Toothsome.

[dracolicious]

Well, after much pain and agony, Precious has finally lost her very first tooth---on a chewy bit of Halloween candy, no less. The Tooth Fairy took pity on her suffering self and rewarded her handsomely, but since that fateful day, My Poor Angel refuses to eat anything that involves any sort of actual chewing. Serving her porridge, applesauce,

Comments

[boywholives]

C'mon, Emmy, eating cake isn't going to make you teeth fall out. Just try a few bites, okay?

[dracolicious]

Just take small bites, and smash it to death with your tongue. You haven't really got to use any teeth at all if you play it right---

[boywholives]

Daddy is an expert in eating cake. Trust him.

[dracolicious]

Too right I am.

Look, Papa makes the softest, moistest cake you'll ever eat. It would never try to force out any teeth before their time.

[boywholives]

I can't believe I'm cajoling my child to eat cake. There's something very wrong with this picture.

[dracolicious]

Yes, well, it won't last forever. Eventually she'll get through an entire mouthful of teeth, if she hasn't died of malnutrition by then.

[boywholives]

I know it's empty calories, but it's been three days now of her shunning food and I don't like it.

[dracolicious]

She'll appreciate the practice in self-denial once she becomes a teenager who is perpetually dieting.

[boywholives]

Yes, we're all having cake.

[dracolicious]

Maybe.

[boywholives]

Going to abstain, are you?

[dracolicious]

. . . If Muffin won't eat the cake, neither will I.

[boywholives]

So, any plans on what to give her for the next...loss?

[dracolicious]

A pony? I don't bloody know. This is going to be a damned expensive few years, you must know that.

[boywholives]

Or we could just slip a galleon under her pillow. She won't know any different - it's not as though Alfie's mom is going to one-up us in the gifting department. I never got anything, and it didn't bother me. I didn't even know it was supposed to happen. I thought that Dudley had come into my cupboard and hit me hard enough to knock a tooth out, and I somehow couldn't remember it.

[dracolicious]

Your Muggles were cheap and horrible, so I don't think your comparison is fair. Surely you noticed that your tooth was a bit loose before it suddenly disappeared in the night?