April 3, 2006
I wonder if chickens have teeth?
Hello! I survived the weekend! And I have not yet bought the eye cream, although I appreciate all the support! And also your very generous assumptions that I am not compensating for the recent craziness at my house with excessive Retail Therapy. Which I am not! At least, as far as Wade knows.
But yes, I think I have earned the fancy schmancy eye cream, if only because my firstborn has his first LOOSE TOOTH! And he’s not freaking out! Although I am, just a little! Because, you know, he’s my baby and all.
For the past few days, Henry has been telling us that one of his lower front teeth hurt. We have been alternating between blowing the whole thing off (because the boy has some sensory integrative issues and he experiences the world differently and not necessarily accurately and he’s, well, not right in the head) and worrying about it (because he does have FOUR CROWNS and TWO FILLINGS, after all and could very well have ANOTHER cavity). Look at us, the model parents! Super Nanny would be proud.
Tonight at dinner Henry announced AGAIN, “My tooth hurts. This one, right here. I think it’s loose.” And instead of saying, Whatever, Crazy Boy, I said, “Here, let me feel it.” And dammit if the boy’s tooth isn’t LOOSE! I think (although it’s been a long time since I had a loose tooth) that it will not fall out, oh, tomorrow, but soon, certainly! Because HE HAS A LOOSE TOOTH! Goodness.
When I told Wade (because of course I called his cell phone IMMEDIATELY to tell him) he said, “Is Henry okay with this?”
“Yes,” I said, “Because I was smart enough to tell him about the Tooth Fairy RIGHT AWAY. And now he’s planning what he will get with the money she will bring him. Apparently, he thinks she’s going to bring him $100.00.”
“Not in my house,” Wade said.
In completely unrelated news, my brother and sister-in-law are expecting Baby #2 in August. I am very happy about this, as I adore my brother and his wife, and I admire their parenting style very much. Tonight, the boys and I were talking about how Tess is going to have a new baby at her house this summer, and Henry asked if the baby was a boy or a girl.
“We don’t know!” I said (I personally LOVE the delivery room surprise so I am happy that they are waiting to meet the baby).
“What are they going to name the baby?” he asked.
“I don’t know. Do you have any good ideas?” And yes, they did!
Henry suggested Jenny for a girl and Ben for a boy. Very nice.
Charlie, on the other hand, suggested “Biddle and Ditz” (I don’t know which is the boy name and which is the girl name, nor do I know if it matters) and “Billion Chicken” (which seems to work for either a boy or a girl and takes care of both the first and middle name dilemma). He also wanted to know exactly how many babies Aunt J had in her tummy and what you would call it if she had FOUR babies in her tummy. And I said, “I think she would call that a NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.”
“No, REALLY,” he said. “What do you call FOUR babies?”
So I told him that four babies who grow in one mommy’s tummy all at once are called quadruplets, and he said, “You’re making that up.”
No! For once, I am not!
Anyway, I doubt that my brother and his wife will be terribly excited about any of Charlie’s baby name options, although I have e-mailed them to John just in case, so if you decide that you just LOVE any of them, let me know and they’re all yours. Really! Because I could pretty much guarantee that your little angel would be the ONLY Billion Chicken in his or her kindergarden class.
Think about it!
Posted by Susan @ 7:45 pm • Uncategorized
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April 3rd, 2006 at 9:00 pm, Misfit Hausfrau Says:
I LOVE Billion Chicken.
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:18 pm, adria Says:
Charlie is brilliant! Sounds like something Daria would say because she named her purple cat ‘Yellow’ and her new bunny ‘Butterfly’.
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:22 pm, Kristen Says:
That Charlie, I swear. He and Quinn would make the best comedy team. EVER. Tonight I was putting him to bed and he said, “I need my shongsh” (songs) in the voice of the sloth on Ice Age…frighteningly, I knew exactly who he was imitating, and I cracked up laughing. I’m sure John was listening on the monitor and wondering what the hell was so funny about bedtime.
The Charlie and Quinn comedy hour, there might be some money in that, Susan…
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:11 pm, sozzled Says:
Billion Chicken sounds remarkably like Bill Clinton, if you say it outloud in a slightly inebriated state. Not that I would know that first hand, of course…
But as to the eye cream Retail Therapy…..I say shoes. always always always buy shoes for retail therapy. who can deny that a person needs shoes?? You won’t ever second guess the need for shoes.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:56 am, Jenorama Says:
Seriously, I love Henry’s choice for the girl name.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:59 am, Candace Says:
Billion Chicken. That’s freaking awesome.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:11 am, MamaChristy Says:
I love that Charlie is willing to call you on something if he thinks that you are telling him a fib! I have a feeling you make stuff up on a regular basis…
April 4th, 2006 at 12:51 pm, Jack's Raging Mommy Says:
Maybe they’ll have boy/girl twins, and then they can call them Bennifer!
I’m so kidding.
April 4th, 2006 at 1:23 pm, Susie Says:
I love Biddle and Ditz!
April 4th, 2006 at 7:08 pm, Nothing But Bonfires Says:
Oh, PLEASE can I have Ditz? It’ll be even better if she’s a girl. I’ll drive her to the mall and make her say ‘like, oh my god, like, TOTALLY!” every five minutes.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:51 pm, Undercover Angel Says:
Billion Chicken is a great one!
When I was pregnant with my second child I asked my first child what he thought we should name the baby - he said Apple. He was quite diappointed when we didn’t name the baby that. Maybe Gweneth Paltrow and my oldest son are kindred spirits - after all, she named her baby Apple.
April 5th, 2006 at 1:54 pm, Homestead Says:
When I read the title I thought this post was going to be about Stephen J Gould!
Sweet Boy is calling our baby “Burt” so Billion Chicken doesn’t sound that bad….
Also http://www.toothfairycoin.com/ Check this out for Tooth Fairy coins!!!
April 5th, 2006 at 8:24 pm, Kristen Says:
I just remembered, when I was a kid, my uncle Bryan won this really cheap doll for me at a carnival. It was a yellow chicken in blue overalls. I named him Chicken Bryan.
April 6th, 2006 at 8:54 am, retrostella Says:
I can so relate about the teeth thing. my 4 year old has had extensive dental work done and goes in today for her checkup. i am writhing in fear of more filligns & then theres the guilt.wishing you luck!
April 6th, 2006 at 9:32 pm, Mir Says:
Wasn’t that an old commercial…?
Biddle and Ditz, Biddle and Ditz, I’m gonna get me some Biddle and Ditz….
April 7th, 2006 at 1:15 pm, Nancy Says:
I was thinking just what Mir was about Biddle and Ditz. But I like Billion Chicken a LOT — but for a boy, so he could be called Bill for short. But hey, does Charlie have an idea for a 4th baby name if it is quadruplets? (He’s got three of the babes covered…)
I like the delivery room surprises too. So fun that way.