Now You See It....Now You Don't

Taylor lost her first tooth tonight. She has had this wiggly tooth for over 2 mos. now. Her 2 bottom adult teeth are coming in behind instead of under her teeth. So there is not much helping her baby teeth come out. A friend of ours, who is a dentist, confirmed to me a few weeks ago what I feared. He said that her bottom teeth would most likely have to

be pulled by a dentist. I felt so bad for Taylor. Who wants their first tooth taken out by a dentist. We didn't tell her this. Instead, we were always telling her to wiggle her tooth. Which leads us to today. After Mason went down for a nap, Taylor wanted to cuddle under the electric blanket and watch a movie. She starts to wiggle her tooth and for over a hour we both have our hands in her mouth. I promise her $5 if she pulls it out and she said "Dad promised me $3. So if you give me $5, Dad gives me $3 and the tooth fairy gives me $1, that's $9." And that was all the motivation that girl needed! Her tooth started moving more and more and at one point it made a little pop noise. She called Steve at work and told him she wanted him to pull it out when he got home. We were upstairs before dinner playing with some of her toys and she starts to play with her tooth again. I grab the video camera and we all congregate in her room. And this is how it all happened.....



That's our girl!