My eldest daughter’s first milk tooth has broken free from its gummy domicile.. in this part of Japan there is seemingly an old tradition where you throw teeth from your lower jaw on to the roof of your house and those from the upper jaw, under the house.. for luck, I guess.. apparently it has been decided that this will be happening..

.. all the while I am silently sitting here, wondering how I can somehow switch it with something so I can keep my firstborn’s first tooth as a keepsake..