a little problem with the paperwork...

Lily is getting so big and grown up that she told my mom that there could have been a mistake. She might not actually be seven...she has lost so many teeth that she might really be eight. I can assure you there has been no mistake. She is only seven and I wish she could stay seven for two more years or so.

Last week I took Lily to see an orthodontist. She will be getting her first set of braces in about six months. Before we went to the appointment the doctor's office sent us some paperwork to fill out. Lily had her very own page that asked her things like "What is your favorite food?" or "What do you like about school?" She took this task extremely seriously and spent plenty of time getting all of her answers just right.

When we arrived at the office we went to the front reception area to check in. The first person to greet us Lily wasn't shy to share with her that there had been a bit of her paperwork that she'd forgotten to write down. They were gracious, so Lily continued: On my paperwork, under 'favorite TV shows, I like Author, Word Girl, Wild Kratz, and I forgot Phenious and Ferb. They said that that should be fine and that we could sit down and wait.

As Lily's appointment continued, she would not stop telling people that there had been a 'little problem with my paperwork'. It always took her about five minutes to get the whole statement out. "There is a little problem with my paperwork, under favorite TV shows, I like Author, Word Girl, Wild Kratz and I forgot Phenious and Ferb." By the end, I was dying from laughter. At one point she was talking to someone while there was a mouth piece IN HER MOUTH and her head was clamped down by a machine. "There was a little problem with my paperwork..."

She also managed to mention to every adult who would listen that she had lost seven teeth. Everyone in her class has only lost five or six, but she had lost seven.