The 'Missing' Tooth

Remember that tooth that Jake lost on the playground at school?  The one we had to go back and look for and of course there was no sign of it.  Well, as strange as it might seem, I think it showed up in our house yesterday.  Someone told me when Jake lost it that it would show up again one day.  I didn't think that was very likely since he lost it on the playground, his teacher checked his clothes, I checked his clothes, plus he stayed at school the rest of the day and took the bus home.  How would that tooth find its way into our house? 

Yesterday I was cleaning up a bit downstairs and picked up a few small bits of stuff off of our activity table.  Strange as it is, one of those bits was a small bottom tooth.  Since Jake lost that tooth, we've moved everything out of our basement, packed it into trailers, finished the basement and moved everything back in.  Now, how in the world would it end up there?  Why did it end up there and not in the carpet where I would have just vaccumed it up?  Where was it all this time?  Pretty sure I'll never know any of those answers.

Sometimes when things like this happen you try to figure out the meaning or if it is a 'sign'.  As hard as I try I can't find a meaning of any worth in finding a 7 month old lost tooth.  I'll make sure to let you all know if and when I figure it out.

Ben's Surgery

Ben has had a bit of a tough winter, constantly battling a cough.  He's also had some other kind of strange symptoms, one of them being that he would gag super easily.  It had gotten to the point where he could barely wear a shirt during the day because it made him gag.  I had him to the doc a number of times and no one seemed to think it was as strange as I did.  I finally decided he needed to go to see and ENT doc to check his tonsils and adenoid (he had been having other adenoid symptoms since last summer).  Our doc thought I was crazy and wanted him to see an allergery/asthma doc.  I went ahead anywhere and a week later Ben had his tonsils and adenoid removed.  His adenoid was large and his tonsils were 'hooked' down in his throat.  The doc said that they were quite a bit larger than they looked.

Ben did awesome with surgery - our experience with Jake was probably almost as bad as it could get - made this one a breeze.  Getting better at home was a bit more of a challenge.  The whole house has a chest cold and Ben was not spared.  Pretty tough having to cough when you've just had your tonsils out.  I'm not sure if it is all a 'cold' some of it could be leftover cough from whatever was causing it in the first place.  I think we'll give it a little while and if it doesn't clear up with nebs we'll have to maybe see that allergy doc.  After about 8 days we got our Benners back - we sure did miss him!!!  :)  The gagging is gone!!!  I guess those tonsils were the problem.