Anticipating the flu

Folks, the Princess' teacher informed me this afternoon that 6 kids went down today. SIX kids in her class went home sick as the school day progressed. Not a good sign at all.

I am now holding my breath and crossing my fingers and toes that the Princess will be healthy tomorrow morning. Why? She has a dental appointment that is scheduled for 8am tomorrow.

Did I mention that she lost her top right tooth on Sunday afternoon? Her brother accidentally bumped her mouth when they were wrestling and the tooth (finally!) popped out. When she was 3 years old, I took her for her first dental appointment. They took x-rays and found that she had an EXTRA top tooth. That extra tooth sat just above her 2 baby teeth. That extra tooth sat below her 2 adult teeth. That extra tooth is BLOCKING the progress of her two adult teeth! So at her last dental appointment, I was told that they would need to remove that extra tooth once one of her two top teeth came out. And folks that time has come! We're going in tomorrow so that the dentist can take a look to see what is going on. Then we'll schedule the "removal" of the tooth.

Below is a photo of her current smile. The two bottom middle teeth are her adult ones. You can see the two tooth next to those middle ones moving into the gaps at the bottom. She has that HUGE gap. And you can definitely see some white peeking through her gum. I'm thinking that's the extra tooth that has moved down as the root of the loose tooth deteriorated to nothing. Hopefully that IS the case. If this is the case, then the dentist can pretty easily remove it since it's already peeking through the gum.

Anyone else have a child with an "extra" tooth?

But the Bear is coughing intermittently right now. He has no fever and not complaining about feeling yucky. So hopefully he just has a cough. So we are going be washing our hands even more so than normal. I will be disinfecting all the knobs and handles throughout the house today. Anything to keep the nasty flu but out of our house. I hope....