A New Look

Last night Miles woke up in the middle of the night with a fever and his other big front tooth hanging by a thread. If you recall losing your teeth as a baby, when a big tooth is still attached but by a dinky root, it's ...uncomfortable. There was to be no touching or even talking about the tooth, let alone pulling or twisting it. Miles had caught the fever his sister had last weekend, coupled with the dangling, darkening front tooth...and in the middle of the night...he was pitiful. 

As I lifted the mixing bowl to him when we thought a puke was coming on, he said, "You're being a good mom." Positive reinforcement in action! It gave me just enough energy to stay up with him until he finally fell asleep. In the morning, he felt all better, and the tooth was out!

Now he's enjoying a day off of school: from bed this morning, Can you bring me the iPad? After two hours of Angry Birds and Cut the Rope, he hung out in the little avocado tree sining Ah-bi-yoyo, Ah-bi-yoyo...(he says it's from the book which the music teacher read to them...about a giant who lives in Africa called Yoyo. Ah...this is it! Pete Seeger...who would have guessed.) 

After some jumping on the trampoline, practicing the hold-one-foot-while-bouncing-on-the-other-foot trick, he has come in here to ask me 1) if I can draw Ingromination and 2) where is Momo (our nickname for Mambo...but he's only asking because that's what King Boomy said in the last episode of Avatar: the last Airbender.) I'm thinking we should get his hair cut!

Abomination, aka Ingrommination, Miles's selection