First Lost Tooth

Last night, only two days after her sixth birthday, Amalia lost her first tooth. She was quite proud of this, as it is even more proof that she is a big girl now.

Today she is working on thank you cards for birthday presents, and my bending of the rules of typography bugged her. Of course, my bending of the rules was to have helped her avoid violating another rule and was to have helped legibility. You see, she had to write a word that would not fit on the line. Her normal M.O. is to simply wrap the word, no matter what the syllable break, and omitting a hyphen. I convinced her that it would be OK to go into the gutter with her long word.

Resistance.

I even pulled out a couple of examples to show her words that crossed the gutter.

Oooh. That looks cool.

Now, we have long words so placed as to require crossing the gutter.

I have to remember to keep her out of my collection of avant-garde typesetting magazines.