A Gap

Lucy has had to hear about so many friends and family loosing teeth.  One time when I told her someone lost a tooth she started to cry and tell me it just wasn't fair that she hadn't lost any! She is much older then most of the kids losing teeth and so it really just doesn't seem fair to her.  We were sitting down to have lunch a little over a week ago (12-28-2012) and Lucy told me her tooth hurt.  I wasn't sure if she was just thinking something was wrong or if there really was.  I asked her to show me which ones hurt and she said her 2 bottom teeth.  I felt them and sure enough her 2 bottom teeth were loose! She was so excited and got tears in her eyes.  Sweet Lucy, her day had finally come! I told her to start wiggling them so they would get more and more loose.  She did just that.  She always had her hands in her mouth giving those teeth a nice wiggle. She would spend lots of time looking in the bathroom mirror while she wiggled it.  

That night we read the Tooth Fairy book that the kids got for Christmas.  It is a really cute book about a girl who looses her tooth.  She writes a couple of notes back and forth with the tooth fairy.  Lucy thought it would be fun to write a couple of notes to the tooth fairy letting her know her tooth was loose.  It was fun for her to get excited about this fun step in life.

 She wasn't being very aggressive since it hurt to really push on them.  One tooth was really loose and I was sure it would come out any day.  I helped her give it a good wiggle a couple times and she didn't really care for our help since we were to aggressive.  She didn't like that it was bleeding a little.   She saw on America's Funniest Home Videos some kids who tied string to their teeth and pulled it out like that.  She wanted to do that.  We tried it a couple times and it was really tricky since the tooth was so small.  JJ even bribed her with a couple dollars to just pull it out.  Finally one night we just said, it has to come out! It was hanging by a thread.  We tried the sting again and it was tricky, you would get it tied really good on the tooth and it would be hard to try to attach it to a door handle.  Finally when we had it really good around the tooth JJ just yanked it out when she wasn't paying attention.  Her tooth came right out! (on 1-2-13)  She was so excited! She was happy that she would be able to go to school the next day and tell all her friends she lost a tooth.  What a fun way to end her winter break.  She was able to go to school and be the first name in the month of January on the poster they have in the classroom.  She also thinks it is fun to put her straw through the little gap in her teeth. Now just onto the other tooth.