My Little Boy Is Getting All Growed Up
If it wasn’t bad enough that Ethan is getting ready to turn 5 years old this Saturday, he just informed me that one of his teeth is loose. I gave it a little wiggle and it’s definitely coming out soon. When did my little baby get so big? It seems like just yesterday that Andrew and I hung around the hospital, nervously haunting the NICU while Ethan lay there in his basinette with tubes and wires sticking out of him all over. When he was a week old, we had 7 rolls of film developed, all pictures of our new little boy. We would spend hours happily sitting on the floor with him picking out toy after toy and watching his little round face erupt in grins with each new treasure. I remember watching my little 10 month old boy standing in the library’s reading room next to his little girlfriend while the two of them happily clapped their hands and danced along with the songs the librarian sang to the kids. And now suddenly he’s going to turn 5 years old and lose his first tooth. When did he even have time to get so big? And what’s the going rate for the Tooth Fairy nowadays, anyway?
