First pic – looks like a normal kid going to school.  Second pic – oh yes.  That’s the picture of a little girl who has just lost her very first tooth!  Emma has had a loose tooth for quite some time  now.  In school they were learning about tally marks and they took a tally of all the kids that lost 1, 2, 3 and 4 teeth.  Emma was the only little kid that hadn’t lost any teeth yet!  So these last few weeks she’s been sooo excited that she was finally going to lose a tooth.  Only it just kind of hung on, and hung on… and hung on.  Eventually while I was grocery shopping with her she asked me to buy corn on the cob – she’d seen an episode of iCarly where one of the characters lost a tooth while eating corn on the cob.  Luckily she didn’t have to wait too much longer (and no, the corn on the cob did not work, despite Emma’s best effort, LoL).  A couple nights later, voila!  Her tooth came out!  Talk about a happy little girl!

I agree – it doesn’t really sound like much.  A baby sitting up in an everyday cart in Target.  Nothing big, right?  Well I’d beg to differ.  Hugely differ, actually. 

In the days past (as in the last 3 months) if I needed to go to the store I had to first make sure that I had a few blankets on hand to make a little bassinet out of the cart for Elizabeth.  Getting out of the car meant setting up the “big kids” (yep, I lump my 2 year old in the big kid category) and Elizabeth in shifts and then going through the store expecting to receive some rather funny looks at times.  As it turns out most people do not use the carts as beds for their babies… But I ask you, how else do you plan on bringing 3 young kids plusinfant through the store single-handedly and expect to actually use the basket for anything other than holding your children??  Answer:   you get creative.  For me using the toddler seat as a bed was a given. 

Well, as of yesterday I will receive no more funny looks.  No longer will I have to be prepared to enter the store with scores of extra blankets.  I don’t have to get the kids out of their seats and setup in shifts.  Nope.  From now on we can just run to the store and jump out of the car without hassle.  Seems like such a simple thing really, but for me it’s definitely a milestone worth noting.