A Dozen Pearly Whites

Cora hit a milestone this past week. She finally has a symmetrical pairing of teeth in her mouth. Granted, her hold-out-of-a-lower-left incisor has not reached its full height yet, but it has poked all the way through!

You may be asking yourself why this is such a big deal. Well, it's not. I just need an excuse to write down this huge difference in my girls' tooth experiences (and also celebrate Cora's lack of Jack-O-Lanternness before it returns in 5 years with the losing of baby teeth).


Ally's baby teeth arrived in predictable pairs with very little complaining or fan-fair. Cora's have all shown up sporadically and in random order after months of uncomfortable teething and irritation. I mean, what kind of child grows a one-year molar before acquiring any usable pairing of front teeth? (Her fourth tooth, on the bottom, remained short and very crooked for quite some time. Her second tooth, on the top, made up for this by growing comically long.) I'm impressed she was able to eat so well. I never bothered to record the dates of each tooth, but above is their order of appearance.