Guess Who Lost Her First Tooth?!

This girl has had a wiggly bottom tooth for weeks.  Weeks!  We have asked if we could help her pull it out.  Suggested tying dental floss to it and shutting a door.  But she would literally jump back as she said "No!"  And then she had a big silly grin on her face when I picked her up from after-school.

It's hard to tell where the lost tooth came from since she is a little shark.  The new tooth was already half way grown in behind the old loose tooth!

She was so excited to show off her toothless mouth that she couldn't sit still.  I might have yelled at her to be still, which would explain this ultra-serious face.

It didn't last long.  Chloe was right back to her normal, silly self bouncing off the walls.  Asking questions about whether or not the Tooth Fairy would come?  How the Tooth Fairy would know she lost a tooth?  How would the Tooth Fairy get inside our house?   What if the Tooth Fairy couldn't find her tooth?  How much money would the Tooth Fairy leave?  Would it be five dollars like the Tooth Fairy left Owen for his first tooth?  Or would it be only a dollar, like the rest of Owen's teeth?

For the record, the Tooth Fairy came and went without incident.  She left five dollars under Chloe's pillow for her first tooth and safely stashed the tooth in a hiding spot because she knew that Mommy had just ordered a special tooth bank on Amazon the night before.  Now Chloe can fill up her tooth bank that is just like Owen's.  :)

Another Tooth Bites the Dust

Owen lost his last wiggly tooth yesterday. This is the fourth tooth that has come out. He is proud to show off his toothless grin, so it is easier now to get pictures of him. Wondering how long this will last.

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Well, not really. But might as well be for as excited as he is because it is the FIRST tooth that has come out of his head. Owen first noticed one of his top front teeth was loose two weeks ago. And then the other top front tooth loosened up a week ago....that is the one that came out yesterday afternoon when he was at summer camp. Apparently this tooth was in a hurry and didn't want to get beat out by the first loose tooth.



When I was putting him to bed last night, he wondered about how much money the Tooth Fairy would leave for him and asked me to make a prediction (yes, my 6yr old said prediction). He wondered about the logistical aspects of the Tooth Fairy's entrance...is she like Santa where she comes down the chimney? Or is she like a ghost and comes through the windows. Owen ruled that out quickly after deciding ghosts aren't real.

He asked what would happen if he was still awake when she came 'because he's been staying up late. As late as Mommy & Daddy' ....so he says. I told Owen that if the Tooth Fairy arrives at a home where the child is still awake, she leaves and goes to her next job. His eyes widened. But that boy stayed in bed. It was the first night in months that I did not hear him get out of bed to read books or play with his pokemon cards on the floor.

Todd and I are betting the other tooth comes out soon. By the time we head up to Minnesota in two weeks, the boy will no longer be able to eat corn on the cob!