He did it! One lost tooth! After months of telling me he had a loose tooth (thanks to the unit on teeth in Preschool) and then weeks of realizing he finally did have a loose tooth, wiggling, pushing with his tongue and hanging on by one little root. I told him to take a deep breath and I was going to just push it back into place, but I pulled it forward quickly instead and it popped right out! He was so very excited to go through this right of passage! To celebrate we had to read the book “The Night Before the Tooth Fairy” at bedtime and he wrote a note to the Tooth Fairy telling her where his tooth was hiding and went to bed only to wake up and find a silver dollar under his pillow! He was thrilled!! He had to call the grandparents and tell them all about it. Grandma Teeter couldn’t believe the going rate for teeth now a days. “Inflation!” she said. Then for the next week he would walk up to people and pull his lower lip out to show them his missing tooth…he was just a little enthusiastic!
