother to see it, ha ha.
You have a nice day, Lee.

yuRa said...

what?? it's the first one to come off for her? wow! lambat eh!

melayudilondon said...

tu ah beb. lambat seh

Kak Teh said...

adoi, this is showing our age gap - her permanent tooth coming while ours coming out! aiyahhhhhh!

missing u all lah...now panas and had you all been here we'd be having several rounds of BBQ's and mee bandungs already!

Lee said...

Hey...You MIA suda lama? Just dropped by wish you hello. Lee.

Yeukie said...

a few more years and she'll regret having kept the tooth. add some more years, she'll be thankful she really did keep the tooth after all. sigh, the human condition...