4 + 1 = 5

There are now four teeth on top and still only one on the bottom. I don't see any signs of another tooth on the bottom yet.
I've never watched teeth come in before. It is much slower than I thought. When children I know have gotten their teeth, it always seemed that one day they were absent and the next day (I saw them) a tooth was there in all its glory. Watching the transitions from seeing the teeth ready to cut through, to cutting through, and now slowly growing in visibility is interesting. I never realized the process was so slow. I could have sworn the other kids I know grew teeth overnight! I suppose their teeth grew in slowly too and I just didn't notice the teeth until they were fully grown. It is difficult to see the teeth unless she is opening her mouth right in front of your face. She still does not have any full teeth showing. You can see her first two teeth quite well now, but they are still very short.
Fortunately, she does not grind her teeth as much now as she did when those first two teeth were alone. Which isn't to say she never does it. *shuddering to think of it*
Last night she went to bed at a more reasonable hour of 11pm rather than 1am. I think she has cut all the teeth she is going to for a while. I don't see any more ready to cut through, although I'm wondering where that second bottom tooth is.
That is the tooth fairy's update. Teeth photos will follow when they are more visible.

In other news, I'm putting together paper proposals for submissions to the American Academy of Religion annual meeting to be held in Montreal this November. Robin and I will be going together while mom and Rita babysit (at their insistence). Our first getaway. I aim to present at one of the Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation sessions. More specifically I can answer their call for "interreligious perspectives on children and ritual", but I think it would be interesting to propose something from my research for their call for "children and families in scriptural and sacred textual traditions". Given that the latter is co-sponsored by the Scriptural Reasoning Group (for Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures), and given my experience attending the overly theological sessions put on the by the Childhood Studies and Religion Consultation, I am confident the call is for mainstream religion papers and thus it would be interesting to submit something about an alternative religion. The downside would be that if my paper was accepted the discussion around the paper would inevitable be highly theological in nature and I am not interested in that discussion.
The Ritual Studies Group is also gathering papers on ritual and children, so I may submit there as well. Finally, the NRMs group (currently headed by one of my supervisors) is seeking papers on the "material, visual, and festival cultures of new religious movements" and I could do something in that area. So many possibilities that I could draw from my research. The Pagan Studies group is looking for papers on idolatry or literature, neither of which are part of my current research.
The brain-cogs are whirring.