her tooth

so after all the excitement of mikey's first lost tooth, i thought we'd have a nice, YEARS-long break before the next one would lose her first tooth.  *insert inward sigh of relief*  having had four kids now, i can deal with a lot of gross things.  and i mean a lot.  pee, poop, boogers, vomit, blood, you name it, i handle it.  but there is something about a jingly, jangly tooth that i simply cannot, CANNOT stomach.  i simply cannot look at a wiggly tooth without feeling instantly queasy and wanting to run far, far away from the offending tooth.

but i of course can't let my kids know of this weird quirk of mine.  so i always very carefully avoid looking directly at the tooth they want to show me and calmly tell them that it's still got a little ways to go and that we'll wait for daddy to come home before doing anything.

thank heaven for daddy is all i gotta say about that.

so yes, a looong break from falling out teeth was more than welcome in my book.

but it was not to be with mikey losing several more teeth with what can only be called alarming regularity and then...

my little allie went and lost her first tooth on leap year day!  she'd been rather... enthusiastic about wiggling it around for a few weeks and came up to show me that it was barely hanging on.  no sooner did i say my usual, "let's wait till daddy gets home" bit when suddenly she said, "mommy, look!  it came out!"  and there in her palm lay her little tooth.  she was so pleased and excited and not at all bothered by it (to my huge relief as i was anticipating our sensitive one to be more nervous and freaked out).  so i smothered my own grimaces and willingly took the pictures she wanted.  but i still can't look at the little hole in her gums without a cringe.

she was all aquiver with excitement over finally getting to use her special tooth fairy pillow (it's pink).

and no sooner did i recover from her first tooth falling out, then her second one fell out earlier this month!

she's so pleased about growing up while i keep trying to slow 'em all down.  what's their rush, anyway?