Bye Bye Tooth Fairy!

The famous nighttime visitor, the tooth fairy has left the building. She made her very last visit to our house the other night.  Q finally lost her last baby tooth.  If she wasn't Q, she probably could have lost it a month ago!  The darn tooth was hanging by who knows what for the past 6 weeks...I don't know how it stayed in there so long...The adult tooth was growing up right under it!

I kept warning her that the dentist would insist on pulling it if she didn't get it out herself.  I tried to put the fear of fillings, cavities, needles...anything to get her to pull the darn thing.

I even tried to pull it...but I'm too squeamish for it and couldn't get a good grip on it.  So instead, I called DD over to the couch.  It was the night before her ortho appointment and time to get the darn thing out.  And what do you know? POP! Right off, he got it out.  Did you hear a yell the other night?  I think it registered about a 4.2 on the richter scale.  It wasn't because it hurt.  It was because she tasted the blood :-)  So funny!

Where did our babies go?  It's kind of weird now to think that we are done with the tooth fairy.  But it was time. The darn tooth fairy was having trouble remembering to leave the money on the first night lately.  And it's probably a good thing that she won't be back because she left $8 this time!  I'm not sure what he...ooh I mean she....meant by leaving such a steep payment.  Setting the bar high isn't 'she'?  She is going to have to get another part time job to keep up with that payment schedule!  Thank heavens it was the last one!

CC lost her last one last summer  at age 9.  She is an overachiever that way...of course she had a bit of help in losing a couple of her teeth due to her last (yes, she's had more than one) bike crash.  I think she lost 3 baby teeth and one adult tooth in that crash!  But that's a story for another day because it's getting late tonight.