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Last week Kate lost her first tooth. She has been waiting forever and suffering through all of the math problems that feature lost teeth. ‘Let’s graph how many teeth each child has lost!’ Poor Kate was always in the zero column.
All of that changed last Monday when Kate came home and pulled out her tooth. It was REALLY loose so I encouraged her to go into the other room (that stuff makes me squeamish!) and start twisting it. Sure enough, three minutes later she came running at me with her prize. Yum! I encouraged her to put the tooth in a baggie because I just knew she would want to show everybody that tooth and it was REALLY small. I also told her that it would be a good idea to leave the tooth at home when she went out to play.
Yep, you guessed it. She lost that same tooth twice on Monday. Once when it came out of her mouth and once when it fell into the grass at the neighbor’s house. (Never to be found again.) Poor Kate was just being seven when she decided to show that tooth to all her friends outside, so there was no ‘I told you so’ coming from me. It wasn’t satisfying at all to be right in that case. You could just tell how angry she was at herself. (The sobbing was a big clue there.)
But she rallied and wrote a note to leave under her pillow for the tooth fairy. When Allen and I saw the first note we explained to Kate that the tooth fairy doesn’t BRING teeth, she TAKES teeth. That led to the revised note on the right. Short and sweet, eh?
The tooth fairy brought Kate two dollars and a pencil case. (Just like her sisters thank you very much!) Kate went to the dentist two days later and got the good news that she has three more loose teeth. Ahhh…three more chances to get this right!