Monday, July 03, 2006

FRITH TOOTH

THE FAMILY GATHERED AT THE MANDARIN TO WITNESS MAMA'S WORLD-RENOWNED CRABLEG-EATING SKILLS (I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHAT IS WRONG WITH MAMA'S FACE IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH - PERHAPS SOMEONE HAS JUST POKED HER WITH A STICK) - FROM LEFT TO RIGHT WE HAVE : JR, RENEE, JEREMY, GRANDMA PAT, OMI ANNA, POP-POP KEN, A PECULIAR-LOOKING MAMA AND, OF COURSE, THE FRITH.

PAPA IS OPENING A SURPRISE GIFT FOR THE FRITH FROM POP-POP - A PERFECT AND ALSO VERY USEFUL SNOOPY BIB AND BURP-CLOTH! MEANWHILE, FRITH ENJOYS A MOUTHFUL OF PLACEMAT.

THE BIG SURPRISE OF THE NIGHT CAME WHEN POP-POP TOOK FRITH OUTSIDE FOR A WALK. WHEN THEY CAME BACK HE ANNOUNCED IN HIS TYPICALLY UNDERSTATED MANNER THAT THE FRITH HAD SPROUTED HER FIRST TOOTH - WE THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING! BUT NO, HERE IS THE FRITH, SOOTHING SAID TOOTH ON MAMA'S NECKLACE.

LATER, MAMA TOOK FRITH ASIDE SO SHE COULD SEE FOR HERSELF. A TOOTH INDEED THERE WAS.

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