An Early Visit From the Tooth Fairy

Well....we had a bit of a shock last night when I was drying Kelly off after her bath, all of a sudden she starts screaming, "MOM!! WAIT!! MY TOOOOOTH!" I look and see her holding one of her teeth in her hand and blood coming from her mouth!

My brain sorta freaked at first, not understanding exactly what happened... then it kicked in. She had lost her first tooth! But wait...She's only 5! Is that possible? Isn't that way early? It wasn't even LOOSE! We had no warning or lead up into this! Hmmm!???

So all those ponderances are swirling around my head, while I am trying to calm her down. (once she saw the blood, that was a little harder to do!). I reminded her about all the stories we have read about losing teeth and the tooth fairy. That did it, and she immediately lightened up and started to get excited.

We put her tooth in a little pouch and under her pillow all ready for pick-up!

Then she announced, "Mom, I want to go to sleep RIGHT now!" I didn't waste anytime on that, so off to sleep she went! The next morning she was even more excited to find that the tooth fairy had left her a whole $1 dollar! Woo-hoo!

I don't know if she'll lose any more this soon, but we'll be ready if she does!