Tooth Hurty

Quick story tonight – Mason lost a tooth at school today. He went to the office, and they gave him a little white tooth case to put it in. He was very excited when we picked him up from day care haha. While we were tucking him in tonight, he said he didn’t want to put this one under his pillow. He said he wanted to keep some of them, so he’ll be able to remember his baby teeth. He gets that from his momma LOL. So, he put his tooth in his rock collection case. It has a glass lid so you can see all the rocks. And that was that lol. We all went to bed. Well, about 10pm, mom says, hey just go check to see if the tooth is still in his rock collection case, make sure he didn’t change his mind.

Mason, you changed your mind lol. I found your tooth in the tooth-shaped tooth case in the pillow case under your pillow in the middle of the bed.

I’m glad we checked!

Love you buddy!

Fall 2021

Not much time has passed, only two months, but so much as happened so quickly. Your mother got into a small wreck August 31st. She was driving down Thomasville Road, and it was raining real bad. There were some cars stopped in front of her, she braked, but the car hydroplaned. She rear-ended a black car, and somehow hurt her foot. Apparently, she was putting on brakes very hard with her right foot, it came off the pedal or something and she fractured a bone in the top of her right foot. She had to have surgery to put a small metal plate in her foot. She’ll have another surgery next month to get the plate taken out. The car wasn’t even messed up bad. It had a scratched bumper and a dented hood. So, she’s been scooting around on a knee-scooter for the last month and crutches. It’s not easy chasing you guys around on crutches.

Next up on the big events for the Fall of 2021, Mason started Brazilian Jiu Jitsu! I think we started the day of mom’s car crash or the day after. There is a new martial arts gym that opened just a couple of minutes away from the house. I took Mason by to see what it was all about, and Shane, the head instructor, got him to just attend a class to see if he liked it. Mason loved it, I signed him up, and he’s been doing it ever since. So far, it’s basically Mon – Thursday night every night at 5:30 pm. He’s only been doing it for about 6 weeks, so he’s real green, but he is showing so much promise. He’s really enjoying it. One of the most important things that he’s learning is how to lose. It’s hard growing up with parents that are 100% praise all the time for every little thing that their baby does. Mainly because they’ll start doing something like public Jiu Jitsu classes, and they’ll start getting their butt kicked in everything all the time and it’s a wake up call. It’s hard to be a good loser. It takes patience and understanding of the big picture of what you’re trying to actually accomplish with BJJ. There’s so many little things he’s learning, and its great for him as a person overall. I highly recommend a very personally accountable (individual) sport.

Oh, and deck building is going great. Love you guys!

Love,

Dad