Tuesday, August 25, 2009

And the tooth fairy has visited us!

The brat was sitting in a corner, silent, self absorbed, and not generally decimating the house. Mamma went to him curious, checked his forehead. This checking of the forehead has now become a reflex action, after the past few months of hell. All cool. Mamma sees him mouth open tongue pushing a tooth back and forth. Mamma sank like a stone to the welcoming sofa. The child's teeth are now shaking. Her baby is now officially a big boy. No longer a baby. His milk teeth, his beautiful beautiful pristine white, perfectly aligned milk teeth which sprouted peacefully, without giving mamma endless agony over upset stomachs and infections and such like, were now falling off. Mamma, unable to resist a shaking tooth, like popping the bubbles on bubble wrap, shook the tooth vigorously. "My baby," she cooed,"You've become a big boy. Look, your teeth are shaking, they will fall off, and you will get new teeth."
The brat grinned, pleased as punch at the prospect of being a big boy. He shook his tooth some more. "And look," Mamma billed again, "You're even growing a moustache!" This for a soft down on his upper lip. The brat inflated his chest like a prizefighting rooster. Mamma left him to his happiness and moved on to tackle her chores for the day. Five minutes later the brat went into the bathroom, stared at his shaky tooth and emerged with a gap in his teeth, and his shaky tooth in his hand. "I pulltit out. Lookatit. Now I become a beeg boy?" Hope shining in his eyes. "Yes," grinned mamma, happy that the extraction was so painless, and as she bent down to hug the brat, notices a faint redness above the upper lip, and asks, what happened here? "I shavedit, wid Pappa's shaving. I is a beeg boy now. I do shaving eveyday now. Like Pappa."

15 opinions:

Mama - Mia said...

wow!! thats one helluva brave and crazy kid!! :D

time to hide the shaving apparatus?! :p

cheers!

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Suma said...

yikes! shaving? seriously?! i better look into my bath room stuff now

congrats on a painless tooth removal..my 6 yrold's tooth just fell and he gave us hell...the tooth fairy had to give him 10 dirhams for a smile to return

ES said...

Krish, you are choo cuuute! and very brave too...ekdum Ben 10 jaise :)
so no i know whats in store for me in another year...better mark my calendar to hide the shady stuff in time...

Mamma mia! Me a mamma? said...

The last bit had me laughing out loud so hard that my two brats looked over at me to see if their Mamma had completely gone off her rocker! And to think it started off making me feel all soft, sentu and misty-eyed just imagining this official turning-into-a-big-boy-milestone!

Excellent piece of writing!!

Man! K is just too, TOO cute!

kbpm said...

you started it kiran!!
(congratulations on teeth. big step)

choxbox said...

whoa and congrats!

Sands said...

congrats on the tooth? So how much is each tooth worth? I know it changed from my first one to the second :)

Cantaloupes.Amma (CA) said...

Beeg Boy Indeed Brat !
And he braved those razors ?? ooopssss

Shobana said...

Brave boy to pull out his tooth with bare hands! And yikes, shaving????? Yes, you started it...go hide those things.

Lavanya Seetharaman said...

hahahahhaa !

karmickids said...

Mama Mia: Absolutely. Stays hidden in the bathroom cabinet now.

Suma: What is it with these kids blackmailing us for material things????

ES: Consider yourself forewarned.

Mamma Mia!! Me a mamma???: Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

Kbpm, Chox: Thank you.

Sands: Nothing yet. *Looks shamefaced* an omnitrix watch was promised bravely until mamma realised that many teeth will fall and mamma will go broke at the end of it all...

CA: The brave are also foolish...

Shobhana: Hidden high....

Lavanya: :)

Life Of A Domestic Diva said...

Awww Krish is so brave pulling his tooth out :-) What did the tooth fairy leave him?? :-P

Just Like That said...

He pulled out his own tooth? Super hero Krish indeed! I've been wistfully looking at Sonny boy's toothy grin these days myself, am going to miss them when his teeth start shaking.....

Shaving like Pappa, huh? hide them thingies!!!!