The problem was she was only 2 1/2. Her nearly 5 year old sister had just lost her wiggly tooth and she really wanted to have one too.
As the years went by her sister went on to lose EIGHT wiggly teeth but she never had a wiggly tooth, even as much as she tried to make it wiggle.
She began to give up on the thought of ever having one of her own. She despaired of ever getting to have a tooth fairy visit and a shiny new coin to put in the piggy bank.
Her friends each started to lose a tooth. Then two teeth. But she still couldn't wiggle a tooth. Mommy and Daddy assured her that someday it would happen to her too.
But finally! at age 5 1/2 she had two teeth that were wiggling!
She tested those teeth every day to see if they were wigglier. She gave a regular report on the status of those teeth. She gave them regular wiggles to make them looser.
Then one day, a few months later, one was wiggly enough to push forward a little with her tongue. The next day at school she was wiggling and one of her friends asked if she needed help taking it out. She declined their offer but accepted the offer of her teacher who popped it right out. The brave little girl, when asked if it hurt, shrugged and said "Not so much."
Hurray!! She has joined the ranks of the toothless kindergardners and first graders the world over. She gets to keep her tooth in the cute little tooth shaped box the school gave her and then leave it by her bed for the tooth fairy to trade for a shiny coin.
The wait is on for wiggly tooth number two....... and little 3 year old sister is already inspecting her mouth for a wiggly tooth......
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I think my 2nd grader purposely waited until school hours to lose her teeth because she so loved those little tooth shaped boxes. They are so cute at this stage in a jack o lantern sort of way.
wow I can't believe how big your girls are getting wow that oldest one seems like yesterday i remember her popping out...........and don't this RN mommy has done the same thing with broken bones, with boys we make twice as many trips to the ER, finally when my son broke his finger at 9 in the morning at school and didn't tell me til 4pm cause he didn't want to miss school and have to take his calculus final i told him then he could wait until we the doctors office was open cause I just came from the hospital and the ER was busy if it is broken today it will be broken tomorrow and it was.......
Hey no pressure, but do we need to send a rescue team south? Has spring drug you outside and not let you sit down for a minute at the ol blog? I know the feeling it is beautiful here too!
MEH - yep. very cute.
Becky - RN's make the craziest mothers! Glad to see you here. Stop by again soon!
Lara - Thanks for checking in and keeping me alive here. It is certainly beautiful around here but it has really been more the impending rush toward the end of the school year that has kept me away.
I dread the wiggly teeth. Gene will have to deal with that...something about it makes me QUEASY!
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