Toothless Wonder

Friday was a big day for K-Girl.

Not an hour after being at school on Friday, I got a call from the school nurse that K-Girl came down to her office complaining that her neck hurt. When she took her temperature it was 100.5 and I needed to go pick her up. I went and picked her up and brought her home. She laid on the couch and her temp went up to 102.5. I gave her some Tylenol and the fever never came back. It was the weirdest thing. But because she wasn't feeling so well I told her that she should go take a nap after lunch when E-Man was napping. She decided that she wasn't taking a nap, but would go for quiet time instead. After being upstairs a while, over the monitor comes shrieking "Momma!!! Momma!!!!!!" so I ran upstairs to find out what was wrong. When I got there her hand was over her mouth and she was in hysterics that her tooth was falling out. I looked at it to see a very bloody mouth. I asked how it happened. She explained that her craft bin wouldn't open so she decided to try to open it with her mouth.

Her tooth had been wiggly for over a month, but nothing was happening with it. It probably would have stayed in there for a while yet, but with the assistance it was coming out then. The back had completely come loose but it was still quite secure in the front. I brought her downstairs and asked her to try to pull it out. Between sobs that she couldn't and it hurt I gave it a try. That was worse. My fingers are too big to get a good hold on the tiny tooth and she quickly told me to stop. I suddenly had an idea - Anbesol! So I went and found some and let her apply a little to the gums around that tooth. Once it started numbing a bit she gave it another try and got the tooth out. By the end of the ordeal, K-Girl was about hyperventilating. It was quite the traumatic experience. After the tooth was out and her breathing returned to normal, she decided that maybe a nap was a good idea after all and asked me to come and nap with her. I wasn't going to pass that opportunity up.

Hopefully the rest of the teeth won't be quite this much of a production. The first should always be memorable though, right?!

After a bit, the excitement started to set in though and she got keyed up about the Tooth Fairy getting to visit her. She was very excited to get to use her tooth fairy friend that I had made for her. (You can get your own tooth fairy friend from my Etsy store, Whimsical Stitches.) She hung it on her door before bed so that the "Tooth Fairy wouldn't bother her". We asked her what she thought the Tooth Fairy might leave in exchange for the tooth. She said "a golden dollar".

When she woke in the morning she was excited to find a "buck" tucked in the pocket replacing her tooth that she had placed in it the night before. I'm glad she wasn't too set on the whole golden dollar thing. Paper was quite alright with her.

I still can't believe that my daughter is big enough to be losing teeth. When did she get so big?!