Exploding

Levi said at the end of last week that his face hurt.  I dismissed it as 'boy pain' and didn't really think about it.  Then an hour or so later he said;

I feel like my face is exploding from the inside"

I didn't stress much about it, as he has a flair for the dramatic but did give him some Motrin to help him out.  Then I really looked at him and realized that his face was changing shape.  Not as dramatically as he was saying but still, I noticed that the gap between his teeth is widening.  Where two teeth fell out, leaving a gap of just over 1 cm there was now a gap of 2.2 cms.  As his big teeth are coming down they are forcing his upper jaw to widen at an impressive speed.  His face really is exploding from the inside and that was a very apt description.  I think it must be like the pain when braces are put on for the first time and your teeth and jaw have to change rapidly.  Today I measured again and he is nearly at 2.4 cm (nearly an inch) so I can almost see his jaw growing.  He has a cute speech pattern at the moment, lisping his 's' sounds and dragging his 'th' sounds as his tongue refuses to do what it is supposed to without the teeth to guide it.  Luckily I think his jaw growth is slowing down and you can see both adult teeth coming down.  I will try to be more sympathetic as they do!

I am organizing the annual Easter Egg Hunt at our house again this year and the creek may not co operate.  It is still running over and as it rains on and off during the day, the creek level is fairly steady and so the name has been altered somewhat;

The Annual

‘Brave the Creek Crossing’

Easter Egg Hunt

Anyway it is a fun task to organize and it will be great if the weather will hold out long enough for the kids to have a little play!  I am getting about a dozen eggs per child.  We put them all out and then all the kids run out and search at once.  It is a bit like organized mayhem but really fun!  The kids search eggs by color and the color based on age.  The youngest kids search for any color.  Then over four year olds search for all but red (which are just laying on the grass for the babies).  It means that the parents can stay in some semblance of control, which will be hard this year as it has become bigger than Ben Hur!