11th December 2007

Fairy gelt

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The tooth is out.  I was in the kitchen with OmegaGranny and OmegaUnk, chit-chatting, and I heard the dotter calling out, "Mom!  MOM!"  Now, she tends to holler out in excitement for a variety of things, none of which I tend to think are important, and if we don’t HOP when she calls, she goes into conniptions, which irritates me no end.

So, mentally rolling my eyes, I was about to call out, "Girl, what’s wrong?  Why can’t you come here and tell me?!" when she darts into the kitchen and shouts, "It’s out!  It’s out!  My tooth!  Here it is!" and she held out a teeny tiny barely visible white thing.  And then we had to stuff her mouth with paper towel until the bleeding stopped, but for once she was so excited and interested that the Sight Of Blood didn’t bother her one little bit.

So the Tooth Fairy will have to visit Grandma Julie’s house.  Luckily, a hurried run to the bank on Saturday had resulted in one (1) Sacajawea dollar, carefully stashed in Grandma Julie’s purse for the big event.

We’ve told the dotter that the Tooth Fairy is quite shy, doesn’t like being seen, and may just not visit if she knows that the dotter is going to be sneakily trying to catch her in the act.

Oy.  My baby is growing up.  Wah!

If you look closely at the pic up above, you will see the new adult tooth already well on its way.  It’s much wider.  If the dotter actually does end up with the same number of adult teeth–I’m informed that this is normally the way that it works ;-) –it looks like we’ll have some orthodontial work ahead of us.

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There are currently 5 responses to “Fairy gelt”

  1. 1 On December 11th, 2007, lizard said:

    oh, my! I believe that OD is about 6-9 months older than E, and I cannot imagine that we could be toothless that soon. I was talking to the dentist today, and I proclaimed that I might just be ready in another year.

    She looks so grown up there, OD, with her toothless grin! It cracks me up, how huge their new teeth look for a few years, until their heads grow into them.

    Good thing the tooth fairy remembers where OD is. How exciting!

  2. 2 On December 11th, 2007, Theresa said:

    Oh my-between your last post and this one I am getting all weepy. I’ll probably cry buckets when dd loses her first tooth. And that space in OD’s mouth-that is where dd had her one and only tooth when we met her almost 5 years ago-and dh thought I was nuts in China when I said I didn’t want her to get any more teeth because she wouldn’t be as cute as she was then. Where has the time gone!?!

    Still I know OD must be overjoyed-congrats to her!

  3. 3 On December 12th, 2007, D said:

    Yeah Dotter! Smart move on getting the dollar coin!

    Good thing we have a while to go before that happens… but they all grow up so quickly…

  4. 4 On December 12th, 2007, Elaine said:

    oh yes. Our girl lost her first and second teeth in the last month AND she’s been home for 5 years.
    there’s lots of weeping here too. Where did the years go?

  5. 5 On December 13th, 2007, Miss Cellania said:

    I love the picture. I love all snaggly, missing-teeth pictures of little kids. Big teeth does not automatically mean orthodontia- her head may grow just right before the teeth are all in. Yeah, that’s a view through rose-colored glasses. I have TWO kids that need braces!

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