Did I mention that on our Easter weekend hike Cohen fell? We hiked Dreamy Draw where there were a few teeny hills/rocky areas where I felt a strong motherly urge to hold Cohen's hand tight to make sure he would be ok. Well, he did not fall on one of those areas. He fell on the trail that you see in this picture. He was walking, I went ahead a few feet to look at a sign to see if we could take a shortcut back to the car, when I heard Cohen start to cry. I looked back and saw that he fell. I said some encouraging words to get him to stand back up and come to me. It was taking him some time to get up and he continued to cry pretty hard when I went to him to see what was wrong. When I got to him, his mouth was covered in blood, I took a look to see where it was coming from and I noticed that his front, right tooth was pretty much shoved as far up and back as it could go without falling out our breaking completely. I had Tim run him to the dentist right away.
The dentist took X-rays and told us that there was nothing we could do but wait. So, we waited and waited. Today (April 24th) we took Cohen back in to the dentist because it was still loose and causing him pain when he eats and brushes his teeth. To make a long story short, after another X-ray, it was determined that the tooth was abscessed and needed to come out, right away. Today, Cohen is 2 years and 5 months and he just lost his front tooth. I am so sad!!! I had to live without a front tooth of my own from 2nd grade to 5th grade and it was horrible. Luckily, Cohen is younger than I was, but I was still so sad (I got tears in my eyes when they told me it had to go.)
Of course, he did wonderful! He did not cry and all he got was a shot to numb him.
Here is the baby tooth. You can probably see that it was turning brown after the fall.
And here is my happy boy showing off his new smile! I have to admit that he is still dang cute even without a front tooth!!!!!
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