Loose Tooth

Miss H has always been a late bloomer as far as her teeth go.  She got them in late when she was a baby and now here she is, almost 8, and has yet to lose a tooth. 

She has watched in envy as her friends started showing up to school with big gaps in their smile starting in kindergarten.  Her most fervent wish was to lose a tooth at school because then she would get to go to the office and have her tooth put in a special little box that they have just for that purpose. 

She finally got a loose tooth a few months ago.  She still has that tooth, it’s still wiggly, and two adult teeth are popping up behind her bottom two center baby teeth.   She calls them her Shark Teeth because now she has the two rows of teeth like sharks have.  We went to the dentist to get the situation checked out and the dentist assured us that her tongue would keep pushing the new teeth forward which would, in turn, help the baby teeth come out.  He encouraged Hope to keep wiggling the loose tooth and eat some apple slices or carrot sticks! 

Well, H took him seriously and literally spent the whole next day wiggling her loose tooth.  By the time I picked her up from school the next day the tooth could bend almost the whole way forward.  She could feel the bottom ridge of the tooth with her tongue when she tipped it forward.  She was so hoping the tooth would come out that evening – she really wanted a visit from the Tooth Fairy. 

Miss H confided in me that she was going to write a letter to the Tooth Fairy requesting a pair of Fairy Wings and a map to Fairy World because she would like to be a Tooth Fairy, too.  She started describing how she would shrink so small to fit the pair of wings that the Tooth Fairy would leave and how she would go to school to be a Tooth Fairy.  “Do you want me to ask for two pairs of wings so you can come, too, Mom?” she asks me.  “Cause I’ll probably have to be there a long time if I’m going to school and stuff there in Fairy World.” 

I said I definitely also would like a pair of fairy wings.

It’s funny to me that she knows the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus are not real and yet she still believes that the Tooth Fairy does exist.  Total separation of ideas, I guess.

She tried to get it the rest of the way out but the tooth was feeling stubborn and even trying to pull it out with dental floss didn’t do the trick. 

I’m wondering if maybe the tooth came out at school day or if it’s still hanging in there.  I had bought a special little Tooth Fairy Purse a few weeks ago.  It’s super cute.  It comes with a tiny tooth pocket to put the tooth in under the pillow and then you put the money in the purse and exchange the purse for the tooth pocket. 

I’m going out tonight to pick up some sparkles (fairy dust) and a few trinkets to exchange for that all important “First Lost Tooth”.  I typed up a letter from the Tooth Fairy named “Tabitha” because H mentioned that her friend’s tooth fairy was named Tabitha and she wondered what her Tooth Fairy’s name was.  I guess they have the same one! 

I will sprinkle some sparkles in a trail from the window sill to her pillow (Fairy Dust!) and leave the letter explaining why she can’t be a tooth fairy (she’s much too gifted a human girl and we must bloom where we’re planted).  Should do the trick.  «

She’s gonna love it!!  I’ll post a picture when we get that most-coveted gap.

And here's a picture just for fun....