The books report that buds for your permanent teeth are now forming behind the buds for your milk teeth that are already there. Let's get this straight. When you'll be born you won't have any teeth at all - it will take a number of months before your first teeth appear, and over a year until you'll have a full mouthful. Then, when you'll be about seven, those teeth will start being pushed out by your permanent teeth. And the books are telling us that the buds for those permanent teeth are now forming in your mouth. Maybe they can tell us as well whether or not you'll need braces? I hope that you're not getting too much of a feeling of having your life pre-determined for you. If you'll ever complain that your parents are doing that sort of thing for you we'll always be able to say that what we're doing is nothing compared to what your genes did. And excuse my saying this, but you're still too young to think that your life is all cut out for you already.

Your mother pulled some sort of muscle during this week. At least that's what we think it was. It was difficult for her to move, and of course we were concerned not only for her well being but for yours as well. It seems that there are so many things that we're supposed to be concerned about. So much seems to be able to go wrong. A muscle gets pulled and we're already anxious about just what it might mean. Neither of us wants to be responsible for not taking things seriously enough.

A couple of days later everything was back to normal - except that your mother now had a third pillow that she needed in order to find a comfortable position to sleep in, and (don't get the impression I'm complaining) I have had to make do with an increasingly smaller portion of the bed.