Esther just lost her first tooth!
Its been loose for a few weeks and she’s been wiggling it all day. When she started getting ready for bed, it came out! She’s so excited and her little brother is very impressed. 
Here is the tiny tooth in her little hand:
Sitting at the nook table, eating our nacho lunch, my conversation with Jared went something like this:
Jared: When I’m grown up, and I’m an Uncle, I’m going to make this. I’m going to put in the cheese, and the meat, and the beans.
Me: When you’re an Uncle, are you going to make it for the kids when you babysit?
(Jared talks a lot about being an Uncle and babysitting kids. He also asks to have a babysitter contantly, but that’s another story.)
Jared: Yeah… When I’m an Uncle, and Esther’s a Mom, I’m going to babysit her kids. But how is she going to have kids?
I explained that she will grow up, then find someone that she likes that will be a good daddy, and they will get married, then they’ll have kids and be the Mom & Dad.
Jared: When Esther grows up, and gets married, Who is going to be her kids??
Me: I don’t know. We’ll meet them when they’re born.
Jared: Then you’ll be a Grandma.
Me: Yep.
Then he got excited with an idea.
Jared: Mom! When Esther has kids, and I’m Uncle Jared, and you’re… Grandma Mom, can we babysit Esther’s kids together?
I told him I would like that very much.
He talked a little more about him being an Uncle and Esther being a Mom.
Me: Did you know when you grow up, you can be an Uncle and a Daddy?
Jared: No. I can only be an Uncle.
Me: No, you can be both. You-
Jared: NO! I can only be an Uncle! (He was starting to get upset already, his eyes watering.)
Me: Why?
Jared: If I’m not a Daddy, and only an Uncle, I can live in Grandma’s house.
And that’s what it all comes down to.
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