Black Eye & Missing Front Teeth!!!

Mikenna has had quite the last couple days. She lost her second front tooth this week at school..I guess she has gotten over her fear of losing her teeth. She said she was working on getting her tooth out during recess; and out it came! She came home with it in a tooth holder necklace that the school nurse gave her...with a huge toothless grin on her face; she came running to the van after school was out. The way she pronounces certain words sounds really different to her; and she keeps asking how to pronounce certain words now without sounding like she has no front teeth...I told her to just do her best; soon her new teeth will be showing up; and it won't be so hard to pronounce certain words right. The same day that she lost her tooth at school; she got hit in the face/eye with the soccer ball at practice at close range and really hard. I was really proud of her for jumping right back into practice after a break to compose herself. I told her soccer can be a rough sport; and you have to expect you are going to get hurt sometimes; but you have to be tough and get back out there and keep working hard for you and your team. True to Mikenna's personality; she smiled at me and ran back out there and worked even harder...she makes me so proud! She has no quit in her; works so hard at everything she does; and she usually does it with a big smile on her face and helping others along the way.