monday evening i was loading the dishwasher (still a bittersweet thing, but i do love it!), hubby was upstairs, mapboy was on the computer and princess was reading. all of a sudden princess let out a very loud scream. i turned to see her perched on the back of our couch. now, i immedietly see myself 5 years old screaming from the back of our green couch because i had just seen a mouse. and since we have recently caught 3 ourselves, i was a bit freaked out. but being the mommy now, i have to be a big girl. so i go in, fully expecting to see a mouse. instead, i am met with a handful of slobbery air head and "i just cracked my new tooth!!!!" oh she surely didn't do that....
i have her open up, new tooth is still intact, but the air heads have magically wiggled the sliver of baby tooth left behind the new tooth. now, this tooth has slowly been disappearing for about 2 years. yes, truly disappearing. much to my delight and her panic, it was finally coming out.
there were tears, big crocodile tears. there were sobs and words said between the sobs with a rag stuffed in her mouth. oh my!! i held her on my lap and offered to pull it out. now, i honestly don't know what i would have done had she said yes, but i offered. she declined and sobbed some more.
princess had planned on a tuesday afternoon playdate. i needed to call the mom to confirm. i was telling princess this and she said she didn't want the play date!!??! what?? she'd been begging for a good few months. she was "nervous" the tooth would fall out. i told her it would be just fine if it did - even when her friend was here. i sent her upstairs to get ready for bed. princess was determined to keep that tooth in tact!
i called dear friend to confirm play date. we made some small talk and then i hear "my tooth is out! my tooth is out!!!" those were shouts of joy, or freaking out. i hung up abrubtly and ran upstairs to find her spitting in the sink. there was this tiny - i mean tiny sliver of a tooth!!
we wrapped it and placed in our tooth fairy box....all was well, until we took friend home after playdate. can you believe while there she found that there was still part of the tooth in her mouth? it was nice quiet ride home. she just knew if she talked it would come out...
so sitting at the table, while i'm serving supper, princess reaches in, yanks the rest out, hands it to me, and promptly begins talking again...
we opted to not ask the fairy to come back for this piece!
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