First Tooth

Lily has had a loose tooth for a few weeks, but she’s been terrified of us touching it. She would yell if we ever tried to wiggle it. (She has no pain tolerance – she gets that from me.) All we were allowed to do is touch it ever so gently.

Last Friday, her tooth was so wiggly! I knew it would fall out soon.

As we were waiting for the school bus, Lily and Zeke ran up a little hill to play (like they always do). Within a few seconds, Lily exclaimed, “My tooth came out!” Sure enough, it had. She was so excited! But she was bleeding and the bus was about to come. We quickly ran back to our house to grab some tissue for her, and made it just in time to snap a picture and board the school bus.

Naturally, all her Kindergarten friends were very excited for her. They crowded around her at school asking to see where the tooth fell out. Lily is so shy, the extra attention was more than she could bare. Luckily, the student teacher in her class saw Lily’s discomfort and shooed the kids back to their seats.

I normally have a roll of quarters on hand. I use them to pay Lily for setting the table for dinner and doing other chores around the house. But this happened to be the week I ran out of quarters, and Scott had taken the car to work. I couldn’t be lame and not give her money the first night she lost her first tooth. I texted Scott and told him I needed him to pick up a roll of quarters from the bank on his way home.

That night, Lily’s two best friends came for a sleep over. Eva also had a very loose tooth. When she saw that Lily lost her tooth, she wanted to loose her tooth the same day. Unlike Lily, Eva is fearless and isn’t bothered by pain. She wiggled her tooth, she had her mom wiggle her tooth, and even consented to have her mom pull her tooth out. The girls were so happy!

Scott’s family has a tradition that you put your tooth in a special glass of water on the dining room table at night. In the morning, the glass is filled with coins. (That’s a lot better tradition than trying to sneak into a kids room, not wake them, and slip money under their pillow.) We gave each girl a different glass, so we could tell them apart. We also set out empty glasses for Cora and Zeke, for being so supportive.(Cora and Zeke had chocolate in their glasses in the morning.)

There wasn’t a lot of sleep that went on that night. There was a lot of giggling and chatting.