My little girl is now a Preschool Graduate. I don’t know when it happened, all this growing up and getting smarter stuff. One day she was toddling around in diapers. The next, she was wearing a cap and gown.
One moment, she was telling me I was her best friend, next to Ma’Maw. Now, she has “real” best friends. Just yesterday, she was taking her first steps across the living room, not walking over to accept her diploma.
And also, when did she start smiling with her mouth closed? She has a beautiful, dazzling smile. 
But lately, she won’t show it when she knows a camera is on her. She says it’s because of her “missing tooth”, which is actually a space caused by an aberrant frenum. It never used to bother her. These days, though, I get irritated when adults, who should really know better than to think a child would have a tooth right in the middle, ask me what happened to her tooth right in front of her. It’s made her self conscious. Soon enough, though, she’ll start losing those baby teeth and it will be time to clip that frenum. It will probably be tomorrow.
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I can’t wait until she is old enought to do my taxes for me…. YAY!