Oldie but goodie while I wait for film to be processed.
6/28/2011
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5/16/2011
laces vs. velcro
My eldest son, Cleveland, knocked out his two front teeth doing gymnastics last week. It was scary; lots of blood and hard to tell what was going on in his mouth. A friend was there so she took my younger son to my mom's and Cleveland and I headed to the emergency room. He was in shock at first and I had to carry him into the hospital. Luckily, there was a TV in the waiting room and that immediately revived him. The doctor told us that he couldn't do anything for us and that we should head to the dentist in the morning, so we headed home. On the way back, Cleveland asked if I had noticed one of the TV commercials where there were 2 skateboarders - one with lace up shoes and the other with velcro. I hadn't, but apparently the velcro guy sailed gracefully, with his skateboard, over the dumpy guy with laces while he was bending over to tie his (stupid) shoes. Another reason that my son does not feel the need to master tying his shoes. This makes me wonder more about the skills we'll lose along the way due to technology. Shoe tying, handwriting. Is it ok? What's lost here and what do we gain in its place?
Then he went on and on about how there were a lot of good things about knocking out his front teeth: an early visit from the tooth fairy (x2), milkshake for dinner, etc. I felt proud of him for being so brave and a little sad that I had not looked at the winning, baby-toothed smile a little more carefully before he walked into gymnastics that day.
5/09/2011
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