Another Tooth Gone-Updates about Elise

She's adventurous, with the strongest desire to do and be important. She fights fear and frustration EVERY.SINGLE.DAY. She always has. When I'm with her I feel her deep deep desire to do big, hard, brave things. I feel her love for people. I also feel the fight that is inside her to do these things. She fights against her fear and anxiety. This often comes out as frustration and anger. I understand her. I see her disappointment at rejection and how hard she struggles to internalize and cope. She desperately wants to be loved and to be part and also to fulfill her own greatest desires and ideas and not be stifled by her places as youngest child. Also, she had a snaggle-tooth. We tried to find any way to get her to pull it. She just couldn't trust us. So we waited. 

And it happened. She lost it brushing her teeth. It bled, she was SO excited. And that, is the moral of this story. She will have to fight the battles I so want to smooth over for her. She will have to find her brave, push her ideas, learn to deal with other people's ideas, trust that she's loved, be a good friend and all the things that pain me to watch her struggle with and she will and I will be here feeling every single pain and crying tears that she can not. I will dry the tears she does cry if she lets me.