Six.
The best year of your life.
The perfect combination of independence and dependence.
Still sheltered from and ignorant of the ugly things in life; still confident that you are talented and worthy to be loved.
Not baby, not pre-teen.
Easy to please; eager to please.
Warning: life isn't ever going to be as carefree and simple as it is right now. The teeth that will shoot out of those gaps will be ugly looking, too big for your little face. Then your face and body will spend all your energy trying to catch up in size to those mature incisors. Tough years.
Resolution: to capture on heart, in mind and on film as much of this goofy, toothless grin as will fit. It is the end of an era for us both.
3 comments:
And those big teeth will grow in so fast! By the time I took my little girl to get some "professional" pictures with her toothless grin they had grown in just enough that I had missed the opportunity.
Congratulations! So what does the tooth fairy pay for such an important event?
Oh wow. So true. I'm just a year behind you on this. Thanks for the warning.
beautifully said.
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