Abby's 2nd Lost Tooth

Last night we got home from the skate party and everyone was hustling to get ready for bed. The typical routine... snacks, teeth brushing, jammies, etc...

I was up with the girls when they were ready to settle down in their room and read books. Abby was telling me about her really loose tooth. She wanted me to wiggle it to see just how loose it was. Not wanting to put my fingers in her mouth (due to cold germs), I asked her to wiggle it and I’d look closely.

She started to move it forward and it just kept on moving forward. It was totally horizontal but yet I could tell that it was still slightly connected. She looked perplexed... like WOW! What do I do now? What is going on?

I quickly suggested the she just pull it out, and she did. I think she was a little surprised!

Abby's First Lost Tooth

It was Monday morning, the 4th day of 1st grade. I know it is Friday already, I'm such a slacker!

Let's preface this with... we are not morning people.

Based on our dinner experience the night before we knew it was going to truly fall out soon. Thank goodness! We were actually hoping it would fall out during dinner. We knew she'd be totally okay with it falling out and if it happened at school she would be just fine. We just weren't entirely certain the tooth would make it home!

So everyone was getting through their morning routine. The kids were sitting at the table eating breakfast. Carie was at the counter making cold lunches. She had just cut Abby's sandwich into strips so she could more easily attempt to eat her lunch. And then suddenly Abby discovered that her tooth had fallen out with her next bite of breakfast. Suddenly the tooth was no longer in her mouth but instead in her hand.

There was much excitement and oohing and ahhing over the tooth that had fallen out and the gap that now resides in her mouth.

Abby's Tooth Fairy box is finally complete. The perfectionist came out in me and this one gave me a hard time at many steps along the way. But it is complete and adorned with all the materials Abby chose. She is thrilled and therefore I am happy. See a theme between the two boxes? As they chose their materials it was quickly clear that glitter was important!

Before and After...

The Tiny Tooth... (in the lid of her tooth fairy box)

Admiring The Tooth...

The Tooth Fairy Box...

More Exciting Tooth News

Abby has lost her 1st tooth!

It finally fell out on Monday morning (day 4 of 1st grade) during breakfast. Thank goodness because we were fairly sure she wasn't going to make it all day without it falling out.

More on the exciting story... soon.

Ellie's First Lost Tooth

It happened!

Abby's prediction was right on, a tooth would be lost on the 2nd day of 1st grade. It just didn't happen to her. She's really very much okay with that. She has two very loose teeth and if she'd just let me pull either of them she could have lost a tooth yesterday as well. She'd rather hold onto them a bit longer!

So Ellie has been a wiggling machine with this tooth. A friend of theirs was over and had dinner with us last night. She commented that Ellie was always (in just 2 days - LOL) wiggling her tooth in class. And that is why it fell out!

Carie and I were getting dinner ready. Lexy had run home to see if would be okay if she had dinner with us. The girls were anxiously waiting out front to see if she would be coming back or not. Ellie was snacking on a piece of cantaloupe and then at 6:05 we heard her burst through the front door screaming with excitement that her tooth had fallen out. It had blood on it so she had to go in the bathroom to wash it off. It was fascinating to see just how okay she was with the blood on the tooth.

The rest of the night was spent talking about teeth, admiring her lost tooth, and talking about their day at school. This is just such a different experience than last year. They are growing up so much!

Before and after...











The tiny tooth...












The Tooth Fairy Box...














The story with the Tooth Fairy box is that a friend of ours had this brilliant idea to make these special boxes. As we were discussing what we would do in our own house, it seemed like a fun idea to make a special box for the Tooth Fairy. I asked our friend if she would mind if we stole her brilliant idea, to which she replied of course not! So off to the store we went to have the girls pick out their materials to decorate their own special boxes.

This is what Ellie chose! The inside is currently covered in hot pink glitter (visible in the photo with the tooth). We have thoughts that we'll add something more to the inside (we have the materials), but Ellie likes it how it is at the moment. So we'll see. Abby's Tooth Fairy box will be ready when she is ready. We had planned to make Spencer's now as well, since we were in the mode. But it was really cool to have Abby & Ellie pick out their own designs, things that really interested them. So now I'm wondering if we wait for his day to come to do the same.

Ellie isn't ready for the Tooth Fairy to come; she would like to admire her tooth for a bit longer. So we've got a bit more time to firm up our execution and ritual of the Tooth Fairy!

Abby's Wiggly Tooth

Here is Abby and her loose teeth. They will fall out "any day now"... or sometime in the coming months. One thing is for sure, they will fall out someday.

They should have fallen out by now, but it seems that Abby is a bit protective of them. I'm convinced that the only reason Ellie's fell out as soon as it did was because she couldn't stop wiggling it.

At dinner I mentioned how their Great Grandma was good at pulling teeth when I was a little girl. Then, their friend Lexy recounted a story of her Dad pulling one of her older sibling’s teeth. Carie and I could totally see where she was going with the story. Her dad tied a string... Yep, you got it. Our kids didn't really comment on it and we quickly moved onto another topic.