"Hey, Mom," says Ti'anna, emerging triumphant from the bathroom, reaching up to flick off the light. "My teeth were playing football while I was on the toilet."
"Your what?" I said, laughing. I laughed for a whole minute, reiterating her declaration to Dad as he walked into the room. Ti'anna exited, nonplussed.
A few minutes later, as I continued stirring the soup, Ti'anna came up to me and pulled on my pants' leg. "Hey, Mom," she said.
"Yeah, honey?"
"Wanna see my teeth play football?" I nodded, and she grinned up at me, opening her mouth wide to reveal a cough drop. She tossed it from one cheek to the other with her tongue, her teeth tiny goalposts in the pink of her mouth. "See?"
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funny girl!
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