This is an image of Helen, my eldest daughter, flashing a marvellous smile while messing around at a play park. I took it a few weeks ago when I first got my new camera and wasn’t too sure what to make of it until I flipped it to black and white.
When I told Helen I was going to take a picture, she insisted on striking a pose and maneuvered the digger’s bucket into this position. She was having great fun and when the time came to move on, she didn’t want to leave the park. The promise of hot chocolate, however, did eventually entice her away!
In the picture Helen still has all the teeth in the top row of her mouth. Shortly afterwards she lost two of them and so the smile is quite significant. It was one of the last pictures taken before her adult incisors started coming through.
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20 thoughts on “A very significant smile”
That’s lovely to have captured that smile for the last time. It’s amazing how different they look when their two top teeth are gone! My younger son knocked his out, so was without them for over two years. I love to see the way their smiles keep changing when they lose those first few teeth.
Two years, wow that’s along time. I feel for Helen because she can’t bite into tough foods like she used to.
Beautiful shot and I agree this is a very significant moment. My son has lost 1 front tooth and the other is almost out. I love his cute gappy smile now but wonder what he will look like with his new adult teeth too. Our little ones are growing up! #photalife
They grow up with terrifying speed! Helen’s lost the four teeth now, all in the space of about a month. Never thought it would happen at this speed.
My little boy has lost his top two but they’ve grown back so quickly I was shocked! She looks just lovely xx
Oh yes, the adult teeth have started growing already. I have to keep lecturing her about going down slides head first because of the risk she knocks out an adult tooth.
Beautiful photo, I like it looks so good in black & white. She’s looking so grown up
Thank you for linking up
I tell you Darren, e have one or two pics of Helen in which she would be in her twenties. Frightening how they grow up so quick!
My eldest is desperate to have a wobbly tooth, I however am less keen. Such a beautiful photo
Ha ha! Wait until the teeth are so loose they can turn 180 degrees in the mouth. It looks….interesting to say the least!
Photos really do show just how quickly things can change. It is a great portrait and really looks lovely in black and white #MySundayPhoto
Thanks Victoria, I thought it worked much better in B&W.
Aww what a lovely photo, and it looks like that digger is lots of fun, And it’s good to hear that the hot chocolate bribe is going to help us for a few years to come!
The digger was great fun. I might have had a go myself!
Aww! That is so sweet! Such a lovely moment to capture x
It was a lucky moment to capture, yes. Both teeth came out soon afterwards.
Oh wow! What an amazing moment to capture. What’s the going rate for teeth round your way?
It’s a pound a go….although Helen came homw fom School yesterday and informed me one of her friends gets two pounds. That was awkward to explain.
Aw, a lovely photo made even more special 🙂
Ah yes, a very special picture indeed!