Ava lost her first tooth! We've been waiting for the moment for weeks and it came, as most things do, completely unexpectedly.
We were away for the weekend: Marc and I with adult friends and the kids with my parents. Phin has a nasty cold and yesterday was quite rainy. We had a long ride home from Chicago, but I won't bore you with those details. We got home a little before 6 and were unloading the car. Ava decided that was the moment to pull her tooth. She tried on her own first and then followed me around asking for help. I gave it a tug- she broken down in tears, so I suggested we take a break, finish unloading the car, and then focus on her tooth.
When it's your first loose tooth and it is dangling in your mouth, taking a break is apparently not an option. I soon heard SCREAMING from our bedroom; there she had found Marc dropping off suitcases and persuaded him to give it a tug. The screaming subsided to mild crying and soon I had a little girl in back in my kitchen with a hole in her mouth and a tooth in her hand. Wow! Can someone please pause time just a bit?!
She chose to NOT put her tooth under her pillow for the tooth fairy last night. She is keeping it for today so she could show it off at school. I just hope it manages to make it back home.
I asked around, by the way, do you know the tooth fairy leaves a DOLLAR now? I guess she keeps up with inflation. Back in my day- she just left a quarter!
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My friends told me that for their first lost tooth their parents left them a TWENTY!!!! Could not believe that. Also, we may have to change dentists because he told Charlotte that when teeth get pulled the tooth fairy leaves FIVE a piece! And at this point, she will need to have 2 teeth pulled-yowza!
ReplyDeleteSuch a cutie! The tooth fairy will have to allocate more money to her budget soon!:0) Our kids got $2 for each front tooth and $1 for all the others. I hope the tooth fairy in your area is a little more on top of things!!! Ours didn't come a time or two and had to pay interest.:0/
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