I can’t wait until the classroom presentation portion of the assignment

The Bandit keeps losing teeth. He’s ten so it’s not unheard of, but he looks really goofy and charming at the moment.

He lost one last week. Then on Saturday we were eating frozen yogurt when he lost another one. Sassy and I didn’t believe him. Who loses a tooth eating yogurt? But holy cow, there it was, in his palm.

Today when I got home from work, he handed me yet another tooth.

What the heck?” I asked. “I didn’t even know you had any loose ones.”

He shrugged. I mean really, what’s there to say?

Later we went to the grocery store. We were standing in the dairy section when he caught me looking at him. Back when he was younger and lost a bunch of teeth he was actually excited about it because it made what he called “a cheese hole”. This was a  gap in his teeth in which he could insert pieces of shredded cheese.

A cheese hole. Obviously.

So there I was staring at him in the dairy section.

“What?” he asked.

“Jeez with the holes you have now, we could shove cheese wedges through there.”

He giggled at the prospect. We proceeded through the store imaging what else we could get through that gap.

“Pretzel sticks,” I suggested

“Baby corn,” he countered.

As we went down the aisles. “Small carrots. Thin cookies.”

“Very skinny breadsticks.”

You know, the science fair is coming up…  Finally, an experiment that might be fun.