Today's Adventure in Parenting

So, today Don calls me from the living room; a mommy emergency. I go in there. Isabella has gum stuck up her nose.

Me: "You stuck gum up your nose?"

Izzy: "No, it went up through the hole in my mouth."

Don: "You don't have a hole in your mouth anymore."

Well, yes, she does. A small one, right on her gumline, which they'll repair with a bone graft from her hip when she's a few years older. And, yes, gum was up in there, tucked waaaaay back in a hole behind her one crooked tooth that grows ...