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Date: 20 June 2008 16:04:17
Crawler may be almost walking now, but she still only has 5 teeth. This, as Toddler observed at dinner last night, is not very good for eating cabbage. Toddler, of course, had no problem with the meal. He has good teeth. And he's obsessed with cleaning them at the moment.
Half an hour after tucking the kids in bed last night I heard the pitter-patter of not-so-tiny feet. Toddler was located standing by the sink, toothbrush and paste in hand.
“What are you doing?”
“I clean my teeth, or they fall out”
Rather than tell him off, we had to praise him for this action... after all, us naughty parents had forgotten to clean his teeth that evening, and it showed that he has a pretty good understanding of the whole brush-regularly-to-avoid-tooth-decay thing. However, we did try to explain he only needed to clean his teeth once at bedtime. And after his teeth had been appropriately scrubbed, he was returned to his bed and told to stay there.
So we were less impressed when about two hours later Toddler was discovered asleep in our bed hugging the toothbrush holder, complete with toothbrushes and paste. Toddler was lifted back into his bed. And the holder and contents were returned to their position next to the sink.
Of course, the story doesn't end there. Further joys were to be found when I went to clean my own teeth at bedtime. Because it was at that point that I realised that all the toothbrushes were upside down in the holder. And Toddler had put paste, remarkably neatly, on the head of my brush!